Example sentences of "most [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has changed and not changed : hatred is after all most annoying and cognisance is a very quaint affair ’ ( 14 ) . |
| 2 | The group seems to have been given only the most broad and general of aims . |
| 3 | In particular , most metalinguistic and comprehension tasks are examples of what Margaret Donaldson ( 1978 ) refers to as ‘ disembedded tasks ’ , and as such are likely to prove difficult for young children . |
| 4 | In the Acts of Thomas , there is the following quotation : ‘ Twin brother of Christ , apostle of the Most High and fellow initiate into the hidden word of Christ , who dost receive his secret sayings … ’ |
| 5 | Gedda is at his most genial and liquid , while Sénéchal is artfully characterful with some of the spicier songs . |
| 6 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 7 | Only the most daring and expert are now allowed to attempt the journey . |
| 8 | Then he said : ‘ I hope I am not trespassing over a duty ascribed to someone else present here , but then I had heard no proposals for anyone to give a toast in thanks to our host , the most honourable and kind Lord Darlington . ’ |
| 9 | The most simple and primitive in contemporary use , these looms have changed little since their inception several millennia ago ; they consist of four wooden beams which are laid out flat and secured by pegs driven into the ground . |
| 10 | We offer a free consultancy service to advise on the most appropriate and cost effective ways of meeting your money transmission needs . |
| 11 | This solution , which he regarded as amongst the most valuable and characteristic of all his works ( Hume 1981 p 165 ) and which had originally been suggested to him by his brother as the plan for a large house to be occupied by workmen ( Stephen , 1900 p 201 ) , he published in pamphlets entitled Panopticon or the Inspection House and Panopticon Postscripts Parts 1 and 11 . |
| 12 | Furthermore , most 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin dose schedules have a high incidence of severe gastrointestinal side effects and may thus interfere with the patients ' quality of life , one of the most important aspects to be considered in palliative treatment . |
| 13 | At the end of 1986 , John Peel described that year 's Festive 50 — his audience 's annual poll of favourite records — as the most staid and conservative since 1975 , the nadir of progressive rock . |
| 14 | Although this is linked to their supposedly oriental appearance , the term evokes a sense of fear and loathing which conveys a grossly false impression of some of the most affectionate and kind people present in our society . |
| 15 | The image is of an aggressive radical tilting against many of the most powerful and conservative ( even Tory ) interests in British society . |
| 16 | Even in Leeds , occasionally suggested as one of the most powerful and well-organized of fascist centres , there were actually only 100 to 200 fascists . |
| 17 | if Central South had been running twenty five years ago our sport would have been dominated by the name of one man … jockey Terry Biddlecombe one of Gloucestershire 's most famous and favourite of sporting sons … |
| 18 | These were the most savage and primitive of a generally savage race . |
| 19 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |
| 20 | In the five years between 1982-87 Third World countries as a group , including the most impoverished and crisis-ridden in Africa , sent us $220 billion more than we sent them 3 ( see box ) . |
| 21 | The old Nurburgring was one of the most notorious and testing of racing circuits . |
| 22 | For the fourth time of asking , what will be the impact on 15 Para of the change from battalion to company status , where will the battallion headquarters be , why is it being taken out of Scotland , and , at a time when the Secretary of State says that flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain 's Army , why are we making major reductions in a force which is the most flexible and mobile in the British Army ? |
| 23 | If Muldowney 's is the most adventurous and forward-looking , Holloway 's is the one I feel I can take to my heart . |
| 24 | EDWARD Bawden , one of the most prolific and perfectionist graphic artists of the century , has died aged 86 . |
| 25 | The most expansive and forward-looking of the three is the last in D , with its tragic minor-key slow movement . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most mysterious and complex of all navigational feats begins in the Sargasso Sea , that near-stagnant patch of warm water in the western Atlantic between Bermuda and the West Indies . |
| 27 | Unfortunately for the Dwarfs and for the Empire the reigning Emperor was Dieter IV , the Elector Count of Stirland , perhaps the most ineffective and self serving individual ever to sit upon the Imperial throne . |
| 28 | I wish to rely on a model , both elegant and simple , expounded by a philosopher , Alan Tormey ( 1971 ) , which seems to be not entirely incompatible with most aesthetic and performance theories . |
| 29 | It is therefore not surprising to find the most nomadic and village groups produce predominantly geometric schemes , while the more sophisticated workshop groups of the major urban centres tend to show off their skills by weaving sensuous , curvilinear schemes . |
| 30 | Another of the Tractarian poets , Isaac Williams , reflected pathetically on visiting Ken 's tomb , whilst a similar visit by Richard Monckton Milnes , the future Man of Letters Lord Houghton , produced a poem exceeding Ken at his most bathetic and beginning , |