Example sentences of "[conj] most [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | District councils at present will rarely be able to afford to replace such houses , and , if all or most of the houses in a small village are sold , then the council 's ability to meet housing need locally is effectively negated . |
| 2 | There is also a dual innervation , with a " fast " axon supplying all or most of the fibres in a muscle while a " slow " axon innervates a proportion of them . |
| 3 | Cos that way all the or most of the cuttings at least , go into the box would n't they ? |
| 4 | ‘ Typically , when lending money to a company , a bank will take as security a charge over all or most of the assets of the company , present and future , the charge being a fixed charge on land and certain other assets , and a floating charge over the remaining assets . |
| 5 | It was obvious that crofting alone could not support modern standards of living , so most of the families in our village supplemented their incomes by other means . |
| 6 | Borland wants the rest of us to stick with Paradox and like it ( and we do ) , so most of the improvements in version 1.5 are for the pros . |
| 7 | With the help of this resolution , Albanian support for the partisan movement in Kosovo began to increase , although most of the partisans in that area continued to be Serbs and Montenegrins . |
| 8 | Although most of the reports on the subject had been cut out , probably for the colour pictures of Imam Khomeini , we gathered that the EC countries had suspended relations with Iran and that the whole situation had grown completely out of hand . |
| 9 | Although most of the activities of the Young Conservatives may be ostensibly apolitical , nevertheless a tacit deal has been struck , which is of great political value to the main Party . |
| 10 | The press release stated that most of the elements of a market-based economic system were in place in Laos . |
| 11 | The IMF in April 1991 approved a loan of SDR8,790,000 under a 1989 structural adjustment facility agreement ; commenting on the reform programme , the IMF stated that most of the elements of a market-based economic system were in place in Laos . |
| 12 | The fact that most of the players in the Olympic match were from England seems to have borne this out , and our Blundellian correspondent sadly reflects : ‘ A cricketer in France is a stranger in a strange land looked upon with mingled awe and contempt by the average Frenchman . ’ |
| 13 | However , it was not until the 1960s that most of the gaslamps in Prague were converted to electricity . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 15 | It is also the case that most of the studies of this type have been concerned with the effects on the UK of membership . |
| 16 | Put it this way , M' lud : my client thinks that most of the values of the society in which he lives stink , and he hopes with this book to promote fornication , masturbation , adultery , the stoning of priests and , since we 've temporarily got your attention , M' lud , the suspension of corrupt judges by their earlobes . |
| 17 | Only recently vice-president Quayle remarked that most of the refugees in Hong Kong are political — which , as the Secretary of State will be aware , led to a halving of applications for voluntary repatriation . |
| 18 | Fonda , Hopper and Nicholson all knew what they meant and they knew that most of the youngsters in the audience would know what they meant . |
| 19 | And when El-Jorr sent the bill to them , they , too , refused to pay , claiming that most of the charges on it were unauthorized . |
| 20 | , I take the view that the A sixty four north eastern sector has higher landscape value that most of the others in fact all of the others . |
| 21 | Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today . |
| 22 | One of the first problems faced by the Republic was that most of the colonies outside New England were loyal to the Stuart monarchs , and so in the early 1650s considerable effort had to be put into making them accept the new government . |
| 23 | It was noted that most of the ministers from Chatichai 's own Chart Thai party retained their posts in the August reshuffle . |
| 24 | But directors of small companies who can have their own special pension arrangements will find that most of the benefits of such schemes have been removed . |
| 25 | The concomitant reduction in intestinal blood loss after metronidazole treatment suggests that most of the complications of the inflammation ( blood and protein loss , ileal dysfunction ) are a consequence of neutrophil activation . |
| 26 | The observation that most of the patients with chronic idiopathic constipation , like the population in our study , are women , has suggested the possible role of a disturbed hormonal environment in the pathogenesis but these findings have not been substantiated . |
| 27 | Now that she was looking closely , she realised that most of the rooms in the house had two doors . |
| 28 | The tragedy is that most of the transmissions from Astra are in the old-fashioned PAL TV system , with analogue sound . |
| 29 | It will be seen that most of the numbers within individual years are small , and that there is no apparent pattern in the scatter of data . |
| 30 | A reasonable assumption to make on the basis of the instructions given to registrars before 1986 , therefore , is that most of the deaths of children classified as unoccupied will have been registered by economically inactive lone mothers . |