Example sentences of "[be] most [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This movement has been most clearly indicated by regular sea-watches , which have recorded small easterly movements between the late March and early May , and a westerly movement between October and December . |
| 2 | Their work can be seen as a range of attempts to deal with a shared set of problems which have perhaps been most clearly formulated by the greatest among them — by Bloch and Febvre ( the founders of the journal ) in the first generation , by Braudel in the second , and more recently by Le Roy Ladurie . |
| 3 | ‘ These two submissions have been most impressively argued by Mr. Lloyd for the local health authority . |
| 4 | Letters to ministers have been most frequently used by Sub-Committee E , to draw to the Government 's attention their views of the correct legal base for a Commission proposal . |
| 5 | Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression . |
| 6 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 7 | The next set of materials , house forms , has been most fully studied by Glassie in an analysis of eighteenth-century extant folk housing in Middle Virginia . |
| 8 | Barthes 's caveats against recuperation have been most convincingly demonstrated by Stephen Heath ( 1972 ) who is critical of the tendency towards naturalization : the radical experience of the nouveau roman is undermined when the novels are subjected to reductive readings of the psychologizing variety enacted by Morrissette , however much these may be encouraged by the novelists themselves . |
| 9 | Historically the computational approach has been most actively pursued by engineers eager to build machines that can do the same things as humans . |
| 10 | They have been most recently espoused by the hon. Member for Clackmannan , who is not even a member of the shadow Cabinet . |
| 11 | Looms are most frequently indicated by loom-weights , annular in form , for weighing down the warp threads on upright looms ; they are occasionally found in rows in the base of sunken buildings where they may have fallen or been taken off the loom , or originally stacked in a column . |
| 12 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 13 | In this chapter I shall set out all those questions which are most frequently asked by prospective patients , and which have not already been covered in Chapter 1 ; and in Chapter 3 , by giving details of the progress of one particular case , I shall endeavour to provide some idea of what to expect during a typical regression therapy session . |
| 14 | These hierarchies are most easily demonstrated by concrete nouns ( e.g. collie ISA dog ISA animal , etc . ) |
| 15 | Experimental results are most easily explained by ‘ interference ’ theories , in which the memory of one task is most efficient when no other task is being memorized . |
| 16 | First , that wise choices about health are most easily made by people who feel good about themselves and are able to talk to their partners . |
| 17 | Perhaps with their greater freedom they are most easily blinded by the options and may forget to take account of the special needs of those who live alone . |
| 18 | Drift-nets are most notoriously used by the tuna fishing fleets of the Pacific . |
| 19 | Changes to this ratio are most effectively induced by the operation of media , which McLuhan defines as extensions to the senses . |
| 20 | The schedules determine which subjects can be effectively represented by the scheme , and which relationships are most effectively reflected by it . |
| 21 | In this respect , the narrative of group 2 is appropriate , as their choices are most widely shared by other groups . |
| 22 | ‘ Teachers should recognise that the values they reflect are most powerfully expressed by how they relate to learners ; in how they talk and communicate ; in how they share knowledge , skills and ideas : and in the expectations they indicate to the learner , ’ suggested the council . |
| 23 | In this chapter , then , the term ‘ permissiveness ’ is subjected to further critical scrutiny , and an attempt is made to isolate those ‘ factors ’ or characteristics that are most usually invoked by moral entrepreneurs in their discussions of the ‘ permissive society ’ . |
| 24 | Changes of media are most often precipitated by entrances and exits . |
| 25 | Main element problems are most often caused by the artificial feeding of fertilizers that are either unbalanced in themselves or become unbalanced because of the local soil conditions . |
| 26 | Concepts and rules are most often taught by definition and description , and whilst this can be successful , given a good communication technique , it has the disadvantage of failing to produce generalisation . |
| 27 | Fights occur , of course , but conflicts are most often settled by bouts of roaring at each other ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 28 | Geophysical and geochemical research projects are frequently used to locate tectonic and metamorphic boundaries , which again are most concisely described by a map . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the industrial skills of the area are learned in the very businesses which are most harshly hit by taxation . |
| 30 | Thus , when the Board of Education issues its official Suggestions for Teachers handbook in 1910 it transmitted a clear message : ‘ … the high function of the teacher is to prepare the child for the life of the good citizen , to create and foster the aptitude for work and for the intelligent use of leisure , and to develop those features of character which are most readily influenced by school life , such as loyalty to comrades , loyalty to institutions , unselfishness and an orderly and disciplined habit of mind . ’ |