Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] most [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 2 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 3 | Within Iraq , all too many of his political opponents managed to underestimate his capabilities , and for most of them it was fatal . |
| 4 | The hall is surrounded by 30,000 people and for most of them the state housing and welfare system is a failure . |
| 5 | Researches under the auspices of Britain 's Rare Breeds Survival Trust suggest that the indigenous breeds have not yet diverged enough from each other for a high frequency of chromosomal polymorphism to be established and in most of them the similarities far outweigh the differences . |
| 6 | Each addresses an individual prison and in most of them the author is either an ‘ outsider ’ or a foreigner , or both . |
| 7 | She did n't know what that prayer was but she wondered if they meant it or if to most of them it was … just words and phrases . |
| 8 | The inferences are systematic , they are decodable by different interpreters in the same way , and without most of them the exchange can not be understood ; most of them must therefore be part of what is communicated , in Grice 's strict sense of meant-nn . |
| 9 | So 156 MPs had some identifiable business interest , a little over half of the party , but for most of them some other interest seemed to predominate . |
| 10 | The boys are not best pleased — which is a pity because for most of them this is the highlight of their rugby-playing lives . |
| 11 | But for most of them it is clearly worth it , and Carol would struggle in even when she was not feeling well . |