Example sentences of "most of [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norwich did have other chances , top scorer Mark Robins seeing a superb volley ruled out for offside — but most of those came towards the end of the game as desperate Oldham charged forward in a vain attempt to gain a point . |
| 2 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 3 | Most of those consulted by the Commission are Anglican and they were asked to give their views on ten specific points . |
| 4 | Most of those collected on the continent are well represented in temperate southern latitudes ; some are cosmopolitan , and a few ecologically prominent species are bipolar ( Longton 1985 ) . |
| 5 | Although most of those named in the letters are well-known for their persistent campaigning over Northern Ireland , there are still more than usual and the timing created maximum embarrassment for the Government . |
| 6 | Unlike most of those reading for the Bar or enrolled in university he felt a responsibility for less privileged Africans washed up on British shores , mainly seamen , who had no recognised place in Britain . |
| 7 | Most of those caught in the siege of Makati spoke highly of the rebels . |
| 8 | These arrangements , which range from splendid pavements with naturalistic displays to simple geometric mosaics , include most of those attributed to the original Corinian school ( Smith 1965 ) . |
| 9 | Most of these live in the province of Sichuan with others in Gansu and Shaanxi . |
| 10 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 11 | More than 300 kg N , 80 kg P and 560 kg K were recovered per hectare per year by this method and most of this passed through the pigs and was used as fertilizer for the cropped fields . |
| 12 | Documentaries , news and current affairs programmes have produced a diversity of information and opinion about AIDS and its relationship to gay men : most of this occurred within the explosion of interest in AIDS in 1986/7 , as a response to the growing concern about the threat of AIDS to heterosexuals . |