Example sentences of "[conj] most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | however , the strategy should switch from defence to attack such that these sites ( and others that may not qualify as the finest , rarest or most representative examples ) are protected as sources of biological quality ( Ffynnon Bywyd ? ) from which an impoverished countryside can be recolonised through schemes like ‘ Tir Cymen ’ and ESAs ; |
| 2 | Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few . |
| 3 | No name as yet , but with a grade of E8 , 7a , it is harder than Agincourt and is arguably the hardest ( or most powerful ) route in America . |
| 4 | ‘ I use the most simple or most complex equipment available — frankly , I think cameras are boring — they 're like a gun , if it shoots O.K. it does n't matter what it is as long as it can do its job . |
| 5 | How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ? |
| 6 | Second , his powers to acquire any land ‘ necessary for the public service ’ have been extended by the 1980 Act to authorise acquisitions ‘ ( a ) to meet the interests of proper planning of the area , or ( b ) to secure the best , or most economic , development or use of land ’ . |
| 7 | Anti-trust laws in the US are perhaps the best , or most typical , example of this particular form of regulation . |
| 8 | If it is a matter of delicate legal analysis what the best interpretation of the precedents cited in McLoughlin would require in that case , then any answer provides very weak evidence about which decision would be most popular or most beneficial for the future . |
| 9 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 10 | Container growing is convenient , too , in that herbs can be protected in winter , the containers can be put where most convenient or most suitable for the herbs , and they can be used for decorating otherwise austere sites such as paving , basement areas and concrete yards . |
| 11 | Indeed the two values are often extremely difficult to disentangle and there is a good reason for this ; for any given adjective , in many or most actual situations where the one interpretation may be applied correctly , the other will apply also ; in addition , for many adjectives , even in principle , the semantic distinction may be vanishingly small . |
| 12 | From these answers we can see that a horse 's temperament may touch on all these statements , or their opposites , and that the horse 's temperament is demonstrated by its general or most consistent mood and natural disposition . |
| 13 | It is worthy of note at this point that the decision as to what is the correct or most similar remedy for a patient is not necessarily simple or straightforward . |
| 14 | Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers ' discussions about arterial accessibility . |
| 15 | The effect of the maxim is to add to most utterances a pragmatic inference to the effect that the statement presented is the strongest , or most informative , that can be made in the situation ; in many cases the implicatures can be glossed by adding only to the propositional content of the sentence , e.g. " Nigel has only fourteen children " , " the flag is only white " , " Harry only got a fine " . |
| 16 | The task analysis will take the form of a consideration of the most likely or most dangerous failure and combinations of failures and the ways in which these will appear as indications in the control room . |
| 17 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 18 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 19 | Much less well-known but equally exceptional is this fish 's ability to see longer wavelength radiation than we or most other animals can . |
| 20 | If judgment is obtained in this country against someone in France ( or most other Community states ) , that judgment can be enforced in the country in question by virtue of the Brussels Convention ( on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments ) 1968 . |
| 21 | Æthelred can be known little better than Cnut or most other early medieval kings . |
| 22 | But run too far in unsuitable shoes , whether the cheapest or most expensive on the market , and your feet will tell you . |
| 23 | So as I sipped the barely brown dishwater he passed off as coffee ( at a wholly extortionate price ) I was able to thaw my limbs , re-line my stomach , rest my hand and ponder at length the best or most honest method by which to tackle the remainder of this difficult and embarrassing work of explanation . |
| 24 | The design process thus evolves around analysing alternative proposals until the correct ( or most acceptable ) compromise is found . |
| 25 | Thus an MCF is a multiple NIF , allowing the borrower to draw funds by whichever means is cheapest or most convenient at the time . |
| 26 | Because the map coordinates of the locations of the car and the service unit are represented digitally , the shortest or most convenient route between the two points can be worked out automatically . |
| 27 | Note that a judge or district judge may sue or be sued in accordance with the rules set out below , but if the court in which the action would be commenced is a court of which he is judge or district judge , then the action may be commenced in the nearest court or most convenient one of which he is not the judge or district judge ( Ord 4 , r 7 ) . |
| 28 | DEPENDING on who you talk to , Martin Lee is the most admired or most reviled public figure in Hong Kong ; a man of principle and courage , or a megalomaniac ; a defender of democracy , or an advocate of chaos . |
| 29 | Conventionally , those patterns whose left-hand or most significant bit position contains a zero represent positive values , and those where it contains a one represent negative values . |
| 30 | These two values are represented in fixed-point binary format , the exponent as an integer and the fraction with the binary point to the left of its left-hand or most significant bit ( although , as we shall see , the latter convention is not invariable ) . |