Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversial matters , such as the Investment Services Directive , European Company Statute , the Thirteenth Company Law Directive concerning takeover and other general bids , the Tenth Company Law Directive concerning cross-border mergers between public limited companies , and the Company Taxation Directive concerning arrangements for taking losses into account , have been left until last and it is not at all certain whether all or most of these directives will be adopted by the end of 1992 . |
| 2 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 3 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 4 | Sky may do better than most people think , but it will not turn into another Fox , breaking even in its second year . |
| 5 | If foxes have to be killed , then shooting strikes me as being as decent a method as any , and probably far better than most . |
| 6 | Torrijos played the role better than most . |
| 7 | The Official History of the Ryder Cup by Michael Williams is well researched and therefore surprisingly interesting while Ryder Cup ‘ 89 conveys the atmosphere of the event rather better than most instant histories . |
| 8 | They also do better than most in soilless composts . |
| 9 | The Germans do this better than most : Frankfurt airport has a synthetic studded floor which is now widely imitated . |
| 10 | She does it a little better than most , that 's all . |
| 11 | A potato variety which can survive Britain 's increasingly dry weather better than most has lost its status as a priority crop for farmers because the supermarkets have turned against it . |
| 12 | Duty-free shop better than most : Dutch gin ( Jenever ) at £4.10 a litre . |
| 13 | Better than most , the men in the yards knew it . |
| 14 | Ilya Ehrenburg knew Modi better than most ; he said , ‘ Of course he could have painted portraits that might have pleased the critics and buyers … |
| 15 | If there is any range of activities in which those who possess great power clearly can do better than most people it is in co-ordinating the activities of many people . |
| 16 | Whereas many modern formulations claim to do one special thing or another , i.e. obtain finer grain or higher speed or better sharpness , Agfa 's Rodinal simply develops films better than most others . |
| 17 | In this country there is probably no river or wetland which is ‘ natural ’ in the sense that it has never been interfered with by man ; but river systems have two major characteristics which have enabled their wildlife in all its original complexity to survive interference better than most other systems . |
| 18 | This has been the case in libraries , where the Association of Assistant Librarians themselves came forward with policies they wanted to see implemented because they knew better than most how the arrangement of shelving , as well as the provision of good lighting , seating and magnifies influences the amount libraries are used . |
| 19 | Bukharin understood better than most that Stalin 's mania — as it was shown to be — for breakneck industrialisation was to bring many years of misery and suffering to all the Soviet peoples . |
| 20 | The musically gifted have probably fared better than most . |
| 21 | Sure , with 192 instrument voices , 10 drum kits , 28 note polyphony , 16 part multi-timbrality and digital reverb , it lives up to its description better than most of its competitors . |
| 22 | I must admit , I 'm not a great fan of noise gates in general , but Carvin 's system seems to work better than most . |
| 23 | Furniture and carpet stores are doing better than most , as are grocers , chemists , footwear and leather shops . |
| 24 | True , Chelsea know better than most about gravity after the way their annual hopes come crashing down — just like Isaac 's apple , in fact . |
| 25 | He 's got as good a chance as any of the other challengers , and better than most . |
| 26 | But most of the real champions have a physical quality in common : there is no doubt that they see better than most of us . |
| 27 | For its weight , therefore , the strength of timber is as good or better than most of its competitors . |
| 28 | You put over your stuff better than most . ’ |
| 29 | Admiral Hawkins , as the General has just said , is in a position of having to cope with almost impossible circumstances which , as you are in a position to know better than most , involves making almost impossible decisions . |
| 30 | ‘ I told Jim to believe that he competes significantly better than most players . |