Example sentences of "first and most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first and most quoted example of the genre , the Coventry-Solihull-Warwickshire study ( 1971 ) set the mould by using multiple regression analysis as shown in Figure 8.6 . |
| 2 | The first and most restrictive of these might be called the ‘ totalization ’ rule . |
| 3 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 4 | First and most radical , a new means of propulsion other than the internal combustion engine might be considered . |
| 5 | THE FIRST and most serious change that Professor Horst Rollnik has seen during his 19-year long career at Bonn is the vast growth in the number of students , in all subjects including his own , physics . |
| 6 | And when the economy began to collapse and the political optimism of the 1960s and early 1970s began to tarnish , it was women who saw our jobs , our wages , our support services and our educational opportunities become the first and most serious casualties of the new depression . |
| 7 | The first and most striking thing about these figures is the sharp fall which they show . |
| 8 | HMS SHEFFIELD , the first and most devastating British , naval loss of the Falklands War , was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile because the ship 's computer was programmed to recognise the Exocet as friendly . |
| 9 | Since then , after a series of well-publicised operations , to the consternation of her fans among the fundamentalists , she has been a woman - Turkey 's first and most famous transsexual . |
| 10 | Leeds Amateurs return to the Grand Theatre in their 102nd year to present a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein 's first and most famous musical , OKLAHOMA , first performance in 1942 . |
| 11 | This is reflected in the syllabus for the Institute examinations which are held at centres throughout the U.K. The first and most essential requirement of any student for any professional examination is that he or she must be able to communicate in the language ( in which he or she will be examined . ) |
| 12 | She returned to England on the death of her Father ; she did not attend the funeral ( in a picturesque little English church ) , but did become his literary editor and published the first and most authoritative biography . |
| 13 | Micrografx Inc , one of the first and most prominent companies to endorse IBM Corp 's OS/2 2.0 operating system , is backing off developing OS/2 applications , US PC Week reports : ‘ There 's no demand for OS/2 applications , ’ said Paul Grayson , chief executive of the Richardson , Texas , company — ‘ We do n't see the rationale for making additional investments in OS/2 applications when there 's no apparent demand for the ones on the market . ’ |
| 14 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 15 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 16 | Seabirds were the first and most visible casualties of the slick , with up to 20,000 estimated killed . |
| 17 | Well erm the er th th th the first and most horrific incidence was I think in the May , no no no it was n't May , it was when we went down to s to Cats in London which was at the end of eighty nine beginning of ninety and I went to , I went to the the doctor in June of nineteen ninety and odd things were sort of going through nineteen ninety , but it was n't until nineteen ninety one and I was off ill and it all went |
| 18 | The first and most accessible was that used by tourists , rich and shoestring ( ‘ poor ’ was a word with a precise , living meaning here ) as a base for their trip to Machu Picchu . |
| 19 | The first and most powerful image projector today is television . |
| 20 | The first and most powerful emotion was pride in what this moment meant for so many millions , and especially for their leaders , who had succeeded in making this return after 22 years of isolation conditional on the genuine opening up of cricket to all South Africans . |
| 21 | That is my first and most powerful memory of separation from my mother , and even though it lasted only a year , those feelings of rejection and insecurity have coloured my life . |
| 22 | I returned to my first and most potent objection . |
| 23 | His first and most spectacular project in this period was the new Antrim coast road of 1832–7 , which involved much blasting and tunnelling in the cliffs between Larne and Ballycastle . |
| 24 | The first and most critical stage in his exercise of power was the formulation of a " will " . |
| 25 | The first and most general cost has been to give the impression that Official Unionists would not be welcome in the Free Church . |
| 26 | A short stroll amid the usual birches , boulders and close-cropped grass brings the first and most continuous section to hand . |
| 27 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 28 | It was indeed the first and most urgent measure of good , and they breathed the more easily for it ; but they read in the tone no less the failure of his mission . |
| 29 | the first and most complicated is Methode Champenoise — this is used to make champagne and most other good sparkling wines . |
| 30 | The first and most compelling has been the war in the Gulf . |