Example sentences of "most [prep] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first generation of Compton FELs ( 1975–85 ) was built around available electron accelerators , most of which had been designed for nuclear physics and were therefore not optimised as FEL injectors . |
| 2 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 3 | In Yorkshire for example , the formal acts of parliament of the late eighteenth century were far more concerned with the enclosure of the upland pastures than with open-field land , most of which had been enclosed by agreement long before . |
| 4 | But even at the end of the eighteenth century there were still in Norfolk about eighty thousand acres of unimproved common , and some sixty thousand acres of warrens and sheep walks , most of which had been enclosed and converted to arable fields or woodlands by the middle of the nineteenth . |
| 5 | In 1714 more than a third of the debt was in the form of fixed-term annuities , most of which had been floated before 1710 and which cost an annual £800,000 to service . |
| 6 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |