Example sentences of "a most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1772 Butaye wrote that the border region of southern West Flanders formed , with a region of North Flanders in France , between Lys and Yser , the breeding centre of a most homogeneous red race which comprised 95 per cent of the region 's cattle . |
| 2 | ‘ As cage birds they are as interesting as can possibly be imagined ; for , independently of their highly ornamental appearance , they differ from all the other members of their family that I am acquainted with , in having a most animated and pleasing song ; besides which , they are constantly billing , cooing , and feeding each other , and assuming every possible variety of graceful position . |
| 3 | For the Great and Terrible Beast of Riverbank — once a most hated enemy — had become a much-loved friend . |
| 4 | With me it was all too simple and evident , my behaviour — and I was a most law-abiding child — caused my parents pain , and as I could do nothing about it , certainly nothing to improve it , except to cease to exist , I grew more and more guilty . |
| 5 | She stood there , timidly , full of a most mordant rage . |
| 6 | Although this may seem to be of more interest to a mountaineer it does give a most convincing sense of reality to his hills and this without a sterile exactitude . |
| 7 | A little African ground squirrel gave a most convincing performance when examined by a zoologist . |
| 8 | However , the three-way tone section allows this to be EQ 'd out and careful setting up of the guitar and amp or PA enables the 1992-H to put out a most convincing acoustic sound . |
| 9 | They are drawn in a pictorial style which not only does away with the need to use abstract symbols , but seems to bring each incident to life in a most convincing way , especially when studied alongside the text ( see two examples form the book accompanying this article ) . |
| 10 | In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all . |
| 11 | .. a most terrible appearance , the dense mass of clouds being covered with a murky tinge , with fierce flashes of lightning ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |
| 13 | When he heard that he had to wait still longer for his dinner , he began to growl and lash his tail and curl his whiskers in a most terrible manner causing the poor farmer 's knees to knock together with terror . |
| 14 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 15 | ‘ This is a most astonishing contrast with the moral response , you see . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell Lady Franklin , ’ Gould instructed his wife in a letter to Hobart , ‘ I have her little page with me , he is a most interesting little fellow , throws the spear and waddy with the utmost dexterity and [ is ] extremely useful to me in the bush , an eye like a hawk discovers birds nests & eggs in a most astonishing manner . ’ |
| 17 | First of all it 's a , it 's a most astonishing theoretical phenomenon that this should happen , and in fact it took a whole half of century later before an explanation could be found as to what , what was happening . |
| 18 | Schoolboys reveal themselves as having only a thin veneer of ‘ civilization ’ which , once the constraints of authority are removed , disappears , laying bare their ‘ true nature ’ which is violent , domineering , and competitive , resulting in the survival of the fittest in a most literal sense . |
| 19 | Runnymede offered a most appropriate site for such a memorial on account of its historical associations and its closeness to London and Heathrow . |
| 20 | This ‘ allowing ’ of the light to shine through seems to bring us back , full circle — a most appropriate feminine symbol — to the collective again . |
| 21 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 22 | And consequently I think the er probably locations of park and ride facilities around the periphery of York , is a factor that should be taken into account when selecting a most appropriate transport corridor . |
| 23 | Sport ; , I will argue , can have a most stimulating , uplifting impact on the participant and instil in him a fresh thirst for achievement in sporting and other circles . |
| 24 | Even with the technical drawbacks mentioned above , this is a most stimulating reissue . |
| 25 | But despite this , Foucault 's essay on The History of Sexuality does offer a most stimulating challenge to traditional historical accounts , partly because of its undermining of conventional approaches , partly because it is an aspect of a much wider intellectual effort , whose implications are likely to be of major importance . |
| 26 | A most stimulating discussion of ‘ quality ’ forms a thread in Robert M. Pirsig 's novel ‘ Zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance ’ . |
| 27 | With relief Maggie finally left the hotel , realizing that it now was a most unsafe place to be . |
| 28 | The D-32 is made of Indian rosewood and has gold Gotoh machines , while the D-18 has the chrome versions and is built from a very attractive wood called Mutenye , or Ovangol — something like walnut , but very strongly straight-grained and with a most becoming yellow-brown colour . |
| 29 | ‘ Anything that can be come to encourage companies to increase their efforts or to consider exporting as a viable means of increasing profitability has to be seen as a most worthwhile and objective exercise . ’ |
| 30 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |