Example sentences of "[being] most [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mitochondria of insect muscle vary greatly in size , shape and distribution , being most extensively developed in the flight-muscles , as one would expect from the extremely high metabolic rate of these actively contracting structures . |
| 2 | Languages : English and Chinese ( official — Cantonese being most widely spoken ) . |
| 3 | Languages : English and Chinese ( official — Cantonese being most widely spoken ) . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's easy ; my affections have been rejected by the one I love and her carnality is being most thoroughly investigated by my elder and smarter brother on a more or less hourly basis , so I am spurned and she is spermed ; my father believes his children should be free to make up their own minds , but preferably only out of the spare-parts that he provides … |
| 5 | This new feeling was real fear , not so much of physical injury as of humiliation , that being most easily provoked in someone of her age and sex . |
| 6 | He attaches great importance to ‘ the association of ideas ’ and sees it as being most powerfully achieved where the punishment symbolises the offence as far as possible . |
| 7 | The cognitive factors which are significantly related to sign performance in hearing signers are reasoning , cloze and embedded figures , with the last one being most highly related to sign-to-English translation . |
| 8 | Hobhouse already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state , which was developed much more fully by Marshall ( 1950 ) , who defined citizenship as the possession of civil , political and social rights , the last of these being most fully attained in the twentieth-century industrial societies which had embarked upon the construction of comprehensive systems of public provision , including a national health service , more generous and accessible educational facilities , and greatly extended social security . |
| 9 | Equally , the most brutal and aggressive member of staff is often most admired by the inmates as well as being most deeply hated . |
| 10 | In Cilicap in southern Java we have watched old men being most convincingly possessed by what they call the spirits of horses , monkeys and pigs . |
| 11 | Meechai , a senior legal expert , was the sole non-party member of the Thai Cabinet , being most recently reappointed in August 1988 [ not 1987 as indicated on p. 37082 ] . |