Example sentences of "most common [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One is liquid helium four , which is the standard most common isotope of helium , that 's the stuff that was liquified in nineteen oh eight .
2 New evidence suggests that the most common incidence of asthma and bronchial complaints occur where ozone levels are highest , principally in south-east England .
3 At the level of the household , land-use decisions are often only a sub-sector in a range of income opportunities , and this range has to be fully specified to include the most common forms of income generation since land-use decisions are affected by these other forms .
4 The most common forms of sickle cell disease are sickle cell trait where the abnormal gene is inherited from one parent only had sickle cell anaemia where two copies of the abnormal gene are inherited , one from each parent .
5 Some of the most common forms of ambivalence , of course , are expressed in disavowals such as ‘ Some of my best friends are … ’ , or ‘ You [ some ] are all right , it 's the rest … ’ .
6 Extensive practice in all the most common forms of letter writing .
7 A NEW vaccine to protect babies and children from one of the most common forms of meningitis is available from today .
8 A NEW jab available in the autumn could wipe out one of the most common forms of meningitis affecting babies in Britain .
9 One of the most common forms of insider dealing , and probably one of the most difficult to detect and bring to court is the share dealing ring .
10 In Central America , for instance , there are over twenty different words for diarrhoea , one of the most common forms of ill-health among the poor .
11 Designed to give practice in the main functional patterns used in writing the most common forms of business letters .
12 The most common criticism of HARPY is that its approach can not be extended to larger vocabularies and/or more habitable grammars .
13 This alphabetical guide to the most common problems of grammar and vocabulary puts Basic English Usage into a handy format .
14 Verbal abuse and disorder was the most common category of offence followed by pitch invasions or encroachments .
15 The most common way of grouping was to sort the children by ability ( as informally rated by the teacher ) and to make the groups as homogeneous as possible .
16 The most common type of contract in use is the Bill of Quantities which involves pricing the various items of work that the contractors
17 Dog-Shoots-Master is the most common type of incident .
18 While married couples are the most common type amongst the under 75s , women alone are the most common type of household among the over-75 age-group .
19 The most common type of hedge is the written call combined with an investment in the security itself .
20 The in-depth report by Philip Mackie , epidemiologist with Darlington Health Authority , has taken seven months to complete and reveals head injuries and poisoning among the most common type of childhood accident .
21 Nevertheless , Bancroft et al. ( 1977 ) found that more than half the attempters felt they had needed some form of help before the act , and that the most common type of help wanted was someone to talk to .
22 Guardian 1 February 2 = European alert Nuclear power stations across Western Europe are being checked for radioactive leaks following the discovery of a design fault in the giant domes of pressurized water reactors ( PWRs ) , the most common type of design .
23 The most common type of dispute is divorce , since spouses can not , by Buid cultural definition , avoid one another for long .
24 But Prof Boulois said the vaccine would save most lives by protecting against the most common type of pneumonia , which often followed influenza and was widely misdiagnosed .
25 The latest government figures show that incidents of Salmonella , the most common type of food poisoning , reached an all-time high last month , even higher than during the Salmonella-in-eggs scandal .
26 Probably the most common type of conversion project at the present time is the adaptation of a mill or warehouse into a block of dwellings .
27 The most common type of star in the Galaxy turns out to the humble red dwarf .
28 Acne vulgaris is the most common type of acne .
29 Although such censorship is not the most common type of censorship in libraries , it is the one in recent years that has threatened to be the most damaging .
30 The most common type of situation where this will occur is where the buyer uses his credit card to buy an item costing over £100 .
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