Example sentences of "in his most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as White , a frustrated three-times finalist , is well aware , that longing is not enough without self-discipline — a quality he amply demonstrated last year in his most concerted attempt yet to land the elusive prize . |
| 2 | He was said to have visited Saudi Arabia , Jordan , Qatar , Syria and Egypt , in his most extensive foreign tour in 31 years on the throne . |
| 3 | ‘ Please , maman , ’ put in the prince in his most wheedling tone . |
| 4 | When Mrs Funnell had visited him , she had upbraided him firmly for his deception and he , in his most plaintive voice , had said , ‘ I 'm a man , and it was either taking a decent woman or resorting to casual encounters . |
| 5 | At the door Gerald Seymour-Strachey said in his most patrician manner : ‘ I 'd be glad if you 'd let me know when Hilda Machin 's funeral is . |
| 6 | In his most critical speech of Mr Major 's administration , Sir Edward said it was wrong for parties to make pledges on taxation at elections . |
| 7 | In his most familiar guise , as a literary figure , he is brave , heroic , loyal , a good husband and father , a redoubtable foe and a man of honour . |
| 8 | In his most recent work , he has moved away from elaborate vessels and on to rough-textured jigsaw-like pieces — the ceramicist 's equivalent of collage . |
| 9 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 10 | Peter Brown in his most recent and profoundly important book Body and Society demonstrates movingly how sexuality had so different a social meaning from what it now carries that the sexual abstinences , the noisy and sometimes virulent demands for chastity and virginity , within the early Church , far from being a symptom of self-hatred and dualism , were a radical political claim to the coming of the Kingdom : a claim which women , sometimes even more than men , could make . |
| 11 | Perhaps his best known innovation , audience participation , is now well documented in his most recent publication ( 1981 ) — that we now take audience participation for granted is almost entirely due to the pioneering work of this very able teacher and director . |
| 12 | In his most recent work , L'Acacia ( 1989 ) , Simon again approaches , from another angle , many of the locations and themes of his previous novels . |
| 13 | Beverley Halstead has admirably avoided these pitfalls in his most recent book , which I find delightful . |
| 14 | His book Hit for Six ( 1960 ) was the literary consequence of Tate 's assault at Hastings , a ground commemorated in his most recent work Cricket at Hastings ( 1989 ) . |
| 15 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
| 16 | In his most recent book , The Essene Odyssey , he describes how , after reading our book in 1982 , he became intrigued by the mysterious principle allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templar under the name of ‘ Baphomet ’ . |
| 17 | In his most recent offer , on March 27th , he promised to supply them with food and services to ’ achieve an acceptable livelihood ’ in return for a ceasefire . |
| 18 | He would go to his evening reading in his most respectable suit and brazen it out . |
| 19 | If he were to look at his life rationally — as in his most philosophical moments he liked to think he did — then there was no questioning the profile . |
| 20 | But in fact George Brown had a considerable edge over Labour 's later candidate , David Owen , who offended the mandarins of King Charles Street with a quiet deliberation that was wholly lacking in George even in his most sober moments . |
| 21 | Mr. James Munby , appearing as amicus curiae , in his most helpful skeleton argument approached the matter as if 16- and 17-year-olds were in a special category . |
| 22 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 23 | ‘ You are Michel Debre , ’ he said in his most sardonic tones . |
| 24 | He is ‘ a villain ’ , but ‘ tragic ’ , and Dostoevsky continues in his most pushy vein , anxious that Katkov shall take notice , ‘ I have taken him from my heart ’ . |
| 25 | An account of anaphoric processing based on the idea that there are two broad classes of anaphoric expression was suggested by Sag and Hankamer ( 1984 ) , whose ideas were already known to , and tentatively endorsed by , Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) in his most complete account of the mental models framework . |
| 26 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ bellowed Pumfrey , in his most parade-ground voice . |
| 27 | In the church scene the words of the Anglican matins are made to allude heavily to Grimes 's troubles at almost every point : " we have erred and strayed from thy ways " just as Ellen notices the tear in the apprentice 's coat ; " 0 Lord open Thou our lips " with Ellen 's " John , what are you trying to hide ? " ; and finally " Amen " as answer to Ellen 's " We 've failed " , which Peter takes up literally in his most crucial phrase " So be it , and God have mercy upon me ! " [ 18 ] . |
| 28 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 29 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 30 | When he resigned from Stowe in 1936 in order to become a full-time writer , White spent some months in a cottage near the school experimenting with falconry , later describing the episode in his most successful book , The Goshawk ( 1951 ) . |