Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great British public , most of whom would have been hard pressed to name three members of the Cabinet of this or any administration , were pre-occupied with chasing the sun in one of the rainiest summers in recent years and took the loss of a junior minister with equanimity . |
| 2 | They could be constructed by random surveys of a general practitioner 's practice population ( culturally valid ) , most of whom would have had personal experience of common conditions . |
| 3 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 6 | If they chose Ireland , as I believe most of them would , then the Ascendancy could once more be drawn to the heart of Irish life and be given a high-minded function . |
| 7 | Most of them would be unlikely to sponsor a wholesale reconstruction of the educational system and were content to work strenuously within the generous limits of the new Act of 1944 . |
| 8 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 9 | Most of them would never set eyes on the place and few felt any loyalty towards it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 12 | However distinguished grey hair makes a man look , most of them would rather not have it . |
| 13 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 14 | Most of them would go for four or five months before any change of clothing reached them , not perhaps such a hardship as , without a change of clothes , Bernard Callinan found his irritating prickly-heat rash disappeared . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 20 | Whilst working on the drama series A Little Princess with a dozen twelve-to fourteen-year-old girls , I noted that although they were all sweet kids most of them would n't be seen dead without their eyeliner . |
| 21 | Across the broad , still water of the moat stood at least a dozen mounted soldiers , more than enough to overcome the serfs , since most of them would have been at work in the fields . |
| 22 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 23 | Oh yeah we we if if it 's if you 're on a thirty percent and mo which most of them would be if you 're on a thirty percent commission assignment then the other five percent just goes in the pot . |
| 24 | The second group , that most of them would of been since the report and each of them . |
| 25 | Did she say most of them would come down ? |
| 26 | Most of them would cos they are going like far |
| 27 | But most of them would have a neck that was quite high ; modesty was getting to be a really important factor , so we 're covered from head to toe . |
| 28 | If it was a question that this vehicle was in that state when the sold it , then I would think that most of them would put that right themselves . |
| 29 | To this end all records of the past were zealously preserved and older , more primitive legal traditions extensively reworked and edited in the light of developing concepts and attitudes — most of which would seem to have been the direct result of the community 's change in circumstances and new needs for order and social cohesion . |
| 30 | By comparison , batching and sorting the enquiries would lead to 126 head movements , most of which would be an absolute minimum of 10 ms and none of which would be much longer than 15 ms . |