Sentence examples for have been uppermost from inspiring English sources

As for boyfriends, she had some, but aesthetic preoccupations seem to have been uppermost in her mind.

A retrospective of Italian furniture design may not have been uppermost in your mind when you planned a trip to Las Vegas.

Those concerns may not have been uppermost Friday as the nation swooned over the wedding of Prince William and his longtime girlfriend, Kate Middleton.

But another rift opened by the stand-off in Ukraine, between Russia and the West, continues to widen.Geopolitics may not have been uppermost in the minds of Ukrainian voters.

As the work's original designer, Mark Lancaster, joined the dancers onstage, one of the women asked me in alarm, "Is that Merce Cunningham?" When I broke the news of Cunningham's death to them, sorrow may not have been uppermost in their minds.

Concern about the outlook for consumption will have been uppermost in the MPC's minds at the committee's first meeting of the year.The British Retail Consortium reported this week that sales in December were the worst in the history of its series which goes back to 1993.

"We wanted to do something for the refugee crisis as this has been uppermost in our minds over the summer and autumn.

McCoy then revealed that concern for the health of another friend, Ed ­Chamberlain of Sky Sports, had been uppermost in his mind before the race.

No full-on warm-up Tests have been scheduled, all information is carefully drip-fed, peace and quiet has been uppermost.

Having reached this point I could no longer contain the question that had been uppermost in my mind during the two-hour bus ride from Manhattan.

Jesus, he says, I thought you was meaning to hit me! and there is an angry, fearful light in his eyes that says he does think just that, or that the thought of violence has been uppermost in his mind.