Example sentences of "most [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was inevitable , she supposed , when America was seen by most through a haze created by its films — the greatest publicity stunt ever . |
| 2 | But most through midnight streets I hear |
| 3 | Gilligan 's work is remembered most through detailed biographical cases , like those of Amy and Jake . |
| 4 | Among other effects this has freed the old Gotthard road between Fluelen and the Gotthard Pass from most through traffic ( as , indeed , it also freed the southern section of that road beyond the pass into the Ticino ) . |
| 5 | A rising and coloured River Tees below Croft meant a struggle for most during the Thornaby AA February Cup . |
| 6 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 7 | I grieved for him , for Fiona , for all of them , but most for Harry . |
| 8 | Jim Fleeting , the ebullient manager at a Kilmarnock club hungrier than most for promotion , offered himself to the fraternal elbow of big brother Bobby , the club chairman , and resigned . |
| 9 | She 's beautiful and cute and brighter than most for a five-year-old . ’ |
| 10 | Kissing or touching another man in a sexual way or even just going out for a drink without telling a partner is regarded by most as being unfaithful . |
| 11 | Whom do I remember talking to most as a child ? |
| 12 | The American executive branch of the state is overwhelmingly staffed by the upper class ; Congress serves at most as a place in which dissident members of the upper class can air grievances . |
| 13 | It is in the USA that residential preference has been invoked most as an explanation for decentralization ( Berry 1976 ) , perhaps partly as a return to old ideas of the frontier and the rural idyll , as Champion ( 1987 ) suggests . |
| 14 | And if you 're feeling peckish , well what do you enjoy most as a bit of a takeaway treat ? |
| 15 | Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA . |
| 16 | This was regarded by most as a just reward for helping to raise over £50 million for the cause , but the more sinister downside was that a few less scrupulous characters realised that supporting charities could boost flagging careers and chart positions . |
| 17 | Rather , I have wanted to recover the history of each in relation to the other , finding in the process that Gide understood more than most about desire for the different , Fanon more than most about the ambivalence of difference itself . |
| 18 | Rather , I have wanted to recover the history of each in relation to the other , finding in the process that Gide understood more than most about desire for the different , Fanon more than most about the ambivalence of difference itself . |
| 19 | Hue and Cry are the most interesting of the new pop sophisticates , not so much because of the music , but because singer and lyricist Patrick Kane is an intellectual firebrand who 's more sussed than most about the contradictions and complexities of trying to infiltrate intelligence into the world of teenpop . |
| 20 | Sunlight penetrates down into clear ocean at most about 200 metres . |
| 21 | ( Psychologists believe that the human mind remembers information in batches or chunks of at most about eight items . |
| 22 | For the complete cube , the results so far lead us to believe that one can always restore the cube in at most about 22 moves . |
| 23 | True , Chelsea know better than most about gravity after the way their annual hopes come crashing down — just like Isaac 's apple , in fact . |
| 24 | The nucleus contains almost all of the atom 's mass , the electrons contributing at most about 1/2000 of the whole . |
| 25 | Being thoroughly miserable is what people like MOST about being ill ! |
| 26 | What Daugherty had liked most about New York Nights was the performance of the ex-Broadway actor John Wray as the gangster Joe Pivaldi and he told his readers that this characterization would stay with them for months . |
| 27 | Basically , The function is the same as for the Language Master — a recording can be made of written language which is displayed for the pupil — but the Audio Page runs for 4 minutes where the Language Master only provides at most about 10 seconds of time . |
| 28 | Zeng knew more than most about Peking , having spent the previous two years wandering the streets of the ancient capital Leica-in-hand in an attempt to document the lives of its multitudes , and by the time the student protests began he had already amassed an impressive body of work . |
| 29 | A man who knows more than most about quangos is the chairman of the development corporation . |
| 30 | AS a shipbuilder , Hughie Gollogly knows more than most about the ebb and flow of the economic tide in Whitby . |