Example sentences of "[adv] most of the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So most of the time I 'm an exile . |
| 2 | So most of the people who were having abortions were people who were having a child by some other man ? |
| 3 | Usually most of the people who 've had coursework and exams to do over the1561 |
| 4 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 5 | 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately . |
| 6 | Now most of the people who come to see us have never sold advertising have never wanted to . |
| 7 | She chuckled at her romanticism : even most of the historians who had taught her at Cambridge sported tattered leather jackets and greasy jeans . |
| 8 | Nowadays most of the wood which is used in engineering is laminated in one way or another . |
| 9 | Given all the circumstances , it is difficult to see how most of the problems which arose could have been foreseen . |
| 10 | ‘ I tend to keep quiet about it — otherwise most of the women I know would want me to draw up their horoscope ! |
| 11 | Yet most of the actors he 'd assembled had n't worked in that way before . |
| 12 | At first I was brazenly happy , bullish with solipsistic joy ; yet most of the time I was puzzlingly , naggingly unhappy . |
| 13 | Yet most of the people who sink huge quantities of beer wine and spirits in their own living rooms give hardly a thought to the damage it causes their health . |
| 14 | Yet most of the buildings we see today date from the 12th century or later — Henry II 's great medieval fortress , strengthened in the 13th century , was remodelled by Georgian and Victorian engineers to keep it up to date . |
| 15 | There is a garage/café where souvenirs of a kind can be bought but only a very good marketing man could come up with something stunning from a spot where most of the time nothing is happening . |
| 16 | you know in terms of , not necessarily the precise content , but you can get erm some general idea about how people have studied the mental life of blind persons and how , you know , maybe it 's interesting that er presumably most of the people who 've studied it are themselves sighted rather than blind themselves you know |