Example sentences of "[was/were] the most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tizard 's findings led her to conclude that the adopted children were the most fortunate — as a group they had fewer problems than the restored children . |
| 2 | The Central Asian nationalities were the most resistant to russification in this as in other respects : no more than 3 per cent of any of the five major nationalities concerned claimed Russian as a native language in the 1989 census , a much lower proportion than for the non-Russian population as a whole , and levels of fluency in Russian were also much lower than among minority nationalities elsewhere in the USSR . |
| 3 | The Scrutiny team 's proposals for legal advice were the most controversial . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , you , ’ he said , patiently , irritably , still with that relentlessly everyday , normative tone , as though this whole discussion were the most ordinary event , the most expected of interchanges . |
| 5 | While 44% of owner-directors described their bank managers as ‘ distinctly unhelpful ’ over the past 12 months , 42% said their accountant was best at understanding the business 's needs and a third thought they were the most helpful source of advice . |
| 6 | The period was marked by mass demonstrations , of which the Aldermaston marches were the most successful as well as the best remembered , and by more direct forms of action such as well-planned and highly publicized sorties against selected US rocket bases situated in Britain . |
| 7 | The OMOs were the most successful post-war rebuilds . |
| 8 | The Smiths of Mauchline were the most successful at diversifying and , as one member of the family put it , they produced ‘ every article which you can conceive it possible to make . ’ |
| 9 | They were the most successful comedy films of all time . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly adults were the most successful subjects , with speakers and listeners achieving the correct route on 92 per cent of occasions . |
| 11 | These were the most successful . |
| 12 | The Franks were the last of the invaders of Gaul , although ultimately they were the most successful . |
| 13 | But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country 's foreign policy . |
| 14 | However , since so few children attended some of these types of school , d is often calculated from proportions at the extremes of the scale ; if we rank the class exclusivity of schools on the basis of the magnitude of the d s , we seem to be told that the secondary moderns were the most selective , followed by the grammar schools . |
| 15 | For example , a recent survey of young people 's attitude towards the monarchy asked which were the most hardworking royals ( ’ Young Guardian Garrick James Youth Survey' , Guardian , 29.4.1987 ) . |
| 16 | The blue-greens , therefore , flourish uncropped just as they did when they were the most advanced form of life anywhere in the world . |
| 17 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 18 | I loved meeting the people , and the times spent drawing amongst friends in their homes were the most memorable . |
| 19 | Having established which informants were the most experienced in the SF genre , all the informants were given the passage reproduced below . |
| 20 | You were the most perfect , the most beautiful , the best I ever had . |
| 21 | Recall that for Robert Burton in 1621 it was not our bestial qualities that were the most dangerous , but our civilized ones perverted ( above , Chapter 8 ) ; now , the civilized in perverted form is also the primitive and bestial . |
| 22 | Then there were the ‘ Rowdies ’ , boys of 15 and 16 , who were the most identifiable group by virtue of their appearance , the noise they made and their tendency to run around the most . |
| 23 | Hand-loom weavers in the various textile manufactures were the most ubiquitous of manufacturing workers . |
| 24 | We were the most powerful country in the world and the overwhelming fact was that astonishing amounts of money had come into ordinary people 's homes . |
| 25 | They were the most powerful in the Shahaptian family , which also included the Palouse , Walla Walla , Umatilla , Wanapum , Klickitat , Yakima and Cayuse tribes . |
| 26 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 27 | The study yielded a group of forty men who were the most powerful in Atlanta , and these were treated by Hunter as Atlanta 's political elite . |
| 28 | ‘ On balance , we felt these were the most powerful , potent female images on offer . |
| 29 | Secondary teachers were the most negative in Oxfordshire in their attitudes towards the efficiency of SSE , and thus contrasted strongly with their counterparts in Solihull , who were neutral . |
| 30 | Local government organisations were the most negative about job prospects and banks also forecast further redundancies . |