Example sentences of "most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly " form " even in its most denuded days had a necessary content for design . |
| 2 | It would , he thought with a smile , be most unfitting to explode on landing under the circumstances . |
| 3 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 4 | And finally she said , ‘ That 's the most vulgar thing I 've ever seen in my life . ’ |
| 5 | YEAH ! ’ is , of course , the only thing you really have to say about this record , the first DEAD LOUD pop song whose chorus was the most vulgar thing a British group had ever sung , whose chords were monsters , whose drums suggested the possibility of imminent noisy sex . |
| 6 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 7 | Not even the most unreconstructed Keynesian would ever claim that the General Theory was an easy read . |
| 8 | NICRA was the largest and most representative civil rights organisation but it was only one part of the civil rights movement and the original , pre-October NICRA was swamped by hundreds of new activists and thousands of supporters . |
| 9 | Among that most representative breed of ministers , Moderators , it is even closer to the mark , and without consulting the records I can think of the Very Reverends MacLeod , Fraser , Craig ( Archie ) , Craig ( Robert ) and Reid , as examples . |
| 10 | The tawny owl produces the most representative prey assemblage from its habitat , including rare species , but the barn owl preserves the original community equitability more closely by concentrating on the more common species at the expense of missing the rare species . |
| 11 | Writers are among the most sensitive , the most intellectually anarchic , most representative , most probing of artists . |
| 12 | It is also worth pointing out that the ELR can field one of the most representative ranges of ex-Western motive power , as the steam fleet can be supplemented by ex-BR ( WR ) diesel-hydraulics , |
| 13 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |
| 14 | Not every author who has something to say on the subject of post-war sexual morality is included in the following discussion of each of the five categories , but rather those who are considered to be most representative of each genre are discussed . |
| 15 | Whilst by no means an ideal data base , WIRS does provide the most extensive and most representative survey information currently available on employers ' use of temporary labour in Britain . |
| 16 | however , the strategy should switch from defence to attack such that these sites ( and others that may not qualify as the finest , rarest or most representative examples ) are protected as sources of biological quality ( Ffynnon Bywyd ? ) from which an impoverished countryside can be recolonised through schemes like ‘ Tir Cymen ’ and ESAs ; |
| 17 | A new survey for 1993 , ‘ Pay and Benefits in the Hospitality Industry ’ , will give the most representative review ever of the payment structure and wage costs in the UK hotel and catering industry . |
| 18 | Moreover , as was suggested by Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , the simplest and most representative single overall measures of arousal may be verbal ratings . |
| 19 | This point was particularly underlined by the Chairman , QC , when he stressed the importance of the role and profile of this Committee , as the most representative of Committees within the Bar Council . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most resonant phrases in the whole debate came from the pro-rights organiser who suggested that future centuries would come to regard our attitude to animals with the same horrified disbelief we now feel for the periods which practised slavery . |
| 21 | John Wain 's The Contenders ( 1958 ) ends with the most resonant and decorous of all English four-letter words , ‘ home ’ , and the emphasis on a familiar term is the concluding point of the novel : ‘ In English I said ‘ Home ’ . ’ |
| 22 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 23 | The theme of twin brothers is among the most resonant , and among the earliest , of all cultural/religious motifs . |
| 24 | And yet sometimes I wonder if the wittiest , most resonant irony is n't just a well-brushed , well-educated coincidence . |
| 25 | The festival is also screening POISON , one of the most controversial American films for a long time , which has caused storms of protest in the States and will be a film that has everyone talking . |
| 26 | He was also a disciple of Ezra Pound , more ( one suspects ) because Pound was ‘ the most controversial , dynamic and stimulating figure in modern literature , ’ than for personal rapport between the two men . |
| 27 | Such freedom is one of the most controversial areas in the scheme . |
| 28 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 29 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 30 | Davies had become the most controversial player of this tournament . |