Example sentences of "most [adj] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 2 | THERE was an amusing television programme last week called BOFTY — Bore of the Year — which meted out awards to those most guilty of pretentiousness , rudeness , ubiquity and any other media excess as decided by the satirical magazine , Private Eye . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most are woven on woollen warps and wefts ( p.20 ) — not the most stable of foundation materials — and consequently tend to lose their shape . |
| 5 | And as a not-particularly-modest Squidgey told her friend in that most revealing of telephone calls , you have to have been to Hell and back yourself to know how to behave nicely with the dying . |
| 6 | Her mother , although distressed , was still far too much under her husband 's thumb to give her daughter any but the most covert of support . |
| 7 | He made it , too , taking over against Pakistan in 1982 for one match when Willis was injured — and , given the most toothless of bowling attacks , losing heavily . |
| 8 | His Encyclopaedia , though devoted to the cottage , farm , and villa , is nevertheless intended to contain ‘ all that is essentially requisite for health , comfort and convenience , to even the most luxurious of mankind ’ . |
| 9 | It shows Christianity beside the most primitive of humanity and slashes a raw strength into the London lounge . |
| 10 | Although Port-au-Prince was under fire from the oldest and most primitive of artillery pieces , which were so ill-preserved as to be as dangerous to their operators as to their targets , the effect was still terrifying to the populace , who were unused to the banshee wail that echoed overhead and preceded bone-crushing explosive impacts . |
| 11 | Another theory concerning the relationships of the Recent taxa suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes , implying that hagfishes are the most primitive of craniate animals ( Fig. 2B , a ) . |
| 12 | There are full details of this most acceptable of Christmas presents on page 146 |
| 13 | In Sardinia dining is about excellence from start to finish and even the most demanding of gourmet will be well satisfied by the choice and quality . |
| 14 | For those who cut their climbing teeth on this most demanding of rock types , the eastern edges of the Peak District will always retain a magical aura . |
| 15 | They decided that the undercover plotters would be most afraid of publicity and political pressure and that their best hope would be to find an influential member of parliament who would believe their story . |
| 16 | How much had the Mani changed since Leigh Fermor , that most distinguished of scholar gypsies , explored it in the late 1950s ? |
| 17 | We produced a short series of 15 minute programmes featuring Bert Peachell and his String Quartet , which had a good reception , albeit string quartets are not the most popular of radio fare . |
| 18 | The wide availability of Cervelat in supermarkets and delicatessens makes it one of the most popular of charcuterie products and one that will not offend even the most conservative of palates . |
| 19 | Part of this was a hang over from the days of live Television , but even as the Fifties turned into the Sixties , and prerecording came into the limelight , the cost and cumbersome nature of videotape ruled out all but the most rudimentary of editing . |
| 20 | The Bank is among the most rigorous of banking regulators when it comes to analysing and evaluating risk . |
| 21 | As for the treatment of those unfortunate enough to contract the disease , let them choose whichever approach seems to hem the most expressive of reason . " |
| 22 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |
| 23 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |
| 24 | Hello there … this week we 've come to France to the town of Chalon sur Soane for one of the most dramatic one of of the most dangerous of summer sports … that 's powerboating … |
| 25 | But in 10 short years at the turn of the century all this changed and the ‘ common , innocent , friendly ’ house fly was subjected to the most vicious of character assassinations . |
| 26 | Unlike that of the most vicious of television 's robotic villains , their aim is environmental salvation for the earth . |
| 27 | Until recently it was Chinese Americans who were the most feared of poker immigrants — above all Johnny Chan , back-to-back world champ in 1988-'89 , known as the ‘ Oriental Express ’ because he rakes in so many pots so fast . |
| 28 | Very few of the houses burgled had even the most simple of security devices fitted . |
| 29 | These survivors , and their many descendants , provide us with one of the most versatile of tree fruits . |
| 30 | Things do , of course , indeed they seem to succumb to The Second Law of Thermodynamics at a rate that must occasionally surprise even the most paranoid of entropy theorists . |