Example sentences of "[verb] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fleets of the Witch King seized the Blighted Isle and retook most of the Shadowlands . |
| 2 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 3 | Because Granby House was a listed building , the contractor eventually became exempt from this tax , but as he could not reclaim any VAT he had already paid to suppliers , he had to pass most of it on to the developer . |
| 4 | Such joints are said to pass most of the tests in the specifications for wood adhesives . |
| 5 | Mr Serrano 's actions caught most people by surprise . |
| 6 | What caught most people 's attention were radical new forged karabiner designs from DMM and HB . |
| 7 | The Hanoverian succession per se does not appear to have been what triggered most of the unrest . |
| 8 | She was venerated by women in a feast named Matronalia , and the month of June — once called Junonius — was considered most auspicious for weddings . |
| 9 | You will already have considered most of the factors under ‘ operational implications ’ , but do n't forget that you need to allow for the tea , coffee and biscuits that the second conference will be consuming in substantial quantities . |
| 10 | Water was considered most important and given a weighting of 10 . |
| 11 | 6.1 We have now considered most of the major adjectival positions of English , with only the extraclausal to follow in Chapter 9 . |
| 12 | Thus for polyethylene the trans position is considered most stable and the gauche positions are the flexed ones with ΔΕ the energy difference between the ground and flexed states . |
| 13 | ( The reasons why ( i ) was considered most appropriate need not be repeated here . ) |
| 14 | The final punch line from WordPerfect was that enhancements in the new release 5.2 of WordPerfect for Windows invalidated most of Microsoft 's arguments anyway . |
| 15 | This Sir William 's uncle was a genial and uncomplicated individual of middle years , lacking his late brother 's energy and drive but considerably easier to deal with than his nephew , indeed seeming to find most of life much to his taste . |
| 16 | None of them had direct experience of retail tariff-making and they were to find most of their initiatives on tariffs blocked by the Area Board chairmen . |
| 17 | Again it was no surprise to find most temporary workers in what could best be described as lower level or less skilled occupations , both in industry and services [ see Table 2.2 ] . |
| 18 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 19 | People who ooze experience , self-confidence and charisma appear to find most aspects of teaching easy ; many of the best drama teachers I 've seen working , however , are quiet and self-effacing , and I 've seen relatively inexperienced young students running very successful whole group drama sessions . |
| 20 | Residents in Middleton St George were stunned to find most of the new £3,000 roof lying in a field after a night of strong winds last month . |
| 21 | The fact is that the rich retained most of their income and wealth , although there was , quite clearly , some transference of wealth and income from the very rich to the middling rich sections , as indicated in Table 6.3 . |
| 22 | The most notable maverick was Churchill , who retained most of his old free trade views , but was implacably opposed to progress in India . |
| 23 | It was also the national cause that prompted Law to accept a junior position ; he took the Colonial Office himself , a backwater in wartime , and Liberals retained most of the major posts . |
| 24 | This is supported by the few studies specifically of rural areas ; Moseley and Townroe ( 1973 ) found that immigrant firms in East Anglia retained most of their original linkages outside the region , and Hodge and Whitby ( 1979 ) , in a study of the eastern Scottish Borders , found that few in-migrant firms had important local linkages . |
| 25 | The British Government retained most of the cash , insisting it had taken Rechar allocations into account when determining local authority and development agency budgets . |
| 26 | Sir Christopher designed most of the buildings himself , but left the design of ‘ The Castle , to the terrifically fashionable architect John Carr of York , who had been taken up by the Yorkshire gentry after his triumph with the design for the grandstand on the racecourse at Knavesmire . |
| 27 | Rather , it seems that , in its usage at least , it can best be seen as having been incorporated into the neoclassical compromise which has dominated most Western criminal justice systems . |
| 28 | In other words , rehabilitation has been added as another complication to the already compromised neoclassical position which , as we have already seen , has dominated most Western systems since the early part of the last century : the dominant operational framework is still the retributive tariff . |
| 29 | The belief in the inevitability of progress , which had dominated most Labour thinking , disappeared under the impact of Fascism . |
| 30 | I 'm not starting I 'm just saying that 's when they smell most when you get near fire . |