Example sentences of "most [adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Many people suggest using corrugated card for pressing and indeed , most commercially made presses are supplied with corrugated card , but I have always had enormous difficulty when using this , finding that it leaves the imprints of stripes on the flowers and leaves .
2 It centres on the quantitative sense of ‘ popular ’ , proposing ‘ to deal with the pieces which are demonstrably the most popular items of ‘ popular music ’ , with the most widely disseminated items of music disseminated in the mass media' ( Hamm 1982 : 5 ; see also Hamm 1979 : xvii–xxii ; 1982 , passim ) .
3 In 1895 the apple was introduced to the trade as a ‘ Delicious ’ and became one of the most widely grown apples in the world .
4 The relationship between linguistics and literature has been one of the most widely discussed issues in modern literary theory .
5 Hyacinths , narcissi , crocuses and certain types of tulips are the most widely planted bulbs for indoor displays .
6 Produces the world 's most distinctive and one of the world 's most widely distributed beers .
7 The service is limited to 50 of the most widely held shares .
8 Most market makers also display prices for the most widely traded stocks on screen on SEAQ .
9 This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later .
10 Issues by the Italian , French and UK governments have become among the most widely traded issues , and created a basis for ECU based futures contracts .
11 In the most widely reported incidents of this nature ( i ) a group calling itself " White Wolves " on July 4 claimed responsibility for a bomb attack outside the offices of Vrye Weekblad , a radical Afrikaans newspaper ; ( ii ) a bomb attack during the rush-hour on July 6 injured 27 people at a Johannesburg bus station much used by commuters from the townships ; and ( iii ) NP offices in Bloemfontein were extensively damaged on July 22 by a bomb , the latest in a series of attacks on NP offices .
12 Among the most widely reported incidents , six people were killed by unknown gunmen as they waited in a taxi queue in Vosloorus township south of Johannesburg on May 1 , while nine other people were said to have been killed in other incidents the same day .
13 The six-member jury ( composed of four women and two men ) deliberated for 77 minutes before concluding in Smith 's favour and thereby ending one of the most widely reported trials in US history .
14 Syntax has been one of the most widely investigated areas of linguistics and human processing of language has been intensively studied .
15 That riots and local socialism were both found in the most acutely stressed parts of the country is no accident .
16 The circumstances leading to Darwin 's discovery of the theory of natural selection form one of the most intensively studied areas of the history of science .
17 The sociology of religion does , however , present the researcher with an unusual variety of challenges at a number of different levels in its attempt to understand some of the most powerfully held beliefs and most powerfully motivated actions to be found in the social world throughout its history .
18 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 .
19 In this respect they were typical of most industrially employed women in Scotland at the time ( see Table 6b ) .
20 Yet it remains one of the most fondly remembered lines in the annals of Advertising .
21 [ One of the most highly cited papers in ethology is Sir Solly Zuckerman 's study of the behaviour of a baboon colony in London Zoo in 1932 .
22 In the case of geology , the biggest circulation journals , which are likely to yield the most highly cited papers , are American .
23 Davis and Moore have tended to assume that the most highly rewarded positions are indeed the most important .
24 The counties were always liable as they grew , therefore , to lose their most populous and most highly rated areas to new or expanded county boroughs .
25 The next most highly rated questions , in terms of pupils ' experience , were on computation or number concepts .
26 The spirit of Marlowe 's work is in perfect accord with the unique talent of Derek Jarman , one of Britain 's most highly regarded film-makers .
27 The Mexican Hound is one of Holland 's most highly regarded companies , which will be presenting a music-theatre piece of contemporary setting in English .
28 The other task in July for Xu — he is one of China 's most highly regarded chefs , consultants and writers , the Chinese equivalent of Victor Ceserani — was to teach the Norwich staff and advise on setting up the course .
29 Many of the most highly regarded chefs choose their menus after seeing for themselves which the freshest foods are at the market !
30 It is perhaps hard for us to realize after the years of the inter-war depression that for sixty years before 1914 the Durham pit men and the shipyard workers of Tyne and Wear were among the most highly paid workers outside the USA … .
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