Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies . |
| 2 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 3 | This was the most fundamental fact about the movies in Britain and America and it was to remain the most important fact throughout the great years of the cinema 's hegemony . |
| 4 | Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ . |
| 5 | Moreover , as AIDS starts to affect the most productive section of the community ( those between 30 and 50 years ) there is not going to be the skilled labour available in the future to supply enough food for the nation . |
| 6 | The trick was always to spot the most intelligent even when they were still puppies . |
| 7 | Ministers ensure that there are well-staffed press offices to promote the most favourable reception for their policies and decisions . |
| 8 | Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs , a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest , which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi . |
| 9 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |
| 10 | High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire-based Insignia Solutions Ltd was recognised for developing its widely-used SoftPC program that emulates the MS-DOS environment used on the IBM personal computer on incompatible Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes , and workstations from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp ; and S&S International Ltd , Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , gained an award for its Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which employs fuzzy logic to combat the most complex computer viruses . |
| 11 | Like the labour movement in its formative period — like Chartism , or the early trade unions , or the utopian communities — the social movements of the 1960s were movements of liberation seeking an adequate doctrine and mode of political action to combat the most oppressive features of the societies in which they developed ; thus they directed their activities variously against colonial rule , domination by external economic powers , the rule of feudal-military elites , ethnic subordination , the subjection of women , or the domination of society by a rigid , centralized and bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 12 | The NI has campaigned consistently over the years for more emphasis to be placed on primary health care than on expensive technological options — in other words for local people to be trained to combat the most basic diseases , as in China 's revolutionary ‘ barefoot doctor ’ system . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a bedrock of traditional liberalism to build on and it is here that we are likely to see the most substantial progress of all . |
| 14 | I wanted to see what mass unemployment is like at its worst , partly in order to see the most typical section of the English working class at close quarters . |
| 15 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 16 | For the purposes of this study , we will be focusing more on videoconferencing using digital links such as digital telephone lines because it is here we are likely to see the most rapid developments . |
| 17 | Look no further than your own garden to see the most interesting and often surprising colour combinations . |
| 18 | Any kind of ranching , logging or building provides a ready-made inroad for the farmers to penetrate the most inaccessible parts . |
| 19 | That 's just the type of magic necessary today to unhinge the most defiant defence in the world — and Barbarians and England captain Will Carling backs Barnes to call the winning shots . |
| 20 | And enough elderly people did survive as chronically sick , physically maimed , or mentally impaired , to sustain the most negative seventeenth-century images of old age as ‘ a perpetual sickness ’ , ‘ a disease ’ , a time of impotence in the widest sense , ‘ the dregs … of a man 's life ’ . |
| 21 | Most retailers want to achieve both of the above aims , so they need to plan the most appropriate advertising campaign . |
| 22 | The two main reasons for antenatal screening are ( a ) to plan the most appropriate place and mode of delivery to minimise the hazard to neonatal life and ( b ) to offer termination of pregnancy if the diagnosis is made before 24 weeks ' gestation ( previously 28 weeks ' ) . |
| 23 | At first glance it also looks like the perfect market of classic economic theory , where all potential buyers and sellers are simultaneously in touch with each other and able to agree the most acceptable price to meet their requirements . |
| 24 | But it does very effectively , so we were smart and snug and weatherproof as we went on to enjoy the most exhilarating walk of the entire weekend . |
| 25 | But it does so very effectively , so we were smart and snug and weatherproof as we went on to enjoy the most exhilarating walk of the entire weekend . |
| 26 | Christina Tracey of the Forestry Commission said the routes have been ‘ carefully selected to enable cyclists to enjoy the most attractive forest scenery in safety and avoid areas which are often heavily used by walkers or forest traffic . ’ |
| 27 | But the effect left in the mind by this UK and USA reservation is unfortunate : it suggests , rightly or wrongly , that these nuclear powers are prepared to support the most elaborate codification limiting the use of conventional force , but at the same time want to keep their hands completely free so far as nuclear weapons use is concerned . |
| 28 | I visualise a matrix even more subtle to taste the most intangible fruit of the soul ; and one day men will fall heir to a Golconda of the most beautiful emotions and joys , and from being mere trappers and hunters we shall become harvesters . |
| 29 | I have now supplied sufficient evidence of Agatha Christie 's erudition and remarkable range of source-material to silence the most sceptical critic of my thesis . |
| 30 | He was determined to restore order in the countryside , to avoid giving the impression that nobles could force him into concessions , and to silence the most determined of his critics , but he neither abandoned the task of implementing the emancipation statutes nor fought shy of enacting the additional measures to which freeing the serfs gave rise . |