Example sentences of "probably the [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year the ASB will tackle what is probably the most contentious issue in financial reporting — goodwill . |
| 2 | Vulcan is probably the most powerful laser in Europe , and may be the most versatile high-power laser in the world . |
| 3 | Low-grade vines , situated on flat ground — probably the most boring village in Champagne . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a cold , calculated execution rather than an out-of-control attack — and probably the most premeditated murder in decades . ’ |
| 5 | A vision of stony dignity , with its mist-shrouded battlements , Glamis Castle in Tayside is probably the most haunted spot in Scotland . |
| 6 | The effectivity of the duty to disarm is probably the most crucial issue in international law and international relations of this era . |
| 7 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the problem raised by the hon. Member for Bassetlaw ( Mr. Ashton ) is probably the most crucial element in the redundancy programme to which my hon. Friend has referred ? |
| 8 | Probably the most crucial times in sea kayaking are launching and landing . |
| 9 | The fabulous Crillon , with its marble columns , crystal chandeliers and tapestries , was probably the most exclusive hotel in Paris . |
| 10 | Probably the most overworked word in any description of the British prison system over the last decade or more has been ‘ crisis ’ . |
| 11 | PROBABLY the most surprising name in the entire Birthday Honours List is an MBE for Harold Larwood , the bowler who took part in the controversial 1932–33 ‘ Bodyline ’ Ashes series against Australia . |
| 12 | Work of considerable quality and international interest was now produced in significant quantities in central and eastern Europe , and most notably in Russia , and this was probably the most striking change in the ‘ academic ’ map of the western world in our period , though no history of science in this period can be written without reference to some eminent North Americans , notably the physicist Willard Gibbs ( 1839–1903 ) . |
| 13 | Aline was probably the most efficient girl in our set , and unquestionably the cleverest . |
| 14 | This is probably the most substantive evidence in support of the conspiracy/sabotage theory . |
| 15 | A highly structured talk on what was probably the most challenging topic in this year 's list . |
| 16 | It was the thing about er , my understanding is that people in the area and it 's probably the most densified area in the whole of the town are very very cagey about this ! |
| 17 | Probably the most influential text in the development of the modern elitist theory of democracy ( or , alternatively , theory of democratic elitism ) was Joseph Schumpeter 's Capitalism , Socialism and Democracy ( 1942 ) . |
| 18 | He made plenty of them too : hundreds and double-hundreds , including probably the most famous century in Test history . |
| 19 | In Manchester , there was open speculation that Bobby Charlton , probably the most famous player in United 's history and also a director , was being lined up to take over the chairmanship after a Midani bid . |
| 20 | ‘ Why , sir , one 's the great Lord Byron , probably the most famous poet in the world , after Johann Schlitzberger — and a smarter dresser than Johann Schlitzberger he is , as well . ’ |
| 21 | The fact that Lord Byron was probably the most famous poet in Europe at this time , even including Johann Schlitzberger , was not going to make things easier . |
| 22 | Probably the most disadvantaged researchers in this respect in the field of linguistic semantics are those who study ‘ dead ’ languages . |
| 23 | It forms what is probably the most serious gap in the BBC 's ( and this nation 's ) sound archives . |
| 24 | Very Theatre National Populaire — the noble soup kitchen of theatrical nourishment at Chaillot created by a saint of the Left , Jean Vilar ; probably the most successful example in French cultural life of persuading the hoi polloi to vary their entertainment diet . |
| 25 | The Foxhill Park near Swindon is probably the most demanding track in the world . |
| 26 | Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution . |
| 27 | Probably the most well-known body in Britain for establishing voluntary standards of quality and reliability is the British Standards Institution , whose famous Kitemark indicates that goods conform to the high standards set by the Institution . |
| 28 | The area between Langcliffe and Malham is probably the most interesting area in the North for anybody interested in prehistoric man , for in the limestone cliffs of Attermire and Langcliffe lie some of the earliest traces of man 's habitation in Western Europe . |
| 29 | And in a week when European unity is in the spotlight , Sir Claus told the conference at Bruges in Belgium : ‘ We remain , sad to say , probably the most divisive society in advanced Europe . |
| 30 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |