Example sentences of "most important [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For Conservatives the most important expression of party loyalty to the leader .
2 In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude .
3 Then he began to see that friendship and love , shown to our marriage partner , our friends and to God himself , are ultimately the most important dimensions of life .
4 For example , one of the most important functions of cleft and pseudo-cleft structures in English ( discussed under predicated and identifying theme , section 5.1.1.3 ) is to signal information status .
5 And one of the most important functions of information dynamics is precisely to link a sentence to its environment in a manner which allows the information to flow through the text in the desired manner .
6 It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ .
7 However , it is suggested that market share is normally the most important indicator of dominance though not the only factor .
8 For its function in the modern economy was not merely to supply food and raw material in rapidly growing quantities , but also to provide a — indeed the — most important reservoir of labour power for the non-agricultural occupations .
9 The enormous power of the trombones will bring the tune through the whole of the rest of the orchestra , trumpets , percussion , and all , so that the most important problem of balance is immediately solved .
10 A 1982 report to the Toronto Board of Education noted that a sense of identity and self-respect were the most important by-products of teaching heritage languages .
11 Mrs Banham said : ‘ Stephen is going to miss the best part of his first and most important year of school due to illness with ear infections . ’
12 On a par with their conception of social revolution , the FMLN sees taking power in health as a complex process where organized communities rather than individuals are the most important agents of change and empowerment .
13 The most important principles of conduct , which apply to everyone working in the ES , are contained in the following four statements :
14 Kyaw Nyein went along as an Adviser , and Rance also wanted Thakin Nu to go : he was , he told London , ‘ The most important member of AFPFL Working Committee excluding Aung San ’ ( 29 December ) , but he remained behind to give direction to the League while the others were in London .
15 However , in terms of the way modules are stored in LIFESPAN , the most important type of module is the type PACKAGE .
16 In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning .
17 Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’
18 One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate .
19 The most important areas of gallery space , again as apart from state institutions , offered to first impressionists and later to expressionists , were provided by Paul Cassirer .
20 In the artist/booking agent agreement , the most important areas of negotiation are as follows .
21 Some of the most important sources of friction between the marketing department and other departments are as indicated below .
22 For example , Almond cites the bureaucracy as ‘ one of the most important sources of legislation ’ and as dominant in rule-making in non-Western societies ( Almond and Coleman 1960 , p. 17 ) .
23 This is one of the most important sources of water quality problems .
24 The belief that sport was character forming was adopted from the public schools and achievement in sport became one of the most important sources of status in elementary school life …
25 That would wipe out one of the central government 's most important sources of power : control over foreign-currency earnings .
26 Figure 5.19 shows the most important sources of energy and their origins-the Sun , the Earth and the Moon .
27 Coins are one of the most important sources of information from which archaeologists and historians can try to interpret the past .
28 Bibliographies are the most important sources of information for book selection , and a close understanding of their functions is essential — especially for stock revision .
29 These representatives corresponded regularly and sometimes very frequently with the governments for which they acted ; from the early sixteenth century onwards their despatches and reports , preserved in the official archives which were now beginning to be formed , are one of the most important sources of information available to the historian .
30 But close up , to the expert , its the most important finds of iron age coins this century , a mix of bronze , silver and gold .
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