Example sentences of "[prep] most " in BNC.

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1 Mamma d'Agostino made sure that something came from Rico every month , and Sean and Michael looked after most things anyway .
2 The band , currently re-equipping after most of their instruments were stolen in Burnley last month , play and London Finsbury Park Cult In The Park Festival ( headlining the second stage ) .
3 The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices .
4 In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on .
5 In the reverse direction a similar process is required , except that here the Macintosh architecture looks after most of the conversion for you ; Word reads MacWrite files automatically , for example .
6 But the housekeeper looked after most of the administration and discipline for him .
7 Significantly higher concentrations are found after most slow release preparations ( Asacol , Pentasa , and Claversal 500 mg tablets ) than after azo-bound preparations ( Dipentum and Salazopyrin ) .
8 Sometimes his decisions are made on grounds of convenience : after most newspapers in Britain committed contempt of court over the arrest of " Yorkshire Ripper " Peter Sutcliffe , the Attorney decided against prosecuting on the ground that he would have to put dozens of editors in the dock .
9 So it was long , long after most people in Harlow
10 A long , long after most people had televisions here
11 Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week .
12 At the back of the machine , on our level , an ingenious device separates out most of the stones : a circular rubber pad revolves below brushes , which are stiff enough to sweep the potatoes off into their special channel , but not rigid enough to dislodge the stones until later .
13 Add this to steering that is not too heavy when parking and direct and communicative at speed , and a chassis that irons out most road imperfections but still allows great cornering balance , and the Metro is rarely unsuited to a journey , whether motorway or A-road , long or short .
14 Scoop out most of the potato , leaving the skin and a layer of potato , to form a boat shape .
15 Mr Chope said that it was not appropriate to discuss Westminster security , but the agency already contracted out most building work , including work with a high security content for the Defence Ministry .
16 The Communist party had kicked out most reformers after Warsaw Pact tanks put an end to the Prague Spring in 1968 .
17 These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm .
18 ‘ I checked out most of Crevecoeur 's old haunts , ’ he said , consulting his memofile , ‘ and turned up the goods at Alix Micklemas ’ tattoo parlour . ’
19 About 40 towns and cities are investigating similar schemes but funding problems are likely to rule out most of them .
20 After 15 months of tough talks , Moscow agreed to pull out most of its troops by Nov 15 this year .
21 The atmosphere filters out most of this radiation .
22 In particular , a variant form of oxygen known as ozone , which exists mainly in the upper atmosphere of Earth , filters out most of the potentially dangerous W light ( see p. 89 ) .
23 The atmosphere filters out most of the gamma and X-radiation so that the amount reaching ground level from space is virtually zero , and astronomers who seek to measure these short-wave radiations must send their telescopes into space .
24 On Saturday the pupils could enjoy the austere pleasures of going into the small granite town of Elgin , something Richard did not enjoy but decided to do because his injured feet ruled out most alternatives .
25 The way he carried out most of his large soft-ground etching was to make drawings on the spot on very thin paper the actual size the final print was to be .
26 Private companies have carried out most of the development work , usually to meet specific markets .
27 It occurs when dust particles high in the atmosphere filter out most of the longer wavelengths of red light .
28 Humans do this by screening out most of the alternatives with ‘ ends-and-means ’ heuristics .
29 And I was allowed to go out most weekends .
30 The Air Vice Marshal described how US Stealth bombers took out most of the Iraqi radar installations and in addition targeted nuclear and scud missile sites , admitting that Iraq 's defences were extremely good .
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