Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the freedom most users find when they move from the word processing market into desktop publishing many early documents resemble Victorian handbills in design . |
| 2 | At the outset of the degree most students are not sure of where their future path lies although most go on to enter the legal profession . |
| 3 | Toys were shown to the child in pairs , one a particularly attractive and interesting toy , of the kind most children would want to touch , the other with much less appeal . |
| 4 | Although by the turn of the century most of the food adulteration that had characterised the nineteenth century grocery trade had disappeared , customers were still cheated by unscrupulous retailers who gave short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging around products such as tea . |
| 5 | At the end of the day most departments have to be left alone to implement policies . |
| 6 | In the intense heat of the day most of them fell silent and withdrew into the gum trees , where they disappeared as if by magic among the bright green leaves . |
| 7 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
| 8 | Mr McCue had seen the ski jump being used and commented : ‘ I saw very few people actually ski from the very top of the ramp most of them start half way down . ’ |
| 9 | Because of the way most bureaux are structured , it is usually hard for the advice worker to remain blissfully unaware of the length of the queue . |
| 10 | I kept out of the way most of the day . |
| 11 | He ordered the construction of the Karlovy Most ( Charles Bridge ) and began the rebuilding of the Hradčany Castle and St Vitus Cathedral which still dominate the Prague skyline . |
| 12 | Some novices choose to sail with more experienced sailors , but by the end of the week most have the confidence to help a more exciting dinghy . |
| 13 | During the first year of the war most of the Trotskyist groups in Britain collapsed and the Fourth International recognized the Workers ' International League as its official section . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the research most of the children referred had been in care for shorter periods of time and were still in more or less meaningful contact with members of their natural families . |
| 15 | But in such a variation on the theme , the influence of carbon dioxide has to be set very small , only one tenth of the strength most climate modellers currently accept , otherwise it would have overwhelmed the volcanic influence and caused the Earth to continue warming through the 1940s , 1950s and 1960s . |
| 16 | yes , but they do know , le let's go back a bit further , but they do know at the beginning of the world most of it is water |
| 17 | Because of the severity of the undernutrition most patients require ten to twelve weeks of in-patient treatment during which time they begin to eat normal meals . |
| 18 | In the immediate aftermath of the emancipation most landowners felt even less warmly towards the imperial bureaucracy than they had felt in the past . |
| 19 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 20 | In the early stages of the term most of the children were writing individually , although there was a fair degree of collaboration over spelling , ideas for writing and reading one another 's work . |