Example sentences of "[was/were] [pos pn] most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , R. H. Tawney took a traditional line , asserting that Tutorial Classes and , at the very least , One-Year courses constituted the WEA 's real work , that those who had left school at or about fifteen were its most important target and that as a movement it should be largely under the control of its voluntary student members . |
| 2 | A small , terrified child clutching a satchel with both arms as though it were her most prized possession . |
| 3 | Most of Ray 's cows were grazing in another field when it happened but those he lost were his most valuable . |
| 4 | It was Pitt-Rivers ' methods of excavation , though , that were his most important contribution to archaeology . |
| 5 | This was my most productive rig prior to the hair and I have used it since on waters where the hair has been banned . |
| 6 | Christie 's sale on 26 March was their most successful post-war sale to date , totalling £698,522 ( with premium ) , 75% sold by value and 68% by lot . |
| 7 | In a recent study a group of exporters indicated that financing their export activities , which included managing cash-flow as well as managing exchange rate fluctuations , was their most difficult task . |
| 8 | After 1540 there were normally two such secretaries ; and though they handled an enormously wide range of business , domestic , Irish and later colonial , " the care of foreign affairs was their most important duty " . |
| 9 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 10 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 11 | But Jane Eyre was her most famous book . |
| 12 | ‘ The Dying Swan ’ , created for her in 1907 by Mikhail Fokine , was her most popular interpretation . |
| 13 | " You learnt a lot " , according to one woman who had worked on the Encyclopaedia Britannica , which was her most vivid memory , as well it might be . |
| 14 | This new autonomy , fostered by German scholarship , was its most decisive innovation of all ; and the fact that most areas of knowledge were just then involved in methodological developments of one kind or another does not lessen its importance . |
| 15 | ‘ Your committee are now compelled to bring to your recollection the sad event which has deprived the Body of the illustrious Person , who was its most efficient Member . |
| 16 | Cassirer was elected chairman of the Secession in 1912 and staged what probably was its most impressive exhibition in 1913 . |
| 17 | This had always been even more precious than love-making , or was its most precious part . |
| 18 | Amongst physics students , the intellectual appeal of the subject — its certainty , its fundamentality , its discoveries — was its most important quality . |
| 19 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 20 | This was his most vulnerable political decision . |
| 21 | Although Mr Cossiga has now backed down , it was his most serious mishap to date . |
| 22 | It is not recorded whether the Salas diary was his most recent acquisition or whether it appealed most to the colleague but the following story is quite remarkable . |
| 23 | Figuring a total of 600 plates in seven volumes ( of which 328 species were new to science and named by Gould ) , it was his most expensive production to date . |
| 24 | But his steely sense of his outward self was his most envied quality . |
| 25 | He had a boyish , slightly abstracted look , that was his most endearing expression . |
| 26 | I asked him what was his most enduring memory of Miles . |
| 27 | With the publication of what was his most important work apart from the Idées , namely the Extinction du Paupérisme , the Prince showed himself to be aware of the grave socio-economic problems which afflicted the mass of the French people ; to whom he now offered a solution . |
| 28 | After calling it , this was his most important and abiding contribution to the Council . |
| 29 | This speech was his most significant review of the question since losing the premiership . |
| 30 | In 1886 he met Oscar Wilde [ q.v. ] ; their friendship developed slowly , but in 1895 , when Wilde was sentenced to two years ' hard labour for homosexual crimes , Ross was his most constant and loyal friend . |