Example sentences of "[art] most [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagleton , for example , describes socialist realism as " one of the most devastating assaults on artistic culture ever witnessed in modern history " , and refers to its principal Soviet advocate , Zhdanov , as " Stalin 's cultural thug " . " |
| 2 | It sounds a trivial thing — this common pasture right for six months of the year — but it had the most devastating effect on town development , in the Midlands above all . |
| 3 | ‘ Without a doubt , ’ says local SDLP councillor Gerry Gallagher , who also owns a grocer 's shop on Main Street , ‘ the most devastating effect on the village was the catering and closing of the cross-border roads . |
| 4 | Even in the 1830s the most influential work on international law could assume that salutes at sea were still a significant aspect of the subject . |
| 5 | There is an inbuilt discontinuity in parent power which may mean that the most influential voices on the governing body suddenly fall silent . |
| 6 | The most stimulating letter on each topic wins The Good Skiing Guide . |
| 7 | Accordingly , the most instructive gloss on ‘ externality ’ is to be found where we might expect it , in Pound 's 1916 memoir of the sculptor , Gaudier-Brzeska , where he writes of Gaudier and Lewis and other ‘ vorticists ’ , painters , and sculptors : |
| 8 | One of the most successful initiatives on the part of the Council was the Lothian European Lectures 1992 . |
| 9 | ‘ Middlesbrough are the most successful team on the pitch . |
| 10 | Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s Torrance was one of the most successful competitors on the burgeoning European Tour . |
| 11 | We had the most extraordinary auditions on Saturday mornings at the little Dawes Road Church . |
| 12 | I do seem to have the most extraordinary effect on people . |
| 13 | I am the author of the most recent monograph on Saraceni ( Carlo Saraceni , Mario Spagnol Editore , Milan , 1968 ) . |
| 14 | One of the most recent works on show is Peter Howson 's ‘ Blind Leading the Blind ( 1 ) ’ ( 1991 ) , a modern version of Breugel which produces an image of equal power in its sense of menace and threat to that of Rego 's ‘ Family ’ . |
| 15 | Caparo , the most recent ruling on the subject , reversed the trend of preceding cases |
| 16 | The most recent writers on the subject have been more cautious , and have pointed out that not all towns can be fitted into the same pattern , and that local factors bulked large in each case ( 71 ; 75 , p.45 ) . |
| 17 | The stalemate among the 39 participating countries was gradually broken in the late 1980s as relations between the superpowers improved [ for the most recent developments on the negotiations , see pp. 38217 ; R153 ; 38986 ] . |
| 18 | The most recent work on the subject stresses the complexity and ambiguity of much of the legislation of this period regarding the serf population of Russia : it also suggests that after 1775 repression of peasant disorder may have been less arbitrary than before and that it was sometimes accompanied by efforts by provincial governors to persuade landowners to treat their peasants with greater humanity . |
| 19 | It made sense , I suppose , to begin with the symphonic poem Genesis , paradoxically the most recent music on the disc , commissioned as a ballet by Janet Collins in 1954 , although not performed in the concert hall until 1969 , on the tenth anniversary of the composer 's death . |
| 20 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 21 | Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years . |
| 22 | Although she was the most recent arrival on the team , nobody seemed to question her authority . |
| 23 | BGS issues daily geomagnetic activity forecasts , making use of the most recent information on solar activity , and operates a real-time geomagnetic disturbance monitoring service for commercial customers , among them the European Space Agency , which has commissioned BGS to produce long- and short-term forecasts of solar and geomagnetic activity . |
| 24 | The Geomagnetism Group issues daily geomagnetic activity forecasts , making use of the most recent information on solar activity , and operates a real-time geomagnetic disturbance monitoring service for commercial customers . |
| 25 | The answer — as long as you are stinking rich — lies in the ultimate gift guide , Robb Report magazine 's annual list of the most exclusive presents on earth . |
| 26 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most paranoid variation on this theme comes from William Milton Cooper , who suggests in his pamphlet The Secret Government that J.F. Kennedy was in fact killed because he was about to blow the gaff on the alien conspiracy . |
| 28 | It is the aim of this research to tabulate and collate the unpublished information to provide a published resum'e of the most extensive data on prices and wages ever compiled in this country . |
| 29 | The most useful evidence on this again comes from Drudy and Drudy 's study of school-leavers in north Norfolk . |
| 30 | Probably the most useful indicator on a shoot is the one which shows whether or not you are actually recording pictures — it 's easy to forget whether you have just pressed the camera control on or off ! |