Example sentences of "[verb] that most [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observations suggest that most of the smoke particles were in the form of soot ( elemental carbon ) particles with diameters of around 0.1 um . |
| 2 | In fact , it is expected that most of the growth in work will come , not from big firms , still less from manufacturing , but from new small firms . |
| 3 | He said that to " accuse to the government of fostering violence [ was ] an insult " and maintained that most of the violence was the result of ethnic and political conflict between ANC supporters and those of the mainly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 4 | Some authorities , notably Gilbert , maintained that most of the material was supplied by longshore drift and that the waves merely acted on this material : others , especially de Beaumont , considered that the material contained in the bar was eroded from the sea bed in front of the bar , as is shown in Fig. 8.18 . |
| 5 | Penrose also claimed that most of the money needed for Blake 's escape had not ( as Bourke had claimed ) come from Blake 's mother . |
| 6 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 7 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 8 | CREB and ATF1 appear to be present at similar levels in immunoprecipitates obtained with the CREB antibody ( lane 2 ) suggesting that most of the CREB is in the form of a heterodimer with ATF1 . |
| 9 | Again , I am amazed that I accomplished the job so quickly seeing that most of the work was done at weekends . |
| 10 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it must be recognized that most of the killing of rightists in the Republican zone was spontaneous and that the government sought , successfully in the long run , to bring it to an end . |
| 12 | The changes mean that most of the care provided will be given by independently owned nursing and residential care homes . |
| 13 | Alexia Lindsay says that most of the ephemera money just came from guide books and maps ; illustrated theatre and concert programmes ; and leaflets , all ephemeral things , apparently of no intrinsic value , but ‘ printed collectibles ’ as they are now called – and spelt ! |
| 14 | The results also show that most of the effect on the perceived depth can be attributed to the presence of the vertical perspective cues although the small effect of horizontal perspective cues was present in the estimates of eight out of ten observers and was statistically significant . |
| 15 | There is no contact-tracing as such , but , because it is felt that most of the problem is due to prostitutes ( an unlikely truth in any European country ) , the examining doctor can fill in a form which is then passed on to the police who will undertake a search . |
| 16 | I 've said that most of the time we do n't know what our own beliefs are , because we do n't believe we have them . |
| 17 | It can and should be argued that most of the performance measures so far developed are , however , measures of research output rather than of administrative efficiency . |
| 18 | In other words , we can assume that most of the speech analysed by Beattie was actually being planned as the discussions proceeded . |
| 19 | Practically unique letter specification was obtained from only the downstrokes of the writing , and there is other evidence to suggest that most of the information in cursive writing is in the downward portions of the writing . |
| 20 | With prize money declining , he laments that most of the time jump jockeys risk their necks for £150 . |
| 21 | Again referring to your programme you 'll see that most of the seminar will be taken by Face the Media . |
| 22 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 23 | Station commander Wing Commander Stewart Blackburn confirmed that most of the work , apart from some specialist fitting out of new hangers , would go to local contractors . |
| 24 | ‘ We should be honest , and accept that most of the money in the sport comes either from TV directly , or as a result of television interest , which is mostly in track and field . |
| 25 | ( They add that most of the improvement in speed is due to better programming rather than advances in chip technology ) . |
| 26 | It is understood that most of the Sun 's employees , including vice presidents , have come round to the idea of embracing Motif in some shape or form , but there remains one unswerving voice . |
| 27 | I suppose I look very confident ; I know that most of the time , that 's how I want to look . |
| 28 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ It was a struggle at first , because when we took over , we discovered that most of the team had left , so we had to find players quickly . |
| 30 | It can be difficult finding the leg position so remember that most of the gull 's weight is forward ; so place them almost under and in line with the head . |