Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [noun pl] [prep] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a key result because it covers the cases of most interest : the solar system effects and simple black holes . |
| 2 | This still outclasses the results of most of the world 's airlines , which collectively lost billions . |
| 3 | Yet Labour leads the Tories in most polls and the only party to make significant gains during the campaign — the Liberal Democrats — has actually promised to increase the standard tax rate . |
| 4 | And it is this that also characterises the responses of most of the correspondents who covered either Vietnam or Cambodia or both . |
| 5 | Disengagement is just one of many social theories which underlie what Phillipson and Walker ( 1986 ) call ‘ Acquiescent Functionalism ’ — ‘ a body of thought about ageing which attributes the causes of most of the problems of old people to the natural consequences of physical decrescence and mental inflexibility or the failures of individual adjustment to ageing and retirement , instead of to contemporary developments of the state , the economy and social inequality ’ . |
| 6 | It was a large , rather forbidding and gloomy building , called Battersby Grammar School , and it was on the fringe of that decayed , desolate , once-grand grey fringe that surrounds the centres of most cities ; the houses in this area , large and terraced and of some dignity , had been long abandoned by the middle classes , and were now occupied by families who could not afford to live anywhere else . |
| 7 | The task of finding enough food for their offspring dominates the lives of most parents during the breeding season . |
| 8 | An all-pervading smog of dust and dung fires clogs the lungs in most cities , all food is a lottery and western-style entertainment is hard to find . |
| 9 | Jackson already owns the rights to most of The Beatles ' songs and would , if successful , suddenly have shares in former label-mates Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross . |
| 10 | He reads and digests material on a vast range of topics and picks the brains of most of the leading authorities . |
| 11 | On the international front , BRC spearheads the concerns of most British agencies involved with refugees worldwide . |
| 12 | It also houses the records of most of the city livery companies . |
| 13 | The huge number of prosecutions for wood stealing supports the views of most commentators on the South and East that scarcity of fuel was a major aspect of the poor living of rural labourers . |