Example sentences of "most [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the administration of production ( ie. the ‘ brain-work ’ ) and the actual supervision of production work are the most widely separated in large-batch and mass production companies ; |
| 2 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 3 | The fifth , sixth and seventh words are the most widely favoured for deletion . |
| 4 | Radio Renacena is the most widely listened to station in Portugal . |
| 5 | They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) . |
| 6 | Pitot tubes have been most widely used in air , where they can measure speeds from about 1 m s -1 upwards . |
| 7 | Where an estimate of probability has to rely on human judgement and experience , this is called subjective probability , and is the most widely used in business situations . |
| 8 | But the Board now asks the general assembly to look again at this part of our remit and to form a judgment about where this work should be most effectively done in future . |
| 9 | Small groups of objects can sometimes be most effectively used in problem solving activities . |
| 10 | The extent of the revolution is most strikingly illustrated by comparison of Giovanni Gabrieli 's two settings of ‘ O Jesu mi dulcissime ’ : in his First Book of Sacrae Symphoniae ( 1597 ) and in his Second Book ( posthumously published in 1615 ) . |
| 11 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 12 | This is true , to a lesser extent , of all forms of imaginative writing , but poetry is the most obviously governed by convention and genre , and in the eyes of both the Russian Formalists and of non-literary readers the most likely to display linguistic deformation . |
| 13 | There have been differences of opinion as to how such matters should be most advantageously introduced to school children , and some have argued that the " library period " where children systematically practise " library skills " , in isolation from any other work they may also be doing , is a mistake . |
| 14 | Well I mean all , all I know in that at the moment is that I , I 'd I would be most naturally drawn to youth , I would have thought . |
| 15 | Early mouse embryos and their component cells are most easily manipulated during fixation and immunocytological staining if stuck down to coverslips . |
| 16 | Small panels of bold , simple very low relief are perhaps most easily carved by hand , but on other work time savings of over 90 per cent can be achieved ; 75 per cent is a reasonable average . |
| 17 | Petrological observations show excess feldspar in many basaltic lavas which is most easily explained by crystal settling . |
| 18 | Brown and white , with long yellow legs ; most easily recognised in flight , which reveals pure white rump and tail and strikingly black and white wing pattern . |
| 19 | Should you wish to discuss this with me I may be most easily reached via telephone . |
| 20 | A number of parties took place during the race week , including a very good champagne reception most generously given by Mot et Chandon at the very comfortable four star Hôtel le Manège , which reopened in December under a dynamic new young management . |
| 21 | Although light and convenient , plastic is one of the most environmentally damaging of packaging materials . |
| 22 | Experiments in pure horse pregnancies would also be rewarding , because one could relate the rate of abortion to the degree of similarity in parental HLA antigens ; the group of antigens most critically associated with rejection . |
| 23 | Those most generally used in wind orchestras are the alto in E flat , tenor in B flat , and baritone in E flat . |
| 24 | The modern paradox , that the areas of Yugoslavia which are most richly endowed with mineral resources and other industrial raw materials are the least economically developed , can only be understood in the context of the long centuries of neglect from which Yugoslavia south of the Danube-Sava line suffered during the Ottoman period . |
| 25 | ‘ Political Leaders ’ in the localities , and especially the Block and Cell Leaders ( that is , those who most directly came into contact with ordinary citizens and most plainly encountered popular feeling ) , were , the report stated , suffering from the fact that ‘ their work was not properly appreciated and acknowledged either by people 's comrades or by superior Party offices ’ . |
| 26 | For me this is most directly related to homework . ’ |
| 27 | The old Tominahs say that this crescent-moon shape means the bottom arc of a great vertical circle of our lives — the section at which we are all most deeply plunged into matter . |
| 28 | Although once most usually seen in winter , nearly all records since 1938 have been of passage birds at the coast . |
| 29 | The break with the past is most clearly seen in Figure 4.2 . |
| 30 | Even so , a process of gradual denial creeps into Ealing 's output , most clearly represented in Train of Events ( 1949 ) , a film that brings together many of the characters who people post-war movies , only to kill them off or put a stop on their moral infractions . |