Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that most [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immunological characterisation revealed that most malignant cells and tissues predominantly produce urokinase type plasminogen activator rather than tissue type plasminogen activator depending on their origin . |
| 2 | The EPA found that most submerged plants in the bay are what it calls ‘ light-stressed ’ . |
| 3 | Mintel 's research found that most adult consumers belonged to one of the following three groups : |
| 4 | The fruit is the enlargement of Magritte 's known oeuvre by as many as 200 works , never previously illustrated , which Sylvester and his team have recovered from private collections , and a serious attempt to unravel that most taxing issue of the existence of different versions of the same composition and of different images which carry the same title . |
| 5 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |
| 6 | It would be an unjust and simplistic generalisation to claim that most conservation policies and official reactions to soil erosion followed a single set of assumptions . |
| 7 | These , er , workers ’ — his voice took on a faint sneer as he said the word — ‘ these workers suggest that most human behavior is learned , that we are controlled in our actions not by our inheritance but by what happens to us after birth . |
| 8 | Seeking to economise its use , Daedalus reflected that most wooden structures are limited not by the strength of wood , but by its stiffness . |
| 9 | Inflation is far from dead , and surveys suggest that most young people still want to buy a home of their own at some stage . |
| 10 | Our studies show that most European cities see ring roads as a way of keeping traffic out of their centres . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , looked at the other way round these figures show that most older men and women enjoy reasonable if not perfect health . |
| 12 | Surveys of managers at assisted firms indicated that most assisted projects had significant beneficial impacts on output , productivity and profitability and over half led to increases in employment . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that most sensible people in Britain recognise that expenditure on our nuclear deterrent is about the best and safest investment that we can make , especially in view of the alarming situation in Russia and the break-up of the former Soviet Union ? |
| 14 | The evidence demonstrates that most small towns and even some villages provided a range of specialist goods and services . |
| 15 | The resolution noted that most environmental pollution originated in the developed countries , which thus had the main responsibility for fighting it . |
| 16 | Elite theorists argue that most social relations are suffused with the exercise of power , even though many social conflicts and exchanges seem to be constructed on a different basis . |
| 17 | With good reason , Disney believes that most French people do not share these views . |
| 18 | After this an attitude survey found that most new mothers were in favour of screening newborn boys . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 20 | Surviving rules of gilds of laymen suggest that most such associations had a spiritual aspect ; in tenth-century Exeter gildsmen assembled " for the love of God and for our souls ' need , having regard both to the prosperity of our life and also to the days thereafter which we wish to be allotted to us at God 's Judgement " , and gave any member going on pilgrimage overseas five pence from each of his colleagues . |
| 21 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 22 | The University of Reading 's survey comments that most small farmers ‘ could not even subsist on these farms if they did not have outside sources of income . |
| 23 | While these personal productivity applications are appealing to techies , the company admits that most personal users will begin with simple file transfers . |
| 24 | Indeed , the development of the Euro-currency market meant that most large organizations became increasingly aware of the possibility of switching funds between currencies in order to make capital gains ( or avoid capital losses ) and to benefit from interest rate differentials . |
| 25 | The fact remains that most older people are fairly rigid in their sexual views and , more surprisingly perhaps , a good deal less knowledgeable in matters of sex than their younger compatriots . |