Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under them are battlefield commanders , most of whom operate under code names such as Korn , Siab , Chan , Sok . |
| 2 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 3 | For every person who leaves Paris , two move to the suburbs ; the Ile de France now has a population of some 10 million , most of whom work in the capital . |
| 4 | By the end of 1922 the size of the guberniia Party organization totalled 5,925,9 compared with , for instance , 3,286 local officials of the Commissariat for agriculture , most of whom were not Party members , but who , by the very nature of their work as surveyors , land-reclaimers , timber and livestock experts , were scattered more widely round the rural areas than were Party workers . |
| 5 | A Shadow Cabinet containing senior figures like Lord Carrington , Whitelaw , Prior , Maudling , and Pym — most of whom had already achieved office under Mr Heath , were associated with his policies , and owed little to her — was hardly right-wing . |
| 6 | Norway , excluding Svalbard , is a third as big again as the UK with a population of only four million , most of whom live in Oslo , a fine city with one of the best museum complexes in Europe . |
| 7 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 8 | Some 1,200 Italians — most of whom committed atrocities in Yugoslavia — were listed by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , but none was handed over . |
| 9 | They joined the rest of their colleagues — most of whom had already been suspended — in the rest room of Europe 's largest ambulance station , where they were watching a video of A Bridge Too Far . |
| 10 | Despite the initial support of the boycott by international operatic stars — most of whom were at the time on contract to work with him — Barneboim 's case did not excite much public sympathy in France . |
| 11 | The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines . |
| 12 | Disagreements between the founder 's ten sons , most of whom have had two or more wives and so lots of their own children , nearly tore the group apart . |
| 13 | Applying environmental laws is up to Spain 's regional governments , most of whom still think of emission standards as how fast building permits are issued . |
| 14 | Indeed , when Mosley addressed a meeting of 1,500 people at Leeds Town Hall in May 1934 it was estimated that only about 400 fascists were present , ‘ most of whom had come to Leeds by bus . ’ |
| 15 | When Mosley addressed a meeting of 1,500 people at Leeds Town Hall in May 1934 it was estimated that about 400 fascists were present ‘ most of whom had come to Leeds by bus . ’ |
| 16 | In Berlin itself , there are over 4,000 Vietnamese , most of whom live three to a room in cramped hostels , paying well over the odds for the privilege ( Germans living in the same accommodation pay considerably less ) . |
| 17 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 18 | Given the beleaguered state of Ulster , it is not surprising that there should be a high degree of cohesion among the Protestants , most of whom were members of either the Irish Presbyterian Church or the Church of Ireland . |
| 19 | Many did not , however , and charges were dropped against 30 other officers , most of whom were implicated in the cover-up rather than the massacre itself . |
| 20 | THE BLUEBIRD album is a collection of singing by men most of whom could n't , strictly , sing . |
| 21 | Such a result would mean one of the largest-ever Labour intakes , with at least 120 new faces joining the 206 Labour MPs standing for re-election — most of whom are confident of winning . |
| 22 | The nature of the Premier League club chairmen , most of whom are highly successful businsessmen , not without confidence in their own judgement , makes it almost impossible for them to give others carte blanche . |
| 23 | Young moves round the corner to Toto 's in Walton Street , checking the cars , hoping the drivers — most of whom know him — will give him a whisper of what 's going on . |
| 24 | Having recognized that , we must avoid the danger of maintaining paraprofessionals ( most of whom are women and many of whom are members of disadvantaged minority groups ) in marginal positions in society by locking them into low-status and low-paying jobs . |
| 25 | This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content . |
| 26 | 3,000 youngsters , approximately , will participate and audiences are likely to run at around 15,000 , most of whom will be young people . |
| 27 | This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall . |
| 28 | The report also found that the overwhelming majority of lone parents are women , most of whom are divorced or separated ; single mothers are the smallest group of lone parents . |
| 29 | Crudely put , authority and leadership began to move from traditional leaders , be they the old pro Jordanian élite or the post-1976 pro-PLO mayors ( most of whom had been eliminated by the authorities ) , into new but less visible hands . |
| 30 | By this time the original confrontation between marchers and police had given way to a general battle between the police and young residents of the Bogside , most of whom had taken no part in the march . |