Example sentences of "most [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from these , and the research described in the present book , there has been relatively little research in this area , most of it resulting in unpublished MA theses ( e.g. Tate 1984 ) or doctoral theses ( e.g. Wright 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Australia has agreed to pay the government of the Pacific island of Nauru a total of A$120 million ( £50 million ) as recompense for the environmental damage wreaked by 90 years of phosphate mining , most of it carried out while Nauru was administered by Australia as a UN Trusteeship . |
| 3 | Most of it lay in Great Britain , in a northern belt running from Lens and Lys in France across Belgium to the Ruhr , and in the Lorraine-Saar-Luxembourg region . |
| 4 | It was assumed that most of it went to the Provisionals and a smaller amount to the Official IRA . |
| 5 | Duncan had tried to explain what he was doing , but most of it went straight over Myeloski 's head . |
| 6 | Almost certainly most of it went to Rye , the chief centre of shipbuilding , where , as well as at Playden , ropemakers were working some years later . |
| 7 | Er they say that 's where most of it went on er they would go into the pub and the riveter would tally up the the sheet for the week and say well okay , that 's , you know , the holder-on gets so much and the rivet boy gets so much , and the riveter got so much , and what have you . |
| 8 | Same of the paint went on the window frame ; a lot of it went on the glass ; and most of it went on the floor . |
| 9 | Brushing my hair set my teeth on edge but I finally got most of it laying down , and at least you could n't see my new bumps from the front . |
| 10 | It was only a short spell of relief , most of it spent down Channel in atrocious summer weather as I remember , but it was enough to whet my appetite for more , and the start of a long love affair with Venturous . |
| 11 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 12 | The subject of obsolescence has generated a considerable amount of literature , most of it based on citation studies — that is , studies showing the number of times that individual books or periodical articles are cited in the lists of references given at the end of a piece of research ( a method , it can be seen , which is distinct from studies of actual library use ) . |
| 13 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 14 | The problem with sub-£10 champagne is that most of it does n't taste very good . |
| 15 | Most of it does ! |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , most of it fits , but just one thing niggles me about Dr Armitage 's story . ’ |
| 17 | Beatle Paul McCartney 's wife , LINDA McCARTNEY , holds 38th slot with £39.2 million , most of it stemming from an inheritance from the Eastman/Kodak fortune . |
| 18 | She wondered how much he had witnessed , then realised he must have seen , and heard , most of it to order Paul Fisher to be carpeted , without suggesting Mr Drewer get her side of it . |
| 19 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 20 | In my experience , gay porn , most of it produced abroad , is increasingly widely available . |
| 21 | Jones lists assets of $338,000 against debts of $1.6 million , most of it owed to the tax man . |
| 22 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 23 | C H SISSON — poet , translator , novelist , critic , polemicist , former Whitehall mandarin and the candidate who should have won Oxford 's Chair of Poetry — has finally unveiled his life 's story , most of it told , with typical unconventionality , backwards . |
| 24 | Special software abounds , most of it costing less than £30 . |
| 25 | This leads to the inevitable question ‘ Where does it all go to ? ’ and the simple answer is that most of it goes to several firms specialising in BOB ( Buyer 's Own Brand : ie , supermarket brands etc . ) |
| 26 | Most of it goes to your employees , some of it goes to the pension fund and a large slice goes to the government in tax and National Insurance . |
| 27 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 28 | The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team . |
| 29 | But in this case most of it had n't been touched since 1934 , and part of it was requisitioned for troops during the war . |
| 30 | Most of it had passed over Vologsky 's head . |