Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pain was experienced by 67 per cent of all patients , most of whom experienced more at night , suggesting that a number of apparently ‘ venous ’ ulcers may have a concurrent ischaemic component . |
| 2 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 3 | We already do that for widows , most of whom get enough in benefits — paid regardless of their incomes — to lift them well above supplementary benefit levels . |
| 4 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 5 | The decline in public sector housebuilding and the rise in council house rents , together with the transfer of many council houses to the private sector , has resulted in an increase in the number of homeless people , most of whom come from groups who are unable to afford to become owner-occupiers . |
| 6 | John o' Groats is commonly but wrongly regarded as the most northerly tip of the country and because of this popular misconception attracts many visitors , most of whom come for no better reason than to be able to say they have been there and , having satisfied this ambition , turn round and return south . |
| 7 | The experts who study child abuse — most of whom come from the medical and psychological professions — tend to adopt a rather different approach . |
| 8 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 9 | With a number of recent recordings of these works by various players , most of whom claim in one way or another the composer 's approval of their performance , it is certainly worth hearing how Messiaen himself approached his organ music . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there are now over 400 officially registered grape growers in England and Wales , most of whom make wine , and most in the South of England . |
| 11 | Coalbrookdale acted like a magnet on artists , most of whom painted romantic images of the iron bridge in its wooded valley setting , and the bridge itself was soon being promoted as a tourist attraction . |
| 12 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 13 | Young moves round the corner to Toto 's in Walton Street , checking the cars , hoping the drivers — most of whom know him — will give him a whisper of what 's going on . |
| 14 | A Shadow Cabinet containing senior figures like Lord Carrington , Whitelaw , Prior , Maudling , and Pym — most of whom had already achieved office under Mr Heath , were associated with his policies , and owed little to her — was hardly right-wing . |
| 15 | They joined the rest of their colleagues — most of whom had already been suspended — in the rest room of Europe 's largest ambulance station , where they were watching a video of A Bridge Too Far . |
| 16 | The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines . |
| 17 | Indeed , when Mosley addressed a meeting of 1,500 people at Leeds Town Hall in May 1934 it was estimated that only about 400 fascists were present , ‘ most of whom had come to Leeds by bus . ’ |
| 18 | When Mosley addressed a meeting of 1,500 people at Leeds Town Hall in May 1934 it was estimated that about 400 fascists were present ‘ most of whom had come to Leeds by bus . ’ |
| 19 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 20 | This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content . |
| 21 | This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall . |
| 22 | Crudely put , authority and leadership began to move from traditional leaders , be they the old pro Jordanian élite or the post-1976 pro-PLO mayors ( most of whom had been eliminated by the authorities ) , into new but less visible hands . |
| 23 | By this time the original confrontation between marchers and police had given way to a general battle between the police and young residents of the Bogside , most of whom had taken no part in the march . |
| 24 | The total number of civilian casualties was seventy-seven , most of whom had suffered bruises or lacerations to the head . |
| 25 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |
| 26 | The lands that they abandoned were gradually occupied by Albanians , most of whom had been converted to Islam . |
| 27 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 28 | They were run by the women of a bombed city , most of whom had already lived through one war . |
| 29 | The-building , white with red shutters , faced over the vineyards , which were tended by the residents of the home , most of whom had been wounded . |
| 30 | There were 229 new referrals from general practice , most of whom had previously received one or more courses of antibiotic treatment ; 155 existing patients who showed little or no clinical improvement after at least three months ' antibiotic treatment ; and 84 patients sampled for other reasons ( mainly anxiety and screening after treatment with isotretinoin ) . |