Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observations suggest that most of the smoke particles were in the form of soot ( elemental carbon ) particles with diameters of around 0.1 um . |
| 2 | ‘ I suggest that most of the sentiments you express so forcibly are your own , Mr Peck . |
| 3 | He adds that most of the performers are cautious about who they bed . |
| 4 | He did not even know that most of the Scottish host had already cast off everything that weighed it down , and taken to flight , acknowledging the truth of this meeting . |
| 5 | In fact , it is expected that most of the growth in work will come , not from big firms , still less from manufacturing , but from new small firms . |
| 6 | Some authorities , notably Gilbert , maintained that most of the material was supplied by longshore drift and that the waves merely acted on this material : others , especially de Beaumont , considered that the material contained in the bar was eroded from the sea bed in front of the bar , as is shown in Fig. 8.18 . |
| 7 | He said that to " accuse to the government of fostering violence [ was ] an insult " and maintained that most of the violence was the result of ethnic and political conflict between ANC supporters and those of the mainly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 8 | Penrose also claimed that most of the money needed for Blake 's escape had not ( as Bourke had claimed ) come from Blake 's mother . |
| 9 | I expect that most of the children will have had their injuries dealt with . |
| 10 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 11 | She was great as Beattie — and it was heartening to find that most of the other winning ads had humorous themes . |
| 12 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 13 | Miles Kington found that most of the Burma Road ( Great Journeys , BBC-2 ) is even wetter . |
| 14 | The committee found that most of the complaints were justified and recommended improvements which resulted in the conditions of service and promotion prospects of the staff being brought into line with the rest of the Civil Service . |
| 15 | But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas . |
| 16 | Allowing for transactions costs , they found that most of the mispricings were underpricings . |
| 17 | Anne had to make many detours to reach the factory and felt triumphant when she arrived there , but she found that most of the women had come in . |
| 18 | Similarly , Wright found that most of the victims in his sample had received no injuries . |
| 19 | I found that most of the animals in the circuses were looked after with a great deal of care and attention . |
| 20 | ‘ In general , we found that most of the errors are reasonable confusions between similar words or sequences of words , such as arriving → arrive in , were in → were n't , on first → Connifer 's , that are in → centering . |
| 21 | Mature N. lapillus are thought not to grow ( Moore , 1936 ) but Moore ( 1938a ) found a preponderance of females amongst the largest dog whelks ; he thought this is due either to differential growth rates in the two sexes or to differential onset of maturity.Feare ( 1970c ) also considered that most of the oldest individuals were female . |
| 22 | They may reject what they regard as middle-class or old-fashioned values and delight in looking as dirty and scruffy as possible , championing people and causes that most of the people their parents mix with would not consider acceptable . |
| 23 | Pravda reported that most of the ‘ thousands ’ of letters it had received asked the simple question : ‘ When is the war going to end ? ’ |
| 24 | Tanjug reported that most of the approximately 600,000 Serbs in Croatia had failed to participate in the elections . |
| 25 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 26 | All the bread and rolls we used and most of the cheese were donated by surrounding shops and hotels . |
| 27 | They er were recommended And most of the they were clean jobs . |
| 28 | But on the whole I do n't think that most of the men have changed their ideas or attitude that much . ’ |
| 29 | Why do you think that most of the people in this room do n't read newspapers ? |
| 30 | Put it this way , M' lud : my client thinks that most of the values of the society in which he lives stink , and he hopes with this book to promote fornication , masturbation , adultery , the stoning of priests and , since we 've temporarily got your attention , M' lud , the suspension of corrupt judges by their earlobes . |