Example sentences of "the most [adj] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the many drawbacks the most ludicrous is that applications can be made only once a year at a certain time . |
| 2 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 3 | The most powerful is that the figures , inaccurate as they have turned out to be , convinced experts employed by big investors and banks such as National Westminster . |
| 4 | Numerous figures can be cited to support the view that specific types and ages of households tend to be thus affected , but perhaps the most telling is that 90 per cent of single-person households over the age of 60 years do not have a car ( table 6.1 ) . |
| 5 | Of biotic arguments for explaining greater tropical diversity , one of the most familiar is that there are more ‘ niches ’ than in temperate latitudes , arising from more habitats or more resources , but these hark back to environmental arguments ultimately . |
| 6 | The most obvious is that a larger amount of time is required from the writer . |
| 7 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 8 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 9 | The most obvious is that habitats are being destroyed . |
| 10 | The most obvious is that er an area had been inset because of the need for expansion of a settlement . |
| 11 | The most obvious was that the River Bollin could be harnessed to power the spinning machinery . |
| 12 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 13 | The most important is that the restructurings took longer : eight years in AEG 's case , four years in MAN 's . |
| 14 | It is relatively easy for an admissions authority to admit in excess of the standard number , provided various conditions are met — of which the most important is that the school buildings are adequate to accommodate the new number . |
| 15 | ‘ There are a lot of things that make Milton so good , but the most important is that he wants to do it , ’ says John . |
| 16 | The most important is that the Guatemalan government is responding to international pressure . |
| 17 | ‘ There are several reasons why I feel that the conversion must be devalued , but the most important is that , unless the conversion is devalued , a converted try would total seven points which would require the opposing side to score three times to be able to take the lead . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most important is whether the FMS and IRF-1 data can be reconciled . |
| 19 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 20 | The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most interesting is that their time must run in the opposite direction to our own : their ‘ future ’ is the birth of the Universe and their ‘ past ’ is its end . |
| 22 | To achieve this he carried it over roads and streams by means of aqueducts , of which the most notable was that at Barton ( two hundred yards long and nearly forty feet above the Irwell ) , crossed valleys by embankments , cut through hills where they were unavoidable , and followed the contours where possible . |
| 23 | However , in some important respects there are differences in treatment the most notable being as follows : ( 1 ) The hirer is granted a more limited right of termination under s101(1) of CCA 1974 . |
| 24 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 25 | The most likely is that the ferret has somehow shed her muzzle and has then killed a rabbit . |
| 26 | But of them all , Joan and Ted McDermott believe the most likely is that the killing was connected to the Kincora Boys Home homosexual scandal . |
| 27 | One of the most fundamental is that the pain syndromes as described should at any time actually respond to opioids . |
| 28 | The most significant are that the proposed SAS requires auditors to be active , rather than passive , and to perform procedures specifically designed to identify circumstances which might call into question the appropriateness of the going concern basis ; that the future period which should be considered by both the directors and auditors in assessing the validity of the going concern basis should be extended to one year from the date the accounts are approved by the directors ; and that emphasis is now placed on the need for adequate disclosures in accounts of matters giving rise to inherent uncertainties that affect a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |