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

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1 One of the most controversial areas of intervention by these new-style Labour councils was Equal Opportunities .
2 Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch .
3 This is , without doubt , the most controversial aspect of food sensitivity .
4 Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes .
5 The RUC was excluded from policy making on security and even most administrative decisions of consequence .
6 I suspect that sea kayaking will go the way of inland touring , namely that modifications to design and materials will negate the most telling criticisms of plastic , and then its obvious advantage in durability will vastly outweigh its remaining disadvantages ( except for competitions and long open sea crossings ) .
7 For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ .
8 The most telling indicator of Railfreight 's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance .
9 Perhaps the most telling measure of performance comes from a straight comparison with the R25 V6 .
10 It is produced from raw beef liver , and once in its dried form is one of the most concentrated forms of food available .
11 Eleonora herself is the most the most concentrated depiction of evil in Leapor 's writings , an interesting point which unfortunately is missed by Donna Landry .
12 For example , some of the most memorable features of fieldwork in the Old World Tropics from Madagascar eastwards , leeches , are so little known that their behaviour towards animals other than humans is unrecorded .
13 But somehow it was the Celtic team of the '70s and particularly their manager Jock Stein and his Italian darling Lou Macari who fashioned the most memorable images of betting .
14 In all the cases I have encountered , despite strenuous efforts to cure it , the latter is unfortunately the most usual course of action .
15 The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com
16 The most usual mode of transmission of type I herpes is kissing , and following exposure a susceptible individual will develop a crop of blisters ( vesicles ) on the lips after about four days .
17 The most usual area of difficulty is in relation to leasehold properties .
18 The most usual form of enforcement is the issue of a writ of fieri facias ( fi .
19 The most usual method of calculation is to determine the net profit of the business ensuring that this amount is the amount of pre-tax and pre proprietor drawings and pre interest charges .
20 The pulpit was marvellously restored restored to its former glory and is further evidence that the powers of creation can surmount even the most destructive forces of mankind .
21 The appearance of MPG Note 3 in 1988 sought to strengthen this approach , pushing resolution of the inherent conflict between opencasting and the environment in favour of this most destructive form of development .
22 Nevertheless , contemporaries realised that the tradition which made foreign policy one of the most arcane aspects of government was being breached : a well-informed former diplomat noted that the laying of so much diplomatic correspondence before parliament was a " sort of new habit " .
23 Nonetheless , the Senegalese system has dealt with the succession problem impressively , and sustained a multi-party tradition which allows a wide range of opinion to be expressed in public , and in doing so has avoided the most acute problems of localism .
24 But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers .
25 But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers .
26 As a doctor , Brian realised that his wife 's mother had evidently suffered from the most acute form of agoraphobia .
27 There is in these travel journals a movement towards the recognition that the most acute form of nostalgia is that which , in evoking the past as lost fullness , then faces it with the knowledge that the restless incompleteness felt so acutely now , in the present , was also a part of the imaginary fullness then ; the truthfulness which aims to allay nostalgia only intensifies it .
28 It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science .
29 The most obvious evidence of this warfare was reflected in buildings , such as Coldingham Priory , one of the most rebuilt places of worship in the Borders , the ownership of which was hotly disputed for centuries .
30 Primary schools are pioneering the most far-reaching shake-up of education in living memory .
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