Example sentences of "have [vb pp] most [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malta was on short rations and the menu was sparse but we must have consumed most of the champagne remaining in the club cellars . |
| 2 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 3 | You will already have considered most of the factors under ‘ operational implications ’ , but do n't forget that you need to allow for the tea , coffee and biscuits that the second conference will be consuming in substantial quantities . |
| 4 | The people who would have suffered most from Mr Moore 's penal approach are the 1.6 million children in one parent families . |
| 5 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |
| 6 | And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1 |
| 7 | Though Clinton may have clinched most of the Jewish vote with his down-the-line promise to treat Israel more gently than President Bush does , the irony is that , for Jews and gentiles alike , his blatant Big Apple vote-seeking has done nothing to make him look principled or even presidential . |
| 8 | I loved We were such good friends ( September SHE ) — in fact , I could have written most of it myself . |
| 9 | Its author , who may have written most of every entry between 991 and 1016 , has a distinctive and somewhat dramatic style , and knew a great deal . |
| 10 | Oxbridge University Colleges may have produced most of our nation 's leaders for generations . |
| 11 | And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place . |
| 12 | Since teachers were the main resource in PNP , it is teaching — and hence learning — which should have benefited most from the Council 's initiatives . |
| 13 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 14 | Thousands of young people will be spending this Christmas on the streets because they have no home to go to , and over a third of them will have spent most of their childhood in care . |
| 15 | HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital . |
| 16 | Even if this were the case , there would still be the social problems experienced by mentally handicapped people who may have spent most of their lives in a hospital and find it difficult to cope with a completely new environment . |
| 17 | That 's the season when coloured hollies or laurels which may have spent most of the summer masked by the bright herbaceous flowers in the foreground , take centre stage and preside over the border . |
| 18 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |
| 19 | I have to say I must have spent most of my time in the toilets . |
| 20 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |
| 21 | Art is indeed a mystery — a ‘ truth which is above reason ’ , and here are two facets of it , which , if we are honest , must have perplexed most of us . |
| 22 | And then they were gon na have cut most of that off to replace |
| 23 | It was true that Ted Mosse had turned out not to be too honest , even in his best uniformed days , had run various little corruptions and been found out , but it did not seem the sort of bad behaviour that would have worried most of working-class South London . |
| 24 | Leeds sup– porters may have terrorised most of England but they were n't around in Copenhagen on the night the volcano erupted . |
| 25 | I was thinking to myself that he would have blown most of it on horses and strong drink . |
| 26 | He knew I 'd be interested in the reward money before he started telling me all the details , otherwise he 'd have kept most of it to himself . |
| 27 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 28 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 29 | Any decent terrorist could have levelled most of the base . |