Example sentences of "be the commonest " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of neonatal eye infection used to be the commonest cause of childhood blindness , but is now comparatively rare in civilized countries . |
| 2 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
| 3 | For patients in surgical wards , fear of the unknown and anticipation of unfamiliar and possibly painful procedures will probably be the commonest causes of anxiety . |
| 4 | British industry is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few producers , and oligopoly seems to be the commonest market |
| 5 | This is considered to be the commonest cause of chronic primary intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 6 | Corrosive ingestion , especially of acids , is a very common causeof oesophageal injury and strictures in India ; and was reported to be the commonest aetiology in one study . |