Example sentences of "and [vb infin] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I think at the end of the day because we 're w going to have to basically in a sense your job I think even though at the moment you 're saying you know fine I 'm not gon na exclude anything , I think it 's actually going to be sort of , to try and eliminate most of this . |
| 2 | The living topsoil is seldom more than six inches deep ; if one digs or ploughs deeper , one inevitably puts subsoil on the surface and buries the active flora and fauna below the level where they can thrive and do most good . |
| 3 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 4 | Referee David Axcell pointed to the penalty spot and Whitton stepped forward to score and send most of the fans in a 17,000 crowd home happy . |
| 5 | A decline that 's under circumstances when we 're still an island nation , still dependent upon shipping to impor export and import most of our goods . |
| 6 | In the meantime because he lay so close to them Tom was able to hear and see most of what went on . |
| 7 | The idea of progress was crucially important in an age when the west 's growing technological power was allowing it to conquer and colonize most of the world . |
| 8 | Freddie took my few belongings up to the garret where I was to sleep and spend most of my time until the baby was born . |
| 9 | Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons , often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her . |
| 10 | Rubinstein has demonstrated , the rich managed to protect and retain most of their wealth and income despite the more democratic nature of society in the twentieth century and the challenge posed by two Labour governments during the inter-war years . |
| 11 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |
| 12 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |
| 13 | I do try and get most of the things out from behind there it 's this this bookcase I have terrible trouble with . |
| 14 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |