Example sentences of "[be] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're most of the time you 're getting it right cos this is just making the right sort of guess and you 're seeing the sort of When it gets to the awkward ones y you 're just sort of Well maybe it 's that , maybe its something else . |
| 2 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 3 | To swim a distance of 3.1 kilometres in five hours , with a solid roof and no air space above you , visibility often zero and only a thin nylon line to follow , must be most people 's idea of the worst dive in the world … |
| 4 | It would appear to be most of this is Kwiksave Supermarket . |
| 5 | and six pound fifty then week cos I wo n't , you wo n't have them on Monday but if she keeps working it 'll be most Mondays anyway |
| 6 | Was William a love child , kept in the background because of the embarrassment , or were most of the records of his existence obliterated after his untimely death , to give solace to a stern and autocratic murderess ? |
| 7 | But if every man here used his vote as he should and put a Labour government not only in the State of New South Wales but throughout the dominion , not only throughout the dominion but the Commonwealth , not only in the Commonwealth but throughout the world — ’ Bobby was enjoying himself now and so were most of his audience , standing under the afternoon sun. ’ — then the working man will have his true voice and he will make it heard in the corridors of power , for we will be the new power then — and we will use it for the greater good of all . |
| 8 | Why were most of the tin mines in Cornwall closed earlier this century ? |
| 9 | Where were most of these ? |
| 10 | On which coalfield were most of these ? |
| 11 | In addition to Linford there were most of the British track stars from Stuttgart the year before — Steve Cram , Tom McKean , Roger Black , Tim Hutchings , Colin Jackson , Kirsty Wade , Yvonne Murray . |
| 12 | This was especially the case when the relationship between lord and vassal was somewhat remote , either because the vassal was virtually independent of his lord , as were most of the vassals of the king of France , or because the vassal had many different lords . |
| 13 | The Feathers Hotel is the principal inn , and was used on hiring days , as were most of the other original public houses , this being an agricultural area . |
| 14 | Not only were most holdings too small to provide much work for hired labour , but the big villages that would have housed such a workforce did not exist . |
| 15 | Eleanor , it is true , was a patron of literature and art , but so were most princes and certainly Henry II was . |
| 16 | Oliphant , a nuclear physicist , was new to radio technology — as were most of those he later recruited . |
| 17 | Horne 's principal architectural achievement , the chapel of the Ascension , Bayswater Road , partly modelled on Santa Maria della Grazie at Pietrasanta in Tuscany , was destroyed by bombing in 1940 , as were most of his London buildings . |
| 18 | It was in a sleazy neighbourhood , but then again so were most places in the City . |
| 19 | They were both in evening dress , as were most of the people in the very crowded foyer . |
| 20 | Norma Major was terrified of her , but so were most people . |
| 21 | Such also were most of his friends : Sulien and Alfgar of Mercia , for example . |
| 22 | Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence . |
| 23 | Since most Europeans were rural , so were most migrants . |
| 24 | I have many happy memories of a time when the world was innocent as were most of us . |
| 25 | It is difficult to describe life in a large mentally handicapped hospital to people who have never seen one , which is most people . |
| 26 | The Centre for Research on User Studies asked its respondents to indicate ‘ topics for which you think there is most need for external provision of training ’ , and while there was little evidence of lack of interest in external training or lack of perceived need , there was also little evidence of discrimination between needs that could be met by a range of methods and needs that could only be met by external provision . |
| 27 | For example , management training , which figured prominently as a topic for which there is most need of external course provision has been noted as being very suitable for courses run by own local authority central training units : ‘ Training courses designed to teach managerial techniques can be aimed at candidates from all kinds of professions and different departments , and it will be extremely beneficial for library staff to mix with colleagues from other departments and disciplines . ‘ |
| 28 | Getting on with living is most people 's answer to the question . |
| 29 | Deane is most people 's choice to play centre forward for England against Spain here to-morrow in a system manager Graham Taylor is almost certain to change . |
| 30 | A police spokeswoman said : ‘ Coming home to find someone has broken in is most people 's worst nightmare . |