Example sentences of "most [adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deceased loved one would have been left for all to come and see , and grieve over , and most importantly to say goodbye to . |
| 2 | While 5.5mm is the most widely adopted diameter for arrows , it is by no means the only thickness . |
| 3 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 4 | Equally , the UK was bound to lose its leadership in relatively simple labour-intensive industries like textiles ; this is the most widely spread industry in the world ( Dicken , 1986 ) , and a vital element of Third World employment . |
| 5 | It centres on the quantitative sense of ‘ popular ’ , proposing ‘ to deal with the pieces which are demonstrably the most popular items of ‘ popular music ’ , with the most widely disseminated items of music disseminated in the mass media' ( Hamm 1982 : 5 ; see also Hamm 1979 : xvii–xxii ; 1982 , passim ) . |
| 6 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 7 | In 1895 the apple was introduced to the trade as a ‘ Delicious ’ and became one of the most widely grown apples in the world . |
| 8 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 9 | The Ham & High ( which has covered elections since 1860 ) is the most widely read newspaper in the constituency . |
| 10 | I have a 1920 's edition of Wells , published by Collins , which tags him — The most widely read author in the world ’ . |
| 11 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 12 | First , the state arguably has the most widely diversified portfolio of any shareholder.8 Hence the state , if anything can , should be classed as risk-neutral . |
| 13 | The relationship between linguistics and literature has been one of the most widely discussed issues in modern literary theory . |
| 14 | Hyacinths , narcissi , crocuses and certain types of tulips are the most widely planted bulbs for indoor displays . |
| 15 | Despite a great deal of recent literature on the subject , Henry Manne 's 1966 book remains the most thorough , and most widely quoted statement of the case against prohibiting insider dealing . |
| 16 | The most widely quoted example of the use of this method is Euclid 's Elements ( c. 300 BC ) i which the author supposedly sought to give a consistent foundation to geometry . |
| 17 | Once established as the most widely spoken language in the community , the Creole would soon supersede African languages for most functions except , perhaps , religious ones . |
| 18 | The most widely held reason for the decline in Keynesianism was its supposed inability to explain the historically high rates of inflation which occurred in Europe and North America from the late 1960s onwards . |
| 19 | Most market makers also display prices for the most widely traded stocks on screen on SEAQ . |
| 20 | The most widely reported feature of his speech was the proposal to repeal a 35-year-old law outlawing the Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist Leninist ( CPP-ML ) and similar organizations , and to institute a sweeping amnesty . |
| 21 | In the most widely reported incidents of this nature ( i ) a group calling itself " White Wolves " on July 4 claimed responsibility for a bomb attack outside the offices of Vrye Weekblad , a radical Afrikaans newspaper ; ( ii ) a bomb attack during the rush-hour on July 6 injured 27 people at a Johannesburg bus station much used by commuters from the townships ; and ( iii ) NP offices in Bloemfontein were extensively damaged on July 22 by a bomb , the latest in a series of attacks on NP offices . |
| 22 | The six-member jury ( composed of four women and two men ) deliberated for 77 minutes before concluding in Smith 's favour and thereby ending one of the most widely reported trials in US history . |
| 23 | Syntax has been one of the most widely investigated areas of linguistics and human processing of language has been intensively studied . |
| 24 | That riots and local socialism were both found in the most acutely stressed parts of the country is no accident . |
| 25 | The circumstances leading to Darwin 's discovery of the theory of natural selection form one of the most intensively studied areas of the history of science . |
| 26 | At the time this was perhaps the most lavishly equipped school of its kind in the UK ( though there were many more lavish examples still in the richer areas of the USA ) but its strength was to be the participation of its library resource centre personnel and the head of resources in the in-service education of the teachers . |
| 27 | It is note-worthy that of all Charles 's ministers the one who most forcibly asserted rights of this kind , Pedro Rodriquez Campomanes , was also the one least influenced by ‘ enlightened ’ ideas , which in Spain were very much a foreign , overwhelmingly French , import . |
| 28 | In this respect they were typical of most industrially employed women in Scotland at the time ( see Table 6b ) . |
| 29 | Yet it remains one of the most fondly remembered lines in the annals of Advertising . |
| 30 | [ One of the most highly cited papers in ethology is Sir Solly Zuckerman 's study of the behaviour of a baboon colony in London Zoo in 1932 . |