Example sentences of "its most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 2 | Ford has already announced that production of the Sierra — one of its most profitable and best-selling cars -will end at Dagenham next summer and be switched to Genk , leaving the Essex plant with only production of the new Fiesta . |
| 3 | The move follows the group 's decision to concentrate on its most profitable business , mineral water , which it says is expanding ‘ dramatically ’ throughout the world . |
| 4 | Privately owned land tends to move to its most profitable use but frequently obstacles , either physical or human , delay such movements , particularly where it is necessary to assemble adjacent parcels of land to form a viable development site . |
| 5 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 6 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 7 | The local store is rumoured to be considering Sunday closing after the loss of its most loyal customer ! |
| 8 | The CGT was rapidly losing control of even its most loyal factories . |
| 9 | The third and final volume is devoted to quantum theory and there he tells us that its first chapter will tackle the basic element of the mysterious behaviour in its most strange form . |
| 10 | Whatever may be our private feelings about the modern scholarship on Posidonius , one of its most durable results is the reconstruction of Posidonius ' chapters on the Celts . |
| 11 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 12 | Karl Marx has provided modern sociology and politics with one of its most wide-ranging and powerful theoretical approaches . |
| 13 | singled out by the Decree of an Inscrutable Providence from the midst of the Distinguished Multitude that Surrounded him , in the full pride of his Talents and the Perfection of his Usefulness , met with the Accident that Occasioned his Death ; which deprived England of an Illustrious Statesman and Liverpool of its Most Honoured Representative ; which changed a moment of the Noblest Exultation and Triumph that Science and Genius had ever achieved into one of Desolation and Mourning , and striking Terror into the Hearts of Assembled Thousands brought home into every Bosom the Forgotten Truth that ‘ In the Midst of Life we are in Death ’ . |
| 14 | One of its most powerful adversaries is Fredric Jameson who suggests postmodernism is ‘ an alarming and pathological symptom of a society that has become incapable of dealing with time and history ’ ( in Foster 1983 : 117 ) . |
| 15 | A way of life , a set of values and attitudes which , according to some social historians did n't emerge until the late 1800's when the British Empire was at its most powerful , when imperialism , nationalism and Toryism were beginning to figure prominently in the language of the pubs and the music halls . |
| 16 | The id is the centre of primitive desires and is at its most powerful , indeed it is extremely powerful , in the first months of life . |
| 17 | Hawke 's squadron , 28 strong , now bore down upon the French from windward at top speed , all sails set , and around 2.30 in the afternoon the eight warships in the van opened fire on the French rear division , the start of a fierce engagement which caused its most powerful unit , the 80-gun Formidable , to surrender , and three 74-gun warships , the Héros , the Superbe and the Thesée to founder . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 19 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 20 | Glam 's translation of this high art idea of camp into pop ( seen at its most powerful in Roxy Music 's ‘ In Every Dream Home A Heartache ’ ) , resulted both in a primitive post-modernism turning yourself and your body into an Art Object with all the irony and the distancing that that implied — and a mocking entry into a ‘ public ’ private fantasy , as it offered a cultural space for a mass white audience to play with hitherto repressed ideas about self , consumption , and masculinity . |
| 21 | And it is often at its most powerful and poetic when it is simple and direct — indeed , excessive complexity takes away from its effectiveness . |
| 22 | Lacking any military forces of its own , the UN is pathetically dependent on the goodwill of its most powerful members . |
| 23 | Our impression over a two week jaunt round the Republic was of a country shedding the shackles of its tortured past without sacrificing its most endearing features . |
| 24 | Possibly its most endearing feature is that all the control is executed from the Macintosh , the PC can be connected locally or over a telephone line with modems and , apart from being started up , needs no attention . |
| 25 | It was also in the Celtic countries that Romanization celebrated its most truculent triumph . |
| 26 | If anything , the surveys suggest that the public mood was at its most Thatcherite and right-wing in the second half of the 1970s . |
| 27 | Spartak have a good reputation away from the Lenin Stadium and the Kop will need to be at its most intimidating to be of any help to a Liverpool side whose only consistency this season has been their inconsistency . |
| 28 | Its most comprehensive statement of aims , theory , and practical guide-lines is given by J. Richard Hackman and Geoff R. Oldham in their book Work Redesign ( Hackman and Oldham 1980 ) . |
| 29 | At its most comprehensive it proposes an explanation of historical population trends and a forecast of trends in the developing world . |
| 30 | It can be no more tolerable than one of its most specific forms , behaviourism in psychology . |