Example sentences of "[was/were] most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also of significance that Mason 's effects were most apparent with novel strings of letters . |
| 2 | The staff on the SCBU were most supportive and sensitive to my needs , although it was n't their normal practice . |
| 3 | Established internationals Gord MacKinnon and Pat Palmer represented the national team squad at the CRU 's recent three day planning meeting in Vancouver and were most supportive of a decision to implement fitness testing for all the country 's top players as an ongoing requirement . |
| 4 | Unionists were most distinct from Liberals and from other generations of Conservatives in their age ; the average age was only fifty in 1914 , there were four Unionist MPs under thirty and sixty-two under forty , and half of the party had been under forty when first elected . |
| 5 | Such ventures , however , left out those who were most disturbed or withdrawn and hence who found it most difficult to work ; these were left to idle their time away on the wards , and it was always a struggle to find sufficient financial investment in equipment and raw materials to establish and maintain occupational ventures . |
| 6 | The Mail , Express and Sunday Times were worried about its effect on moral standards , but the majority of the national press were most favourable , particularly the Daily Mirror which exclaimed , ‘ Do n't be shocked by this Report . |
| 7 | On that cold , snow-laden winter day Bere and his brethren were most welcoming , but the abbot 's anxious lined face and short-sighted eyes betrayed his fear at having the powerful Agentes within the sacred walls of the abbey . |
| 8 | Much was to be gained by involving the older farmers who , in general , were most resistant to the idea of training , and by working to extend training opportunities for wives . |
| 9 | Women were most resistant to his strictures , claiming that when they served the goddess , they were never short of food . |
| 10 | But it was in the French army of the first half of the century that the mercenaries were most prominent . |
| 11 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |
| 12 | Immunostains for ET-1 and big ET-1 and expression of ET-1 mRNA were most prominent in airway epithelium and type II pneumocytes , particularly those lining areas of young granulation tissue . |
| 13 | Moreover , despite the ideological differences on the Left , which were most acute between 1929 and 1934 , there were strong sentiments in favour of " working-class unity " in the abstract . |
| 14 | In her view , it was bourgeois women who were most oppressed by social definitions of female purity . |
| 15 | By these means , D. H. Hubel and T. N. Wiesel were able to discover what optical stimuli were most effective in inducing activity in particular axons . |
| 16 | Using crosses , dots and circles , it was possible to find out which patterns were most effective in frightening away the birds . |
| 17 | Gym class was the place where we were most vulnerable . |
| 18 | In other words , when the disaster came , it was the big animals that were most vulnerable , and at the time the big animals were all , as it happened , dinosaurs . |
| 19 | A clear result showed that it was the Phoenician readers who were most vulnerable to the presence of irregular words . |
| 20 | It was true that some of the team who were sent were among those who were most experienced in the use of the gifts of the Spirit , but others soon emerged to take their place in the mother church . |
| 21 | At home I ‘ rationalised ’ ( the word used in my diary ) the kitchen cupboards , according to a system in which items most frequently used were most accessible , and vice versa . |
| 22 | Bass players of the time were most unhappy about the situation , though ; their instrument , the double bass , was exceedingly bulky , very fragile and did not take at all well to the rigours of touring , especially if strapped to the roof of a car , as many were . |
| 23 | Reg and I were most vitriolic about the risk to which we had been exposed and hoped that the Germans would be just as inefficient . ’ |
| 24 | If their buildings were garish then so , too , were most Victorian creations . |
| 25 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 26 | But the target of Mrs Thatcher 's wrath was equally well known when the day after the budget in a public speech she said : ‘ Now what really gets me is … that those who are most critical of the extra taxes are those who were most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure . ’ |
| 27 | Separatism was right there in the middle , influencing all women , and , despite themselves , even those who were most vociferous in their resistance to our ideas . |
| 28 | But other internal pressures were most strong , on the one hand towards providing a type of education both in quantity and quality which ‘ we had been denied ’ , on the other towards meeting a need for high level manpower which the authority of the international planners then recognised as paramount . |
| 29 | It was the woollen weavers who were most alarmed , fearing that the proposed reduction of import duties on French wines to the same level as those on Portuguese wines would provoke the Portuguese to lay a high duty on English woollen goods , or even prohibit their import altogether , which would be the " Utter Ruin of that Trade " . |
| 30 | All the GIST schools were mixed comprehensives , and at first teachers were most unwilling to separate boys and girls at all , on the grounds that it ran counter to their co-educational comprehensive philosophy . |