Example sentences of "most [adj] is the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most striking is the bronze statue of an airman at Dalton-on-Tees which honours those who served at RAF Croft ( FP November , p29 ) . |
| 2 | Of all these pressures , perhaps the most insidious is the emphasis on standardising the curriculum to ensure that all pupils master the basic skills . |
| 3 | Of all study skills , perhaps the most elusive is the ability to organise and manage time effectively . |
| 4 | For our purposes the most apposite is the description of a course of life in terms of the growth of reputation or the loss of public standing undergone by an individual as he or she meets this or that social hazard . |
| 5 | Certain pieces of visible evidence of field officer activity serve as output measures , of which the most conspicuous is the sampling schedule which each has . |
| 6 | Among the drawings and watercolours the most interesting is the portrait of Marie Stillman by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , which is estimated at £70–100,000 ( $125–175,000 ) . |
| 7 | Of a sizeable number of microlights by far the most interesting is the Mignet HM1000 Balerit G-MYDZ . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend also note that , unlike the Liberal party , whose individual members have held this view for a long time , what is most interesting is the view held by senior members of the Liberal Democrat party in Scotland who are now calling for separatism ? |
| 9 | What is perhaps most interesting is the reality of Frankel 's ( 1987 ) point about boundary collapse . |
| 10 | One of the most popular is The City of York bear , which comes with a certificate signed by the Lord Mayor and whose charity receives a donation for every one sold . |
| 11 | In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime . |
| 12 | The first and most obvious is the way in which they work . |
| 13 | One of the most obvious is the size of the animal possessing the brain . |
| 14 | The most obvious is the word ‘ ley ’ . |
| 15 | The most obvious is the lack of an auto trace feature and , paradoxically , the freehand tool now looks a little crude compared to its new rival . |
| 16 | There are in Cubism many seemingly contradictory features , and one of the most obvious is the fact that despite the strong intellectual and rational strain that characterizes the style , the painting of Picasso and Braque remained markedly unscientific . |
| 17 | Among the many achievements of Charles , the most obvious is the extent of his military conquests . |
| 18 | Most recent and most welcome is the availability of many boots , particularly fabric models , in both men 's and women 's fittings . |
| 19 | Of all the peculiar effects of musical tragedy , the most remarkable is the coexistence of opposite impressions . |
| 20 | Amongst the most remarkable is the growth in Britain 's ethnic minorities . |
| 21 | The most effective is the use of a very large volume — 450,000 litres ( 100,000 gallons ) — of carbon tetrachloride , better known as a cleaning fluid . |
| 22 | Of all the arguments the Chancellor deploys , the most powerful is the contention that the deficit does not matter because it does not represent borrowing by the public sector — in effect the deficit is all in the private sector . |
| 23 | But the most powerful is the father 's reaction to his daughter 's femininity and the part she has to play as ‘ Daddy 's little girl ’ . |
| 24 | The earliest building is a mid-nineteenth-century workhouse and the most fascinating is the rotunda ward block , built in 1885 . |
| 25 | The most substantial is the nation 's success in telecommunications . |
| 26 | The most current is the Myth of the Economic Miracle . |
| 27 | The most negative is the image of renunciation . |
| 28 | The most astonishing is the case of Rajput castes in Northern India of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | One of the most important is the abbey at Rievaulx , a spectacular monastic ruin set in a deeply wooded valley by the River Rye . |
| 30 | The most important is the culture clause which lays down that the EC shall : |