Example sentences of "[prep] most " in BNC.

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31 Ready-mixed developers are also available ( some require diluting ) which take out most of the guesswork of developing the board .
32 She rode out most afternoons and gradually built up a familiarity with most parts of the Lassiter lands .
33 Later scientists thought that a succession of ‘ heat waves ’ arising from radioactive decay in subsurface materials , and by the gravitational collapse of the solid lithosphere , was responsible for sweating out most of the water vapour .
34 Under Richey 's direction , Kennedy , A. G. MacGregor and Simpson carried out most of the work .
35 Put them into a product and you can take out most of the preservatives . ’
36 Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol .
37 ‘ When Mal picked the Lions team for the tour of Australia last summer he left out most of the Welsh players , ’ said the Salford full-back .
38 ‘ My wife is out most of the time . ’
39 Which makes new Gold for Cooking just about the only way you can cut down on fat without cutting out most of your favourite dishes .
40 IF YOU check out most of the serious blues books about the Mississippi players , you 'll be pushed to find a lot of stuff in there about John Lee Hooker .
41 Not only is it impractical , and possibly unethical , to restrict psychobiological studies to work on humans and great apes but it would also mean throwing out most of the work done to date , since most of that has involved the use of non-primates like cats , hamsters , and especially rats .
42 No new ones were created after Pennsylvania , and over the next fifty years the government bought out most of the proprietors ' rights .
43 Now it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that during the intervening twenty-five years the lord had bought out most of the freeholds , which , with few exceptions , must have been very small , and might just be identified with the sixteen ‘ Farme Landes ’ .
44 The Getty conservators will advise and train the Egyptians specialists who will carry out most of the work .
45 The loss adjusters acted very quickly and have carried out most of the salvage work for me , leaving a few , normal forms to be filled in .
46 Until 1983 the District Audit Service carried out most of this work in England and Wales with the balance being audited by commercial auditors approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment .
47 Malcolm 's brother Donald Bane declared his right to the throne , and in violent tirades against English influence in the country rallied forces to drive out most of Margaret 's entourage .
48 They 'll filter out most of the pollen , and stop it getting into the lungs — very important for asthmatics .
49 Insecticides have wiped out most mainland colonies .
50 Constanza was out most of the time but when she dropped in to change , there they were , rattling Italian to each other , poring over Anna 's art books — ’ Bet you 've never been inside Sant'Agnese in Oscurità ? ’
51 I stepped into a cool , dark room , where heavy wooden shutters kept out most of the daylight .
52 They are out most nights visiting a post office somewhere or repossessing cars .
53 The government , through a rigorous cash limits approach , is forcing local authorities to carry out most of the unpopular cuts in actual services .
54 In practice , the Stylus 800 appeared to bear out most of Epson 's claims .
55 Frauenfeld was unlucky in the eighteenth century when two disastrous fires wiped out most of the town .
56 Bonham was a founder-member of the Carlton Club from where he carried out most of his work .
57 But the turkey farm developed elsewhere and Councillor Thomas worked arduously to Iron out most of the bureaucratic formalities which Bernard hated or ignored .
58 Indeed , after lecturing on this work for twenty-five years , and though I could write out most of it from visual memory , it still sounds elusive . )
59 The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated .
60 His schedule had worked , but only because he seemed to be carrying out most of it himself .
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