Example sentences of "most [adj] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 2 | This has always been the most controversial of Toscanini 's NBC opera recordings . |
| 3 | The most acute of Derry 's housing problems was the Springtown Camp . |
| 4 | Lancaster proved himself one of the most outstanding of Edward 's commanders , and he and his men not only covered themselves with glory but also substantially enriched themselves . |
| 5 | And it is this recourse to the Saussurean model which gives rise to the most innovative of structuralism 's extensions of the linguistic analogy : poetics . |
| 6 | One of the most endearing of Russell 's characteristics was his courage . |
| 7 | Drawn largely from the Ecole Polytechnique , the most prestigious of France 's ‘ Grandes Ecoles ’ , the army engineers form a unique and cohesive corps throughout their careers that lead almost inevitably to the highest posts within the Ministry of Defence , the DGA ( Délégation Générale pour l'Armament , created in 1961 ( and , increasingly , to leadership positions throughout the nationalised and private sectors of the arms industry and to important civilian posts as well . |
| 8 | One of the most demanding of Harris 's standard contract terms involves the vendor 's commitment to provide , under escrow if necessary , a copy of the product 's source code with the purchase . |
| 9 | In some ways it is the loftiest , most visionary of Beethoven 's symphonies and as such it needs a visionary to conduct it . |
| 10 | These recits are the most interesting of Guedron 's works ; it was he who was responsible for introducing them in place of spoken dialogue , thereby taking the ballet de cour a significant step nearer to opera , particularly in the Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud ( 1617 ) ( see also p. 322 , n. 44 ) and Ballet du Roy sur L'Adventure de Tancrède en la forest enchantée ( 1619 ) . |
| 11 | The first to come , and one of the most interesting from Pumfrey 's point of view , was Tom Tedder , who sprawled easily in his chair , seemed as little tensed up as it is possible to be when involved in a murder case , and told them all they needed to know about the teachers ' attitude to the school 's star pupil . |
| 12 | Within the past month he has tried re-walking some of the most popular of Wainwright 's routes . |
| 13 | Simon Peter , of course , is the best known and probably the most popular of Jesus 's original entourage — the one whom tradition has established as virtually synonymous with Christianity itself . |
| 14 | Lothlórien has won many hearts , and even the most censorious of Tolkien 's critics have accordingly been ready to grant him the ability to create nice settings . |
| 15 | THAILAND : Phuket is the most developed of Thailand 's islands , with accommodation in all price brackets . |
| 16 | Posted to a large prisoner-of-war camp in Northumberland , his job was to de-Nazify the most fanatical of Hitler 's supporters . |
| 17 | The most colourful of Appenzell 's many processions is the ascent to the mountains , when the cattle are moved up to their summer quarters . |
| 18 | Unlike that of the most vicious of television 's robotic villains , their aim is environmental salvation for the earth . |
| 19 | Along with Northrop and McDonnell Douglas , Grumman is among the most financially-stretched of America 's big defence contractors . |
| 20 | From this perspective Verbivore is the most accessible of Brooke-Rose 's novels since The Middlemen . |
| 21 | Izvestia , the most authoritative of Moscow 's newspapers , used to sell 160,000 copies in Uzbekistan . |
| 22 | Among the most prized of Ackermann 's books are his histories of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and of various famous public schools , his Picturesque Tours in England and many foreign countries , and his illustrations of costume and architecture . |
| 23 | Legasov was one of the most symbolic of Chernobyl 's victims . |
| 24 | Athelstan held up his torch and Cranston looked around this most benighted of God 's acres . |
| 25 | The most likely of Ted 's challengers was Keith Joseph , the most senior ‘ dissident ’ who had been in Ted 's Cabinet . |
| 26 | This danger is most obvious in Landry 's consistent use of the terms ‘ heterosexual union ’ , ‘ heterosexual attachment ’ , and ‘ heterosexual couple ’ , where Leapor 's meaning is simply marriage or married couple . |
| 27 | The arrival of MainLan Version 4 is perhaps the most remarkable of Sage 's hat trick of product enhancements given that UK and European MainLan sales fell some 49% last year ( CI No 2,068 ) and that the Florida operations of MainLan Inc were duly closed . |
| 28 | However , it is Laugharne which is most synonymous with Wales ' most famous 20th century poet and writer , where he simply ‘ stepped off the bus one day and forgot to get on again ’ in the spring of 1938 . |
| 29 | It was his success in mobilizing men , arms , ships , and provisions which was most characteristic of Peter 's reign . |
| 30 | Bukharin was the most sophisticated of Luxemburg 's critics , and in the process of writing his critique of her work he developed a more refined version of Marxist accumulation theory than had obtained hitherto . |