Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] most [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 2 | You get the impression that Roberts could quite happily slag off most of his fellow ufologists in this way . |
| 3 | An audit office spokesman said : ‘ The Benefits Agency is quite confident it will track down most of the money . |
| 4 | And you would n't think of most of those . |
| 5 | In conditions of rising population , such as we may assume for most of this period over most of Europe , land is scarce and labour plentiful , and the lords may commonly compel land-hungry peasants to accept their terms . |
| 6 | Also , he had learnt English from a book and sometimes put the words in the wrong order , but it did n't matter for most of the time Endill knew what he was trying to say . |
| 7 | The Getty conservators will advise and train the Egyptians specialists who will carry out most of the work . |
| 8 | The material takes the form of supported self-study packages , so a student can work through most of the material alone while maintaining regular contact with a tutor . |
| 9 | ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks . |
| 10 | The maximum amount of cash you can withdraw from most of our machines is £500 per day , subject to there being sufficient money in the account . |
| 11 | However , I can only look at most of the styles you feature with envy as I have been very silly and think I may have damaged my hair forever . |
| 12 | Although this crude characterisation of the ‘ management mentality ’ does not exist in most of our schools , many teachers will recognise this description . |
| 13 | Put them into a product and you can take out most of the preservatives . ’ |
| 14 | They 'll filter out most of the pollen , and stop it getting into the lungs — very important for asthmatics . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , it does take up most of my time — that and moving into a new house . ’ |
| 16 | But there is a great deal you can do to ease your misery , alleviate the worst of the symptoms and let you join in most of the fine weather fun without spending your days in a darkened room with a crate of Kleenex . |
| 17 | ‘ They 'd pay for most of it . ’ |
| 18 | It was his tenant John Combes who revolutionized Reddish , on the assumption that Cray would pay for most of it . |
| 19 | At the very least , he will make it plain that Israel must one day let go of most of the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 20 | It is offering double the usual trade-in credit for customers turning in a System/36 or 38 in exchange for an AS/400 9404 or 9406 F model — and for the first time , the credit is more than you could get for most of the System/36 models on the used market . |
| 21 | By the late 1960s , it was accepted that the normal period of full-time economic employment would cease for most of the population at these ages . |
| 22 | Indeed , after lecturing on this work for twenty-five years , and though I could write out most of it from visual memory , it still sounds elusive . ) |
| 23 | But the French government which will pick up most of the tab through increased social security costs is giving the handout only to companies which toe the state policy on drugs . |
| 24 | You design your business so that it can live with most of the scenarios and actually profit from many of them . |
| 25 | After two months , they finally voted the plans out by five votes to four — their reasons included an objection to the height of the pyramid and the effect it would have on the view of the city , the loss of trees in the meadow and the huge shadow it would cast over most of Oxford . |
| 26 | I have to admit that this is a feature I can live without most of the time but I like to have access to one for important documents where a silly slip would be embarrassing . |
| 27 | The idea of diverting even one per cent of GNP to curtailing carbon dioxide emissions would seem to most of them too frivolous to be seriously entertained , unless , of course , someone else was willing to pay . |
| 28 | Correct design and a little careful planning will get around most of these problems . |
| 29 | The methods by which Berenzoid intends to sell the product are interesting and may actually get around most of my objections , as they intend installing the packages for their existing bureau customers . |
| 30 | Racing starts at 10–30am today and tomorrow and will continue throughout most of the afternoon . |