Example sentences of "[adv] [that] most [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years .
2 Today we often ignore large areas of terraced housing and merely regard it as ‘ late nineteenth-century development ’ , forgetting perhaps that most of the population was then housed in them and indeed still is today .
3 In contrast , in both of the earlier studies structural integration was virtually impossible without knowing the overall theme , so that most of the information contained in the passage was lost by the time the important contextual/thematic information was supplied .
4 Lee also received National Assembly approval for a number of other major constitutional amendments , which reapportioned the seats in the three elected branches of government so that most of the delegates would be elected from Taiwanese ( as opposed to mainland Chinese ) constituencies .
5 So that most of the players mentioned will be from the 80s & 90s .
6 It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists .
7 Not that most of the 2,000 expected at Tabard 's Hertfordshire field will have any choice — the club does not possess a stand .
8 Apart from this a minimal amount of chemistry was mentioned — not that most of the participants would have noticed since they were lethargic to the point of unconsciousness .
9 The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes .
10 Buckingham Palace said yesterday that most of the rooms normally open in the State Apartments will re-open on January 16 .
11 She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother .
12 It is not clear from the article to what extent it was Dutch society that he was basing his analysis on , but given that he appears to be making a general point about changes within Western Europe , it is important to point out that most of the literature on youth , adolescence and relations between the generations in Britain has tended to concentrate on , to use Elias ' term again , the changing balance of power between the generations within the working class .
13 Walmsley points out that most of the increase involved the conviction of persons aged over 21 whose partners in the offence were also aged 21 or over ( the offence generally occurring , or at least being detected , in public conveniences ) .
14 Finally it was pointed out that most of the training did not meet the needs of specific groupings in the community such as women , people with disabilities and Travellers .
15 Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo .
16 As to Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. , it was pointed out that most of the heavy goods vehicles are not theirs but belong to their customers or carriers and that in any event it would be wrong to aggregate their respective contributions in the circumstances of this case .
17 But we found out that most of the vandalism was done in the daytime when we were away .
18 He points out that most of the effective lobbying of politicians occurs in the ‘ higher circles .
19 However they point out that most of the recent studies in Britain indicate that when linked to pre-course qualifications maturity is likely to be an advantage in Arts and Social Science subjects .
20 Which turned out to be towards a taxi , one of the few remaining on the dockside now that most of the passengers had gone ashore .
21 Lewis knew well that most of the dons would vote for David Cecil or E. K. Chambers .
22 America is the closest thing to a financial laboratory for these sorts of questions , so it is there that most of the answers should be sought .
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