Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payment of social security benefits to millions of people , most of whom would otherwise have little or no income , injects massive amounts of money into the economy . |
| 2 | Most of them might more accurately be described as tinted pen and ink drawings than watercolours in the traditional sense . |
| 3 | In this large body , very few would have known the pre-Conquest church ; and most of them would probably have been children of the new gentry in the neighbourhood of Canterbury , perhaps with parents of mixed Anglo-Norman origin . |
| 4 | However distinguished grey hair makes a man look , most of them would rather not have it . |
| 5 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
| 6 | Anna was inclined to think that most of them would only notice if he looked disgustingly well , when they could say suspiciously to one another , The Rector looks all right , does n't he , wonder what he 's been up to ? |
| 7 | Most of them would never set eyes on the place and few felt any loyalty towards it . |
| 8 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |
| 9 | The inferences are systematic , they are decodable by different interpreters in the same way , and without most of them the exchange can not be understood ; most of them must therefore be part of what is communicated , in Grice 's strict sense of meant-nn . |
| 10 | Most of them will probably go off and get married . |
| 11 | Now , if you 've got nowhere else , erm , at the bottom end of the door to fit it , that 's fine , but as a matter of a preference , Crime Prevention like to see them fitted a third of the way up the door , that is where our thieves put the boot in , and thieves will work to pressure points , to leverage points they come equipped , or most of them do n't come equipped , because obviously if they 're walking along the street and a police officer sees them , you know , pull them over and start to talk to them , most of them will actually er use the tools from the back garden or or things they find lying around to help themselves in . |
| 12 | Well I mean the most of them will obviously go to the cash and er to the er supermarkets and pick it up . |
| 13 | Whether skilled or unskilled , the vast majority of fathers of brides in the sample were engaged in manual trades ( 110 of the 161 ) , and most of them could safely be assumed to be skilled workers . |
| 14 | Despite the risks this must be a better investment of public money than the massive R and D devoted to defence , most of which will never give an economic return , and which can not — or certainly should not — be exported , for strategic reasons — not to mention moral ones . |
| 15 | Along the way they intend to write a book of their experiences , most of which will undoubtedly be totally unprintable . |
| 16 | Increased usage of renewable energy sources , most of which will mainly convert energy into electricity , will necessitate better methods of storage of electrical energy than at present . |
| 17 | Most of us would strongly reject any such idea — yet the image of Eve has exercised a powerful influence on the way women have traditionally been regarded . |
| 18 | This is such a horrifying thought that most of us would rather not think about it . |
| 19 | Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends . |
| 20 | Most of us would probably start off growing pelargoniums in a soilless compost but Hazel reports that they 're actually much easier to grow well in a loam-based compost . |
| 21 | But most of us would probably eschew the ostentatious and eccentric , and settle for an honest and straightforward run of bindings that have a plain tale to tell of their place and time . |
| 22 | Most of us would probably panic , think catastrophic thoughts , breathe rapidly , run away to a safe place , call out the doctor , and make a will . |
| 23 | But most of us would probably say that the Edwardian Era ended with the bullets that Gavrilo Princip fired into the body of Arch-duke Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914 . |
| 24 | But given the choice and understanding , most of us would probably still rather face up to distress . |
| 25 | Whatever its form , most of us would never court it . |
| 26 | Outmoded this view might be , but most of us would still prefer to try on new clothes , wax hair off our legs , perform our ablutions or put on make-up in private . |
| 27 | The apple as symbol is all around us but most of us would still think of it first as a tasty snack . |
| 28 | Even Bleuler himself considered what most of us would now recognise as a truism : that ‘ autism ’ is a feature of normal mental life , accounting for the emergence , or in some cases deliberate exploration , of ideas that arise without logic from unconscious layers of the mind . |
| 29 | Most of us must reluctantly concede and admiration for the way the Japanese do things , but even they make some remarkable cock-ups , which can serve to cheer and instruct us when we consider our own inadequacies . |
| 30 | But then most of us could probably bluff our way into a second division club with a bit of nous . |