Example sentences of "[prep] the most [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most market makers also display prices for the most widely traded stocks on screen on SEAQ . |
| 2 | Individuals have to search more intensively for the most favourably priced goods , and firms have to determine their new prices ( not easy when production costs are continually changing ) and then disseminate the information . |
| 3 | We mentioned above that inflation creates additional administrative costs to households and firms , both in the search for the most favourably priced goods and in the time and effort involved in determining and disseminating new prices . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a section here for the most prettily arranged salad . |
| 5 | The greatest unfairness , she thought , was that the women who could afford to buy the beautiful clothes simply did not do them justice , while she , who showed them off so well , had to save for weeks , even given her staff discount , for the most modestly priced item . |
| 6 | It is possible , for example , that a large proportion of loans are for the most recently deposited theses ; alternatively , it could be that some theses are more often requested than others , and that loan records for such theses would be found within different time periods . |
| 7 | As the most intellectually enlightened of the sects , they were on the side of the ruling power . |
| 8 | Once established as the most widely spoken language in the community , the Creole would soon supersede African languages for most functions except , perhaps , religious ones . |
| 9 | At the time of the First World War the Shorthorn was described as the most widely distributed of all the breeds of cattle , both at home and abroad , and it far exceeded other purebreds in Britain while the great majority of commercial crossbreds also relied on Shorthorn blood . |
| 10 | In fact , ‘ topic ’ could be described as the most frequently used , unexplained , term in the analysis of discourse . |
| 11 | Its scarcity contributed to its status as the most universally accepted precious substance , but this only ensured that unceasing efforts were made to reduce scarcity by increasing supplies . |
| 12 | Emphasis as between local language and English teaching varies according to national patterns and policies , but a survey would most probably reveal the English text as the most commonly possessed book in most schools . |
| 13 | The 88000 Slater described as the most highly integrated of early RISC implementations with a very clean architecture and no major warts , except perhaps the combined integer-floating point register file . |
| 14 | When asked about the most frequently raised problem Harry replied , ‘ The hurricane of '87 , ’ without hesitation . |
| 15 | If there are fewer than seven pills left in the pack after the most recently delayed pill , then when you have finished the pack , start the next pack next day , without a break . |
| 16 | Botanically this oasis is now one of the most completely studied areas of continental Antarctica ( Pickard , 1986b , 1986c ) . |
| 17 | One of the most carefully observed pieces of vaudeville comes in the song whose female part begins , |
| 18 | The Parable of the Sower is one of the most well known of all the parables . |
| 19 | The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history . |
| 20 | The probem of contamination is one of the most well known and difficult hurdles with this technique . |
| 21 | These two characters , created by Lewis Carroll , are probably two of the most well known characters from Looking glass . |
| 22 | There is a magnificent bronze food-warmer with handles attached to either side of the body by strigilated shafts in the form of the most elegantly fashioned hands , and a brazier patinated a stunning azure . |
| 23 | Leopold and Wolfgang were received by the Elector and Electress of Bavaria : Wolfgang wrote to his mother that the theatre was packed , and every aria was received with a ‘ colossal uproar ’ ( that the plot is one of the most thoroughly confused and incomprehensible ever devised did n't seem to matter ) . |
| 24 | Described by a recent historian of the North-east as " one of the most rigorously controlled and poorly paid of all British labour " , even in the mid nineteenth century it paid only about 3s ( 15p ) a week . |
| 25 | It is not surprising , therefore , to find that learning has been one of the most extensively studied of human abilities , yet we do not have one complete explanatory theory that can guide teachers . |
| 26 | This leaves the Metropolitan with one last hope to secure some of the most urgently needed Sharp items before their dispersal , either by private purchase or by gift . |
| 27 | Enter Ulrich Zwingli ( 1484–1531 ) , one of the most zealously dedicated of all the religious reformers , a man whose opposition to traditional beliefs and practices was so extreme as to make Luther ( with whom he quarrelled ) look mild . |
| 28 | One of the most frequently cited indices is what is termed the ‘ dependency ratio ’ . |
| 29 | In 1973 , in what has become one of the most frequently quoted papers in the literature of memory research , Tim Bliss from the National Institute for Medical Research in London and Terje Lømo described how , working together in Per Andersen 's laboratory in Oslo , they had anaesthetized a rabbit , then exposed its hippocampus and the nerves leading to it . |
| 30 | Several experimental models of acute pancreatitis have been produced by various methods but one of the most frequently used involves an excessive stimulation of pancreatic secretion by the administration of supramaximal dose of caerulein or cholecystokinin octapeptide . |