Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That track might have been the boundary of the world for some villagers , most of whom rarely ventured beyond their nearest market town . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result represented a victory for the " moderate " current associated with President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , already apparently favoured by the pre-election screening which eliminated about a third of the prospective candidates — most of them reportedly belonging to the more radical faction . |
| 4 | He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly . |
| 5 | Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman . |
| 6 | Some of them helped , but most of them just stood in their doorways and watched . |
| 7 | France has 40 resorts and Spain 31 , most of them little known over here but none the worse for that , provided you can speak the appropriate language . |
| 8 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 9 | There were people everywhere , hundreds of them , most of them beautifully dressed for the highlight of the midsummer festas . |
| 10 | When we got there the cranes had already left but the marsh still resounded with the calls of waders , most of them now looking after young . |
| 11 | So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast . |
| 12 | During the period under discussion there have been a considerable number of such pressure groups — for example , the Nationwide Festival of Light ; the Order of Christian Unity ; the Responsible Society ; the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , LIFE , as well as a host of other , smaller groups — most of which actually originated in this period . |
| 13 | Most of us religiously plough through the manual , certainly a good way to start , finally making our first effort , say a fully fashioned stocking stitch sweater . |
| 14 | Most of us only share for financial reasons . |
| 15 | WHEN IT comes to lettering , everyone is a bit of an expert ; most of us intuitively respond to the message of a particular typeface . |
| 16 | Within the developed street network , the evidence indicates a surprisingly wide range of buildings and a marked level of architectural pretension , though most of it clearly belongs in a third- or fourth-century context . |
| 17 | Within the education service , expenditure in 1989–90 planned by the DES ( most of it actually spent by LEAs ) is divided as shown in Figure 8.2 . |
| 18 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |