Example sentences of "[v-ing] most [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sometimes means eliminating most of the original actors , and stretching down the hierarchy or even outside to discover a new chief who was not part of the original team . |
| 2 | We know the Germans are contributing most of the money . ’ |
| 3 | Scotswood Road and the Armstrong Vickers factory used to be one of the busiest places in Newcastle , ( it even earned a mention in one of the best known Geordie songs — hence the programme 's title ) with the factory employing most of the residents . |
| 4 | We have shown that TCR -β rearrangement or , more likely , expression of a functionally rearranged TCR -β gene , is not only necessary but also sufficient for driving most of the immature IL-2R-positive DN thymocytes to the DP stage and for expanding the pool of thymocytes . |
| 5 | By now I 'm mostly tired , I was driving most of the night . |
| 6 | Codebreakers based at Bletchley Park hastened Hitler 's defeat by uncovering most of Germany 's military secrets . |
| 7 | But the programme was keeping most of the ‘ striptease ’ that forms the title sequence . |
| 8 | Bar-Belle Aviation are also hoping to establish their own airfield with a 1,000 metre grass runway ‘ somewhere ’ in Oxfordshire , with a view to basing most of their fleet as well as it becoming a centre for warbird and historic aircraft . |
| 9 | Several WACC members are taking part in compiling the handbook , which has a 17-member editorial council representing most of India 's major denominations and institutions . |
| 10 | Several WACC members are taking part in compiling the handbook , which has a 17-member editorial council representing most of India 's major denominations and institutions . |
| 11 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 12 | In March and early April , the closing weeks of the dry season , the forces of Cambodia 's Phnom Penh-based government launched a series of successful offensives using tanks and heavy artillery , reportedly recapturing most of the 3,240 sq km of territory in western Cambodia hitherto held by guerrilla forces of the tripartite coalition government-in-exile . |
| 13 | From Llewellyn-Jones ' ( 1981a , b ) findings , there must be a question as to whether BSL interpreting is actually occurring most of the time . |
| 14 | After trimming most of the meat away , the bones will make marvellous stock or soup . |
| 15 | I know there are those who would prefer anarchy to hold sway , but what they do is destroy everything about climbing most of us hold dear . |
| 16 | A thick sea mist had rolled in , obscuring most of the priory buildings . |
| 17 | Rose Cottage did not have a garage , but it had a parking space formed by sacrificing most of the front garden . |
| 18 | In your mind you will have a picture of your ideal small farm with grass , crops , livestock , vegetables , and fruit meeting most of your needs , without waste , and a marketable surplus to provide a few luxuries . |
| 19 | All succeeded in meeting most of their local and national objectives of moving people into the community . |
| 20 | New customs duties for imports introduced on Sept. 1 had the effect of replacing most of Israel 's non-tariff barriers with higher import tariffs ( which would decrease annually over coming years ) . |
| 21 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 22 | Rather , I settle for a balanced , rounded style of dressing most of the time , more Dougie Heywood than Tommy Nutter . |
| 23 | With jetlag causing most of the tourists to complain of two sleepless nights since landing on the sub-continent , Gooch 's manager and mentor Keith Fletcher was quick to offer an excuse . |
| 24 | Not that it 's impossible — indeed , it 's rather the sort of thing Oliver might do — but I 've somehow stopped believing most of what he says . |
| 25 | JORDAN 'S Prime Minister , Mr Mudar Badran , yesterday announced the freezing of martial law for the first time since 1967 as a prelude for formally revoking most of its provisions and abolishing it . |
| 26 | The Council , in sum , is seeking most of the tools it needs to relaunch itself as an active , respected self-regulator . |
| 27 | The Council , in sum , is seeking most of the tools it needs to relaunch itself as an active , respected self-regulator . |
| 28 | ‘ Cheers ! ’ he said , upending his glass with an air of defiance and swallowing most of its contents in one gulp . |
| 29 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 30 | Probably from living most of his life in cities . |