Example sentences of "[be] [conj] most of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you intend to fight a missile duel , the chances are that most of your highly mobile force will attract a disproportionate amount of your enemy 's firepower and will die the death . |
| 2 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 3 | Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing is that most of us were good friends , many of us still are . |
| 5 | The tragedy is that most of the transmissions from Astra are in the old-fashioned PAL TV system , with analogue sound . |
| 6 | The problem is that most of us are so busy rushing around that we fail to become aware of those feelings and to consider what they might be telling us . |
| 7 | Part of the reason for this increase is that most of the motorway network was built during the 1960s and that , as the roads have got older , so they need more spent on them . |
| 8 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 9 | ‘ The difficulty for so many people in towns is that most of the information about the countryside is in the country . |
| 10 | One of our problems is that most of us live in towns . |
| 11 | This leads to the inevitable question ‘ Where does it all go to ? ’ and the simple answer is that most of it goes to several firms specialising in BOB ( Buyer 's Own Brand : ie , supermarket brands etc . ) |
| 12 | The truth is that most of us eat ( and drink ) more calories than we think we are eating ( and drinking ) in the course of a day . |
| 13 | A common denominator both of these critiques and of positivism and natural law theories , is that most of them speak about the law — even if this is seen to have many facets . |
| 14 | The problem is that most of the things that sociologists are interested in are abstract . |
| 15 | The result is that most of the great palaces are only partly restored , the parks only just beginning to take shape again . |
| 16 | Its chief problem is that most of Cambodia 's leading political actors seem to have an interest in continuing conflict . |
| 17 | One of Europe 's peculiarities is that most of its nations fall quite neatly into one of three categories , in terms of population and political-economic importance . |
| 18 | One of the reasons why English is , perhaps , not a straightforwardly ‘ feminine ’ subject is that most of its teachers in higher education are men , and most of the authors and critics studied are also men . |
| 19 | The problem with sub-£10 champagne is that most of it does n't taste very good . |
| 20 | A reasonable assumption to make on the basis of the instructions given to registrars before 1986 , therefore , is that most of the deaths of children classified as unoccupied will have been registered by economically inactive lone mothers . |
| 21 | What is not clearly stated in the text but is easily deduced from the tables is that most of the proposed ‘ preventive ’ measures in these 39 cases/ 1000 are not really preventive at all but , rather , treatments carried out after birth : 15.7 are neonatal surgical procedures for congenital heart defects , pyloric stenosis , and inguinal hernia ; 15.4 are standard orthopaedic procedures for congenital hip dislocation and club foot ; and 1.8 are postnatal treatments for a variety of other conditions . |
| 22 | Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television . |
| 23 | One incidental problem often faced with PageMaker is that most of the final editing gets done ‘ on the page ’ . |
| 24 | Probably the most decisive argument for the free personal social services is that most of their recipients are already so poor that charges bring little revenue . |
| 25 | The sad thing is that most of us have never considered the humble potato as a precious gift from nature — so how about a run down of its amazing , exotic origins on the back of crisp packets ? |
| 26 | The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan . |
| 27 | ‘ However , the fact is that most of the work is being done in-house using existing resources . |
| 28 | One thing which has struck me very forcibly through the years is that most of the classic evolutionary lineages of my student days , such as Ostrea-Gryphaea and Zaphrentis delanouei , have long since lost their scientific respectability , and in spite of the plethora of palaeontological information we now have available , there seems to be very little to put in their place . |
| 29 | One reason for that is that most of the thousands of people who travel on those wretched trains to come to London to work are either unskilled or semi-skilled , to use the terms of the manufacturing industry . |
| 30 | A particular advantage of studying in Scotland is that most of its universities are within convenient travelling distance of each other , so that it is easy to extend the range of academic contacts to include other Scottish Universities . |