Example sentences of "the [noun pl] ' most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detractors of Gilbert & George will find their usual ammunition but the series is the artists ' most arresting set of images since ‘ The Believing World ’ of 1984 . |
| 2 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 3 | Indeed , one of the researchers ' most important tasks is to ascertain for my benefit what kind of conversation we 'll be likely to have — whether the guest talks nineteen to the dozen , in which case I 'll need to prepare lots of questions , or if they take ten minutes to say ‘ Good evening ’ — in which case I 'll start praying . |
| 4 | But the Communists ' most dramatic political intervention was the Second Front Campaign . |
| 5 | According to some , code-breaking was one of the allies ' most important weapons . |
| 6 | So a colourful still life seemed a suitable choice of subject for an exploration of the pastels ' most obvious potential . |
| 7 | Mr Wilson , whose daughter Marie died in the IRA 's 1987 Remembrance Day blast in Enniskillen , said even the republicans ' most fervent supporters were questioning their campaign . |
| 8 | Quality is improved and costs reduced if the components are designed with the suppliers ' most efficient manufacturing process in mind . |
| 9 | Among the Oratorians ' most celebrated members was John Henry Newman , whose conversion from Anglicanism did much to serve the cause of English Catholicism . |
| 10 | Welcome back : It 's St Patrick 's Day , and one of the regions ' most talented musical families is celebrating with a fantasy voyage into the past . |
| 11 | Not only did the occupiers introduce gin to the island , which remains one of the locals ' most popular drinks , but in 1813 cricket was recorded as having been first played in Menorca by the surgeon of HMS Scipo — a match which received the patronage of Admiral Lord St Vincent , the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet . |
| 12 | General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed and 50 wounded . |
| 13 | General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed . |
| 14 | Reliable domestiques are the stars ' most valued comrades — and by long tradition they share the stars ' winnings . |
| 15 | The courtiers ' most prominent associate there was a draper , Philip Malpas , who had been chosen alderman of Lime Street ward in 1448 only through royal influence . |
| 16 | I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order . |
| 17 | Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses ' most popular form of entertainment . |
| 18 | Iro 's direct running down the wing always looked the tourists ' most promising mode of attack , and on the stroke of the interval , he muscled past three defenders to give the Kiwis a 10-4 half-time lead . |
| 19 | At the centre of the action in Joshua 6 is the ark , the Israelites ' most sacred object of all , the box containing the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments inscribed upon them , the box upon which , so they believed , their God was invisibly enthroned . |
| 20 | The investments are reported at the lower of cost and net current value , the latter based on the enterprises ' most recent accounts . |
| 21 | ‘ The full uncensored story of the Stones ' most notorious desperado . ’ |
| 22 | The temples ' most distinctive common feature was the large rectangular Central Court oriented roughly , but not exactly , north-south and measuring about 45 by 23 metres . |
| 23 | The results were wildly ahead of the Democrats ' most optimistic forecasts . |
| 24 | 1.10 am , Birmingham Selly Oak : Anthony Beaumont-Dark is one of the Tories ' most voluble MPs and if he loses the country will be a quieter place . |
| 25 | Selly Oak is the Tories ' most marginal Birmingham seat . |
| 26 | As the larger chart shows , two of the three issues on which the Tories ' most improved their position between mid-March and Thursday were inflation and taxation — the issues they put at the heart of their propaganda effort . |
| 27 | And the two Express newspapers are the Tories ' most loyal supporters in Fleet Street . |
| 28 | It may well be that the Tories ' most lasting and damaging contribution to the cultural life of the nation will have been their deliberate subjection of Britain 's television companies to the crudest of market forces , which will almost certainly reduce the best programmes in the world to the shoddy idiocies everyone else in Europe and US is fed . |
| 29 | It was from ‘ Land and Liberty ’ that the populists ' most effective organization evolved . |