Example sentences of "their most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both writers make light of this crossing from Fort Augustus to the middle of Glenmoriston , even though it must have proven their most arduous stage so far — eleven miles of high , hard going , ‘ cut in traverses ’ as Johnson says , ‘ so that as we went upon a higher stage , we saw the baggage following us below in a contrary direction . ’ |
| 2 | Many young girls lost what was then termed as their most prized possession … their virginity . |
| 3 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 4 | Their most spectacular coup by far was the discovery of Rommel 's headquarters . |
| 5 | It was in 1863 at the farmhouse at Camerone in Mexico that they had fought their most spectacular action . |
| 6 | Thus , on their most probable readings , His cousin is pregnant , His cousin is n't pregnant and Is his cousin pregnant ? will all be taken to contain a reference to a female cousin ; and an addressee , on hearing Drink it ! , |
| 7 | These are at their most impressive on the backs of the giant crocodiles , where they are lozenge-shaped and give these formidable reptiles the appearance of being covered in spiked metal armour-plating . |
| 8 | It is a fact that the creative instincts in man have found some of their most impressive outlets in producing poetry , music , beautiful writings , paintings , sculpture , buildings and other splendid things of many kinds , all for the glorification of a ‘ god ’ in some form or other . |
| 9 | But as the pollsters say again and again , even at their most accurate they can only give ‘ snapshots ’ of opinion at any given moment . |
| 10 | In 1641 , the Gaels rebelled again , this time against their most immediate oppressors , the Protestant planters . |
| 11 | Picasso and Braque turned to the objects closest to hand for their subject-matter , objects forming part of their daily lives and relating to their most immediate and obvious physical necessities and pleasures . |
| 12 | THE Bears turned on the power to grab one of their most satisfying wins of the season at Cleveland Park last night . |
| 13 | Celtic 's breakthrough goal came from their most fluent move . |
| 14 | The 1890s saw them at their most confident , both in terms of presentation and in the range of varieties offered ; the catalogues from Suttons and Webbs were especially impressive . |
| 15 | At their most confident , holists expect to supersede the need for any individualist explanations , and thus undertake to provide powerful and wide-ranging social theories . |
| 16 | In my experience , clients will not give up their contacts amongst the trade media and they feel at their most confident when talking to someone from a publication in their own trade or profession . |
| 17 | It is then not at all surprising that dancing and singing , in their most general forms , have been and have remained , in complex as in simple societies , the most widespread and popular cultural practices . |
| 18 | These changes , at their most general , are , first , the substantial development of the division of labour , inside cultural processes , and , second , forms of class division , related both to the specialized divisions of the process and to the ownership and management of the developed means of production . |
| 19 | The position then is this : we are investigating the equilibrium of normal demand and normal supply in their most general form ; we are neglecting those features which are special to particular parts of economic science , and are confining our attention to those broad relations which are common to nearly the whole of it . |
| 20 | The novelist Walter Gallichan spoke of The Blight of Respectability in the 1890s , and it was indeed their most central values that were most flagrantly challenged . |
| 21 | However , the only individual who appears to have a plan that will appeal to the developing world is Dr. Mustapha Tolba , head of the United Nations Enviroment Plan who proposed a users ' tax paid by the consumers of ozone depleting chemicals , to be collected by governments and used by developing countries both to modernise their production systems and to compensate the multi-nationals for the transfer of their most advanced energy effective technology . |
| 22 | I consider their most advanced processes and how I can interact with them . |
| 23 | Two kinds of experiment then led him to think again ; in their most advanced forms , they are called the ‘ fan ’ experiment and the ‘ step ’ experiment . |
| 24 | The scenario was that there was this normal , everyday family being filmed in their home at their most private moments and , in one scene , where a young boy is being pressurised into getting married , they all leave the room and he turns to the camera and says something like ‘ I 've got to be careful here . |
| 25 | Their answers are both forthright and fascinating as they reveal their most private thoughts . |
| 26 | We find that it is every bit as effective as the natural service , in fact , though I have n't seen the figures , it might just be slightly better because the mares are inseminated when they are at their most receptive . ’ |
| 27 | New residents are at their most receptive during the first six months . |
| 28 | Not only does the Junior School influence the children at their most receptive , and indeed their most vulnerable age , but , within the time spent in the Junior School , the child lays down the basis of all future learning . |
| 29 | That is still the case but , just as the services as a whole are having to come to terms with their most radical structural changes since the Second World War , their catering arms , whether involved in training or feeding personnel , are too . |
| 30 | ENGLAND suffered the ultimate humiliation under Graham Taylor when they crashed to their most embarrassing defeat in 43 years . |