Example sentences of "most of the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was true , I did and er , and I did reasonably well at most of the games that I play but er I played cricket for St John 's and I played when I was in the army at this last time and er , and erm , you , you know it 's I , I think if you make up your mind and you 're fit enough . |
| 2 | Most of the agencies that we shall be describing in the following sections would claim to offer information , advice and assistance but some are dubious as to the extent to which they should take action on behalf of a client and some will refer a matter on to specialists when they reach the limits of their competence . |
| 3 | If we now adopt Grice 's meaning-nn as the scope of meaning in the definition of pragmatics in ( 9 ) , we shall include most of the phenomena that we want to include , like the ironic , metaphoric and indirect implications of what we say ( elements 5 , 6 and 7 in Table I.I ) , and exclude the unintended inferences that intuitively have no part to play in a theory of communication . |
| 4 | Most of the teams that we 'd organized that we sent notes round to start at seven thirty . |
| 5 | I believe that most of the incidents that I have described will strike a chord with the vast majority of black people . |
| 6 | Michael Martin , a 50-year-old management consultant and author of business books , spoke for most of the crew when he told us : ‘ The circumnavigation is a fantasy , but one of the big questions is what are we going to do when we get back . ’ |
| 7 | Unless they demonstrated their loyalty , Jordan would be keen to be rid of most of the refugees before they became a source of sedition . |
| 8 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of the sounds that we are surrounded by are not musical sounds , ’ Gaver argues . |
| 10 | He narrates most of the film and his real-life son Guillaume plays his character as a young man . |
| 11 | She now participates in most of the exercises and her doctor ca n't believe the change and improvement in her . |
| 12 | So it 's in the Fire Service that we 've actually got time posted , and in fact most of the things that we wish to charge for we 're actually statutorily prohibited from doing . |
| 13 | most of the things that I 've done have been on Atlantic salmon and you put in Atlantic salmon and you get seven thousand eight hundred |
| 14 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 15 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 16 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 17 | But most of the problems that we get are not caused by deliberate cheating , they 're caused by genuine mistakes . |
| 18 | Had she known more about healthy eating and what was right for her body , she might well have been able to prevent most of the problems that she experienced . |
| 19 | But , let's face it , most of the twelve-year-olds that I teach seem to know nothing about mathematics — and care even less ! ’ |
| 20 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 21 | Dent is so refreshingly different from the city environments of most of the visitors that it would be churlish to deny them this glimpse of a way of life that belongs to history . |
| 22 | The clouds covered most of the sky and there was little light from the moon , and none ahead of me at all . |
| 23 | The punishment took him most of the afternoon and his legs felt weak and wobbly when he finished . |
| 24 | M I mean , let's be fair I mean most of the stallholders that I 've found in Nottinghamshire erm are perfectly honest and reputable and many of them been there many years anyway . |
| 25 | Now most of the stuff that we 're , just about all the stuff that we 're dealing with are functions . |
| 26 | Because most of what I have said is fair m most of the case that I wish to put er has come out in the discussion that there has just been . |
| 27 | The action has lasted most of the day and it is now early evening but still light as we have a short sharp skirmish with the enemy rearguard . |
| 28 | JH : It is notable that most of the music that you feel closest to responds ( perhaps not all that surprisingly ) particularly well to Schenkerian analysis . |
| 29 | It 's followed 's Road most of the way but it 's it went different routes some places just to take away a steep . |
| 30 | She 'd pushed her bicycle most of the way before she collected enough sense to get on and ride it . |