Example sentences of "most [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 " . |
| 32 | The Starrs — who met when Sandie , 38 , was a dancer in Freddie 's show — were said to have one of the most solid marriages in showbusiness . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | As a doctor , Brian realised that his wife 's mother had evidently suffered from the most acute form of agoraphobia . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Primary schools are pioneering the most far-reaching shake-up of education in living memory . |
| 41 | Third and more important , the most outstanding fact about Marxism in the modern world is its almost total failure in economic and political terms . |
| 42 | Thus hemisphere imbalance again fits the data well , since the most outstanding disorder of language in schizophrenia is a reduced ability to convey intended meaning , while phonemes and syntax are largely undisturbed . |
| 43 | The most outstanding collection of faience from the Minoan period is the one that was found in the Temple Repositories in the West Wing at Knossos , where cult vases , plaques , and the famous Snake Goddess statuettes were all treated in this way . |
| 44 | Further north the impact of urbanization again began to be seen as a positive stimulus to growth , leading Champion ( 1987 ) to conclude that the most outstanding aspect of population change there was the strong upward shift recorded by the main conurbation areas , with the metropolitan counties of the West Midlands , Merseyside , Greater Manchester , Tyne and Wear , and Strathclyde registering the strongest improvements . |
| 45 | THIS is the most outstanding area of life for you in 1993 . |
| 46 | Tithonus ' most emphatic pleading for death takes place in the last stanza . |
| 47 | First people have to start hiding from themselves , because that is where the hardest and most persistent voice of criticism is coming from . |
| 48 | The use of the penal law against workers , especially when it involves imprisonment , or the possibility of imprisonment , is one of the most persistent sources of conflict between labour and management , and between labour and governments . |
| 49 | All but the most persistent kinds of pollution ( now increasingly rare ) are ephemeral and mobile . |
| 50 | On pricing , the conclusions which could be generally agreed were so flabby and meaningless that they might have made even the most brazen practitioner of newspeak blush . |
| 51 | One of the greatest love stories of all time and amongst the most enthralling romances in literature — JANE EYRE is compulsive entertainment for both those who know the story and for those to whom it is unfamiliar . |
| 52 | With its exotic sights , sounds and smells , this was the most alluring city in South-East Asia . |
| 53 | His pity , to him the most selfless kind of love , had produced hatred . |
| 54 | These trends are likely to persist within the next five years , and necessitate a continuous review of the IT market-place , and mechanisms to ensure that Garden staff are using the most cost-effective IT in pursuit of Garden priorities . |
| 55 | The successful development of negotiating skills has proved itself as one of the most cost-effective investments in company profitability . |
| 56 | b Day patients and outpatients were not included in the calculation although this may be the most cost-effective form of treatment . |
| 57 | Until recently we have pursued an expansionary policy , investing through the recession and financing our investment by borrowing — for BP the most cost-effective form of funding . |
| 58 | Somehow he 's managed to lead one of the most entrenched examples of playsafe rock consensus ‘ forward ’ into apparently digging music that sounds just like Con Funk Shun , Rah Band , Loose Ends . |
| 59 | Mr Vallance said the most innovative approaches to home banking using telecommunications that he had come across anywhere were the different approaches of the Bank of Scotland the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 60 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |