Example sentences of "the most [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 IF Henri Cartier-Bresson is the most admired of the older generation of French photographers , Robert Doisneau ( who will be eighty this week ) is the most loved .
2 For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family .
3 Quayle was Falstaff — the most loved , the richest comic part in Shakespeare .
4 Despite being the most visited archaeological site in Europe with 1.4 million visitors annually , rising to a probable 2 million if non-ticket buyers are included the Soprintendenza that administers Pompeii only receives around £700,000 ( $1.2 million ) per annum from central government to spend on the fabric of the site .
5 Recently-released figures for visitor numbers to Italy 's monuments and galleries in 1991 show no change at the top on the previous year : the most visited free-entry attraction is still the Parco di Capodimonte , Naples ( 2.6 million visitors ) and the most visited paying venue is Pompeii ( 1.4 million ) .
6 Recently-released figures for visitor numbers to Italy 's monuments and galleries in 1991 show no change at the top on the previous year : the most visited free-entry attraction is still the Parco di Capodimonte , Naples ( 2.6 million visitors ) and the most visited paying venue is Pompeii ( 1.4 million ) .
7 AYSGARTH Falls , Ingleton Falls and Hardraw Force are probably the most visited waterfalls in Yorkshire , for like Malham Cove , Bolton Abbey and the show caves of White Scar and Ingleborough , they are amongst the " honeypots " that attract coachloads of trippers to the Dales .
8 At the most visited monuments , of course , we have been doing much more .
9 In achieving these aims it was undoubtedly enormously successful and must rank as one of the most cited and most influential physical geography textbooks of the twentieth century .
10 That is not , in any way , to take away from the fine documentation of every tournament played in 1991 , many of which were penned by British tennis journalists , who continue to be the most travelled in the world .
11 The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt .
12 Consequently , the older part of an American city is often the most run down and neglected .
13 Consequently , the older part of an American city is often the most run down and neglected .
14 And then she had met Havvie Blaine , or , more properly , Havelock Torquil Roderick Blaine , Marquess of Blaine , heir to the Twelfth Duke of Innescourt , the most handsome man in society , the most run after by every girl from the age of sixteen upwards , and most of the married women , too , said the cynics .
15 Lindsey reckons that he is the most shot down pilot in the world , after all , until the appearance on the UK airshow circuit of Spanish-built Messerschmitt ‘ 109s ’ ( Ha 1112MIL Buchons ) in 1988 , Lindsey had the only German ‘ fighter ’ available .
16 Women who score high on BSRI androgyny , and who show androgynous or ‘ blended ’ behaviour in sex-typed situations , are the most influenced by traditional gender schemas .
17 It is not surprising that the most sought after properties and comfortable estates have become no-go areas for Black families .
18 At Sotheby 's the following day , the most debated and perplexing lot was an anonymous portrait of a praying cleric on a blue ground , inscribed with the sitter 's name , the composer Jacob Obrecht .
19 One of the most debated areas of anatomy is the early history of the vertebrate nasal and hypophysial regions already mentioned above .
20 This passage is the source for one of the most debated features of Marxist social theory , known as the ‘ base and superstructure metaphor ’ : the idea that the economic ‘ material base ’ of society determines developments in the ‘ superstructural ’ realms of law , of politics and of people 's ideas generally .
21 He designed for others ( costumes for Diaghilev and embroidery for Schiaparelli ) , but he also ‘ designed ’ himself ; his unquenchable desire for fame and his talent for self-publicity made him the most photographed man in Paris .
22 It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway .
23 The choice of wine he is , wisely , leaving to the club , for its cellar carries the reputation of being no less impressive than its golf course , which is probably the most photographed in the world .
24 Not surprisingly , this lava lake is one of the most photographed features in Hawaii , and the crater has been labelled in suitable post-card terminology ‘ The House of Everlasting Fire ’ .
25 One of the most photographed is mediaeval Dunster with its yarn market , castle and working mill .
26 All that remained was the 18th — and the stone Swilcan Bridge , perhaps the most photographed landmark in golf .
27 Chelsea , named after a Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning , will now become one of the most photographed children in the world .
28 She dressed with consummate elegance , personifying grace both off and on the stage , and she was the most photographed woman of the time .
29 More important , however , was the most read handbook on the military art , the De re militari of Vegetius , compiled in the late fourth century AD .
30 Everywhere the aim of the research is to improve public understanding of a development in warfare that is arguably the most important , and certainly the most hedged about with technical complexity , since nuclear weapons .
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