Example sentences of "most popular [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the single most popular type of make-up available , and even women who were no other cosmetic will buy lipstick at some stage in their lives . |
| 2 | Mail order has expanded significantly in recent years ; the most popular type of trader in this section is the mail order warehouse , which carries a large range of goods . |
| 3 | The most popular type of position detector is the incremental optical encoder , which is shown schematically in Fig. 7.2 . |
| 4 | Portland cement is today the most popular type of cement and is used in vast quantities for building and construction in all parts of the world . |
| 5 | Popular gouramis Why are gouramis one of the most popular groups of aquarium fish ? |
| 6 | For a town of this rank it seems almost incredible until we recall that Walsingham enjoyed a lucrative tourist trade as far and away the most popular resort of pilgrimage , the shrine alone deriving an income of £250 a year from the pious offerings of the faithful , compared with the meagre £36 to which that of St Thomas at Canterbury had by then shrunk . |
| 7 | The most popular route of ascent is from Ingleton and this is the one invariably followed by first-time visitors although it is not the best , and the much-trodden path is well populated on most days of the year . |
| 8 | The five most popular brands of conditioner nationwide are Timotei , Flex by Revlon , Cream Silk , Alberto Balsam and Alberto VO5 . |
| 9 | Semi-contact karate is one of the most popular forms of competition fighting . |
| 10 | Listed below are many of the most popular forms of exercise and their activity values on a scale of I to 10 . |
| 11 | TODAY looks at the odds in the most popular forms of gambling . |
| 12 | Endurance racing has remained one of the most popular forms of motor racing and , apart from the Formula One World Championship , the Sports Car World Championship is the longest surviving World Championship even , although it has appeared under different guises since first seen in 1953 . |
| 13 | One of the most popular forms of transport in London at that time was the omnibus drawn by a pair of horses — worked for three hours a day , with a rest every half-mile — which , by 1890 , had become double-deckers with an outside staircase at the back , and which held up to twenty-six passengers . |
| 14 | The following are some of the most popular forms of advertising : |
| 15 | Wholemeal bread has finally shed its health food image and become one of the most popular sources of fibre . |
| 16 | In addition , while many , if not all , children are likely to take GCSE examinations in the most popular subjects of Maths and English , the examination is primarily designed for the same population as covered by O-level and CSE , namely the top 60 per cent or so . |
| 17 | This chapter and Chapter 5 consider the three most popular theories of language development to emerge in recent years , beginning with the publication of Skinner 's book Verbal Behaviour in 1957 . |
| 18 | Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses ' most popular form of entertainment . |
| 19 | The most popular form of insurance — burial insurance — was , however , almost universal . |
| 20 | AA 5 Star service is the most popular form of cover chosen by the motorist taking his car abroad . |
| 21 | The most popular form of payment is cash . |
| 22 | Since the introduction of the duvet to this country in the early 1970's , the duvet has become the most popular form of bedwear . |
| 23 | Photographs : are certainly the most popular form of illustration but , as yet , desktop publishing systems can not handle them very well . |
| 24 | MORE than one in three adults fill out coupons in the most popular form of gambling . |
| 25 | Before oil prices increased the most popular form of heating was a paraffin stove despite the smell and danger . |
| 26 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 27 | Even among the 15 to 17 year olds four out of 10 admitted they would be to shy to buy condoms , the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , over the counter in a chemist . |
| 28 | Fondant icing is the most popular form of cake covering used in this book . |
| 29 | Some experts believe that the fact we have more material possessions these days means that there is simply more to steal — after all , car theft is the most popular form of theft . |
| 30 | There were exceptions to this approach , but , given that the most popular form of training was that conceived by boards themselves , perhaps a clearer message is required as to the general value of training . |