Example sentences of "[Wh det] most of [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 2 | Oh yeah we we if if it 's if you 're on a thirty percent and mo which most of them would be if you 're on a thirty percent commission assignment then the other five percent just goes in the pot . |
| 3 | In the American state of California , people have a life-style which most of us would envy . |
| 4 | Which most of us will have a mortgage protected against death , I E , the sum assured is released to repay the loan , what happens if we get a critical illness , heart attack , stroke , etcetera , and ca n't work . |
| 5 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 6 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 7 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 8 | After all , if the self is felt to be nothing , any strategy adopted to enhance or promote it , desperate though it may be , is a step towards what most of us would consider to be health , and an action necessary for survival . |
| 9 | Even Bleuler himself considered what most of us would now recognise as a truism : that ‘ autism ’ is a feature of normal mental life , accounting for the emergence , or in some cases deliberate exploration , of ideas that arise without logic from unconscious layers of the mind . |
| 10 | However , to be serious , while flexitime , certainly in the way it is put forward , is what most of us would describe as a ‘ complete nonsense ’ for area staff , it does embody a legitimate concern . |