Example sentences of "most [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The pope was father in God to the Romans , and to all men ; he was St Peter in person , the earthly representative of the apostle on whom the fame and fortune of the city most depended ; but he was also a petty tyrant — one of the ancient rulers who had failed to go away ; the symbol of all that was alien to the new found liberty so loved by the Italian city dwellers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 3 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 4 | That pattern can also be called liberal , or bourgeois , civilization and it was most developed in the industrialized countries , least in the agrarian east and south . |
| 5 | Sexual dimorphism will be most developed among strongly polygynous species and least developed among monogamous ones . |
| 6 | The linked trends in the quality Sundays towards physical bulk and internal diversity is most developed in a market leader like The Sunday Times which seeks to ‘ cover ’ everything ( and every angle ) through a ‘ completist ’ strategy designed to overwhelm both the competition and the reader . |
| 7 | However , sensitivity to water movements is most developed in underwater vertebrates . |
| 8 | Their use is most developed in the social insects , where each nest has a unique odour . |
| 9 | Moreover , the section of the work-force most given to strike action showed every sign of increasing its weight both in relative and absolute terms . |
| 10 | Almost at once , those who had most favoured the change start squealing . |
| 11 | Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations . |
| 12 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 13 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 14 | The view most favoured is that it could , by the intervention of an official and by means of his coercion . |
| 15 | If the money is available fitted carpets are a good investment , particularly those that are patterned in a mid-shade of the colour most favoured by the elderly person , as this will not show either marks or dust so much as a plain light- or dark-coloured carpet does . |
| 16 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 17 | The reason for this pledge was to make good the cut in benefits that resulted from the breaking of the link between these benefits and earnings or prices — whichever most favoured the claimant . |
| 18 | The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets . |
| 19 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
| 20 | The type of batteries most favoured at present are either 1.5 volt AA pen-lights or the 9 volt PP3s . |
| 21 | The larger falcons are among the birds of prey most favoured for the sport of falconry . |
| 22 | Most of the guests seemed to be either journalists , politicians , or fashion designers , the three occupations most favoured by the nascent New Delhi chattering class . |
| 23 | It is this emphasis on the signifier at the expense of the signified which makes poetics the type of discourse most favoured and fostered by structuralism . |
| 24 | Weary of quotations from the Bible being used to lend God 's authority to the subjection of women , the leading US feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman 's Bible in 1895 , a caustic and entertaining commentary on the scriptural passages most favoured by misogynists . |
| 25 | There could be no doubt that the Burgundian was the leading ruler in Gaul between 511 and 516 , and he may well have been the barbarian king most favoured by the court of Constantinople . |
| 26 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 27 | What they most prized was the untitled Freedom of Bristol which was accorded to them and to two more of their relations . |
| 28 | A bathroom was perhaps the item most prized by working class housewives after World War I , and there is ample evidence of wives planning moves up the housing hierarchy until one was acquired . |
| 29 | The course is both demanding and rewarding ; a graduate in French will have shown competence in a variety of academic and intellectual skills , will have adapted successfully to a challenging foreign environment , and will thus have demonstrated the qualities of intellect and personality most prized by employers . |
| 30 | There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine . |