Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report also found that the overwhelming majority of lone parents are women , most of whom are divorced or separated ; single mothers are the smallest group of lone parents . |
| 2 | In some cases , certainly , it is the result of a free choice on the part of individuals , most of whom are concentrated in the higher social classes where financial security , other than through earned income , is common . |
| 3 | This applies especially to the life of the more affluent , most of whom are concentrated in the advanced societies . |
| 4 | Many did not , however , and charges were dropped against 30 other officers , most of whom were implicated in the cover-up rather than the massacre itself . |
| 5 | On Dec. 13 , Greek police were reported to have arrested 500 Albanians , most of whom were said to have entered the country illegally over the previous year as the situation of ethnic Greeks in Albania deteriorated . |
| 6 | In Whitehorse the RCAF personnel maintained close relations with the USAF base there , and I was soon on speaking terms with the Americans , most of whom were engaged in flying or servicing aircraft operating between the States and Fairbanks , Alaska . |
| 7 | He was writing in the Origin for readers most of whom were steeped in Victorian optimism , religion and the romantic movement . |
| 8 | At the end of the day , Alfonso escaped with barely 500 men , most of whom were wounded . |
| 9 | In the UK , by January 1991 , 38 cases of AIDS in children have been reported , most of whom were infected before birth . |
| 10 | He replaced seven ministers , most of whom were thought to be planning to stand as candidates in the legislative elections due in the first half of 1992 . |
| 11 | The victims of the death squads were usually the poor and destitute , most of whom were abandoned street children and petty criminals . |
| 12 | The structure of most of them is known ( 2 ) and their biological functions are now successively being revealed ( 3 ) . |
| 13 | Most of them are gone . |
| 14 | There were fifteen sisters here , but sadly most of them are gone now the old originals |
| 15 | Now , with Government aid , most of them are employed in new light industries . |
| 16 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 17 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 18 | When the remainder of the known fortified sites are plotted on a map ( fig. 7.1 ) most of them are seen to be distributed along three routes : |
| 19 | Most of them are listed under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1990 , but restrictions imposed by the Act will not come into force until 1995 . |
| 20 | There are nearly a hundred rooms , but most of them are shut and locked . |
| 21 | For instance , discharges frequently run from septic tanks in the grounds of country cottages , many of whose occupants are old people who have the sympathies of field men , since most of them are believed to be badly off . |
| 22 | She said most of them are lived in anyway so you can go anytime it suits . |
| 23 | The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate . |
| 24 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 25 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 26 | ‘ And most of them are touched when it 's a question of Coeur de Lion . ’ |
| 27 | Most of them are tilted in their orbits at an identical angle to Earth 's ( the exception being the inner and outer two planets ) , proving that they have all evolved together . |
| 28 | Most of them are produced by women , who provide insights that come from relating female experience to a body of writing ; logically , there is no reason why these insights should not be available to male critics with the right sympathies and sensibility , but in practice most of this criticism is by women . |
| 29 | The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan . |
| 30 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |