Example sentences of "[am/are] the most [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarette smoking , raised blood cholesterol and high blood pressure are the most firmly established , non-hereditary risk factors leading to CHD . |
| 2 | Red tape and bureaucracy are the most frequently given reasons for people working underground . |
| 3 | A variety of economic strategies may be used to control air pollution , although the use of emission charges and emission permits are the most frequently cited ( table 7.2 ) . |
| 4 | We have , therefore , to use other methods , the following four of which are the most frequently employed . |
| 5 | Red-throated Divers have been recorded in every month except July and are the most frequently recorded divers in the winter months . |
| 6 | Governors of schools are the most frequently mentioned group and Circular 6/81 asked them to encourage schools to carry out a review . |
| 7 | Emotional and conduct disorders are the most frequently encountered psychiatric disturbances of childhood . |
| 8 | The fifth , sixth and seventh words are the most widely favoured for deletion . |
| 9 | Karrass Workshops are the most widely attended of their kind and are held in major cities worldwide . |
| 10 | the administration of production ( ie. the ‘ brain-work ’ ) and the actual supervision of production work are the most widely separated in large-batch and mass production companies ; |
| 11 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Frankfurters are the most widely known of all the scalded sausages , and many other varieties such as Bockwurst , Knackwurst and Weinerwurst are really the same thing but in different sizes . |
| 13 | Of the remaining varieties , red kidney beans are the most widely known , being a vital ingredient in chilli con carne , which strikes me as being second only to ham , egg and chips on the standard pub menu ! |
| 14 | Hyacinths , narcissi , crocuses and certain types of tulips are the most widely planted bulbs for indoor displays . |
| 15 | The village is surrounded by vines , but it is those behind Sacy on steeply climbing , northeast-facing slopes leading up to the Bois de la Fosse which are the most favourably located . |
| 16 | Those drawn in sterling are the most easily negotiated in the London market although there is a ready market for foreign currency bills providing they are accepted payable in London . |
| 17 | These are the most simply told , and they have a nicely judged lack of any obvious point . |
| 18 | Conservationists are concerned that fish of breeding age — those over eight years — are the most severely depleted . |
| 19 | Back in the world of multiple sensory realities , vocalization and dynamic , three-dimensional echo-location are the most fully developed sensory systems of some bats and cetaceans . |
| 20 | It appears from another NFHA report that single adults are the most seriously affected by increasing housing association rents . |
| 21 | Firstly , you can know that you are an OK person because you are the most fantastically designed , most wonderfully advanced and most incredibly complicated part of God 's world ! |
| 22 | Generally , the shorter maturities are the most actively traded . |
| 23 | In places where it is light at night , robins are the most commonly heard songsters , and dunnocks and song thrushes are quite often heard too . |
| 24 | The genital region , wrists , and finger webs are the most commonly affected sites , followed by the elbows , feet , buttocks , armpits , and breasts , particularly around the nipples . |
| 25 | Of all the insects , bees and wasps are the most commonly encountered ‘ stingers ’ . |
| 26 | Bacteria and algae are the most commonly used photosynthesising organisms in single-cell protein production and are best cultivated in shallow ponds where temperatures are high and an adequate nutrient supply is present . |
| 27 | Psychologists often refer to a list of generally used defences : repression , denial , displacement , splitting , projection and reaction formation are the most commonly used . |
| 28 | The first two are the most commonly required . |
| 29 | The colour of the polyps also varies considerably ; brown , green and pale blue are the most often seen in the UK , though red , pink and purple specimens are also found , as are striped forms , the stripes radiating from the mouth |
| 30 | Those I mention here are the most often talked about and may be helpful for some readers . |