Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] the most [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So far , local companies have been the most responsive .
2 The effects of the net changes in social class have been modelled explicitly for the university sector in a number of forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) as well as implicitly by the DES ( 1984a , b , 1986b ) .4 These effects have been the most important single factor for which data have been available at a national level albeit only for the university sector .
3 Although enterprise zones have been the most important of the liberalizing initiatives , other developments fall into much the same category .
4 Scotland 's Italian immigrants have been the most generous and benevolent of culinary missionaries .
5 It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table .
6 ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word .
7 The present Troubles have been the most bitter and prolonged in recent Irish history .
8 The maker producing 5000 to 600,000 cars a year whose efforts have been the most impressive in attaining new or maintaining ongoing success
9 The manufacturer producing more than 600,000 cars a year whose efforts have been the most impressive in attaining new or maintaining on-going success
10 The damage inflicted is particularly severe since Fonseca and Williams ( 1988 ) suggest that professional development teachers have been the most effective agency for stimulating a desire for change in schools .
11 1 he corporations have been the most intensive and the most controversial inner-urban English initiative ever devised .
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