Example sentences of "most of the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the fact that most of the Völkisch parties in the city blamed the Poles for all their problems , relations between Poles and Germans in the city were spiky but surprisingly good . |
| 2 | Absolutely necessary for most of the fantasy cakes in this book , and for all cake decorating . |
| 3 | Can find the volume of a 3-D cuboid given a 2-D representation Most of the success rates for items exemplifying this criterion were around 40 per cent . |
| 4 | Housing represents most of the capital assets of local government . |
| 5 | Removable covers can be purchased for most of the lounge suites on offer . |
| 6 | General obedience is taught by most of the Rottweiler clubs to new handlers as a public service exercise and this early training sometimes inspires people to go on to do greater things . |
| 7 | In theory there is sufficient geothermal energy under Cornwall to meet most of the electricity requirements of southern England . |
| 8 | But I think I would be giving you the wrong impression if I suggested that most of the evaluation studies with which I 've been concerned have involved this kind of conclusion , or this kind of result . |
| 9 | Whilst most of the maincrop varieties of potatoes are suitable for baking , Maris Piper , King Edward , Désirée and Cara are especially good for this purpose . |
| 10 | Although most of the mill buildings at Ryeford have now gone , a substantial timber works still occupied the site until recently . |
| 11 | Their conclusion is clear : ‘ there is no doubt that most of the structure plans of the 1970s paid little attention to the market demand for housing . |
| 12 | Most of the motility studies on irritable bowel syndrome patients have been conducted for brief periods of time in the very distal portions of the viscus . |
| 13 | He , for one , slept through most of the afternoon sessions in order to be at his best for the partying which took place every evening . |
| 14 | As a jeweller , Walter Sheaffer was familiar with most of the pen makers of his day . |
| 15 | Since 1979 this desire has been manifested in the European Monetary System , whereby most of the member countries of the European Community have agreed to limit the fluctuations of their respective currencies . |
| 16 | Although most of the ministry adoptions in the area have gone local , there are useful sales to be made in several sectors . |
| 17 | Most of the slimming clubs around have very good diets which are easy to follow and you would have the benefit of the group leader being able to give you more personal advice . |
| 18 | Their conclusion was that most of the road signs in such studies are in fact initially detected and that differences found between signs and the poor overall performance in the Johansson and Rumar study must be to a large extent a memory effect . |
| 19 | Not all the major living groups of organisms were present in the Cambrian , however , because the colonization of the land did not take place for another 200 million years , and so there were obviously no direct ancestors of land plants around , or of most of the land animals with which we are familiar today . |
| 20 | To my chagrin , I found , back in present-day Clonmacnoise , that most of the stone slabs with strange carvings of Celtic saints , reminiscent of Celtic gods , had been taken indoors and put in glass cases under bright lights in the accursed Centre . |
| 21 | By the end of the 1960s the motorway network had linked up most of the commuting areas between the major conurbations and the in-filling of commuter villages between such radial transport routes had virtually been completed . |
| 22 | Most of the wine lodges in Funchal welcome visitors and are willing to offer samples of the various blends . |
| 23 | But most of the population forecasts from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys suggests probably going to about fifty eight million by the early twenty-first century or the turn of the century , but the structure will be different . |
| 24 | In the present study we go beyond this result by making controlled B I -B II transitions involving most of the dinucleotide junctions of the dodecamer and discussing both the energetic and conformational aspects of such transitions . |
| 25 | Why were most of the tin mines in Cornwall closed earlier this century ? |
| 26 | Most of the source countries for drugs are outside the European community and we would deal with vessels from these places as we have always done , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Pam , most of the morning papers of course , have had er , glowing tributes , quite rightly so , to Danny Blanchflower , we 've had a lot of people on this morning saying that we 'll never see his like again . |
| 28 | Most of the car thefts in the Province take place in the Greater Belfast area and the people who carry out the thefts are often called ‘ joy riders ’ . |
| 29 | Here the imagery of traditional female occupations contrasted with high status technology is representative of most of the policy documents of gender inequality in education . |
| 30 | The majority of it is in private ownership but livestock are almost always excluded and regeneration of woodland is not prevented as it is in most of the upland woods in the UK . |