Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] most [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questions on the core curriculum concerned its nature , i.e. whether it should be a narrow core or cover most of a pupil 's curriculum , and the way it should be expressed , i.e. in terms of school subjects or educational objectives . |
| 2 | Wait patiently and long enough at the start and the end of the day at different villus and you will see or hear most of Sri Lanka 's wildlife . |
| 3 | The government and leading banks reached agreement on Dec. 12 , 1989 , with the agro-industrial collectives ( kibbutzim ) to write off or reschedule most of their IS6,700 million debts in an attempt to save the collectives from collapse . |
| 4 | If he is drunken and disillusioned , owns a taxi or spends most of his time chasing higher academic qualifications with the express view of escaping from the job he is doing ( and all this happens very frequently in practice ) , he will be of considerably less value to the children under his care than a man or woman with humbler qualifications but greater maturity , integrity and interest in children . |
| 5 | By a process which almost seemed inevitable the State found itself directing a major part of the country 's industries , and controlling or licensing most of the remainder . |
| 6 | She came out of the cubicle to find a woman in a figure-hugging red dress , with a plunging neckline that revealed most of her tanned bosom , repairing her lipstick in the mirror above one of the washbasins . |
| 7 | Similarly the melting that produced most of the erupted lavas resulted in a limited and/or systematic fractionation of Sm/Nd . |
| 8 | It was the process of his metamorphosis from a 33-year-old into a 121-year-old that got most of the film 's pre-publicity . |
| 9 | The main determinant of territory size in predators is the resource dispersal in the territory , the distribution of the productive areas that supply most of the food for the predators ' hunting area . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that covers most of it . ’ |
| 11 | The largest drops in ozone in the northern hemisphere were in the region stretching from latitude 10° North , the area that covers most of Europe , Asia and the US . |
| 12 | Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’ |
| 13 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 14 | Now internationally recognized as a result of The Age of Unreason , a book that encapsulates most of his thinking on the future of work and organisations — for example , the concepts of ‘ portfolio ’ work for the over-50s , the ‘ shamrock ’ company with a small permanent core and contracted-out services — Handy is Britain 's only world-class guru and perhaps the closest thinker to Drucker in his range of predictive ideas on society . |
| 15 | A droll comment from time to time enlivens the dry information that fills most of the pages of a typical register . |
| 16 | This will involve new taxes and a cut in subsidies , including the huge fertiliser subsidy regarded as critical in the farming areas that hold most of the voters . |
| 17 | In the end , it is the technology of radio , the gramophone , television , and film that allows most of the barriers to be transcended , which is why Karajan , an élitist with a yearning to reach the widest possible international audience , invested so much of his time and his money in the quest for the high-quality dissemination of music to a world-wide audience . |
| 18 | And the Beckett Festival was phenomenally successful from our point of view because it was the hook that attracted most of the foreign critics . |
| 19 | The other side is an unusually fresh approach to new ideas , complementary therapies , and the kind of questions that put most of the medical establishment into a cold sweat . |
| 20 | And the big chest that comprised most of the newcomer 's luggage looked to be full of gold , Hugh decided . |
| 21 | In time , the tourist hordes will be drawn to the mountains that cover most of its land mass . |
| 22 | Picture the belt down across his chest with the sun glinting on the bullets that filled most of the loops . |
| 23 | Most of them can be put together quite cheaply but without ruining the style or atmosphere of the room ; on the contrary it 's often these that add most of the character to a room and reflect your personality better than the bought pieces which can look like everyone else 's . |
| 24 | Despite a major stratigraphic gap that includes most of the Jurassic and the Lower Cretaceous , there is little angular discordance between the shaly limestones and shales of the Rhaetic and Lower Lias and the overlying glauconitic sandstones and limestones of the Upper Cretaceous . |
| 25 | Economically , we can not afford to be excluded from a group that includes most of our main trading partners , including our biggest partner of all , the Federal Republic of Germany . |
| 26 | As we have noticed above , the success of any social dialectological project in a dialect-divergent community depends crucially on adequate methods of analysing linguistic variation , and it is this analysis that takes most of the time . |
| 27 | Most catalogues begin , usually with some proud and flamboyant phraseology , by describing the new varieties being introduced for the first time , and invariably , because they are the kinds that get most of the breeders ' attentions , these will be H.T.s and Floribundas . |
| 28 | But the fact is that spent most of his life , and most of his writings on an enormous work , even longer than the Golden Bough , er called the Welker Psychologie or Folk Psychology , and this enormous work , it 's in twenty three volumes or something , er , of , of , the Welker Psychologie is just like James Frazer 's writing and indeed Totem and Taboo . |
| 29 | In the silence that followed most of the chiefs were seen to be in tears and the council was dissolved until the afternoon . |
| 30 | They were most marked on the heavy clays that overlie most of the Midlands , which produced good pastures . |