Example sentences of "which most [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the community charge which most people have to pay in the area where they live . |
| 2 | In five years a machine is counted as nothing in the balance sheet , but people count and age makes them more experienced , gives them better judgement — if they 're capable of learning , which most people are . |
| 3 | He defended the 14 and 21 figures , which most people stayed under . |
| 4 | After 1980 the bureau — which most people believe does as good a job as can be expected — had 52 suits filed against it . |
| 5 | Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake . |
| 6 | Does it matter if a person derives some kind of sexual satisfaction from an act which most people or ‘ right-minded persons ’ would not regard as indecent ? |
| 7 | Examples of which most people have heard are press-ups , stomach curls , and leg lifts . |
| 8 | The horizons within which most people 's lives were confined became narrower ; the far-flung contacts which had linked distant provinces became attenuated , local clerical and military élites came to form cohesive , small-scale groupings with local or regional interests and loyalties , sometimes intense local pride . |
| 9 | In Elling , sight was the sense upon which most people traditionally depended and hearing was somewhat neglected . |
| 10 | Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live . |
| 11 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 12 | But then , of course , there is one step beyond that which most people would find an even greater challenge : to widen the circle so that we see ourselves not only as one part of one human family , but of the family of all life on Earth . |
| 13 | That is something which most people concerned about conservation regard as laudable ; it is a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 14 | B. Railway building in Devon and Cornwall was expensive because the main rivers and valleys lay across the east-west route along which most people wanted to travel . |
| 15 | I only went once to visit the Greens and then I was collecting money for the Missionary Fund to which most people contributed a copper or two , with young Mrs Thwaites from the neighbouring farm to us , High Birk Hatt . |
| 16 | The natural repugnance which most people feel when homosexuality and lesbianism is mentioned can result in a harshness of attitude and thinking , which is , at least , unhelpful and certainly as unChristian as the perverse practices which are condemned . |
| 17 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 18 | For those who are interested in taking up more formal exercise , the best types are aerobic exercises such as swimming , walking and stationary cycling , which most people can perform , regardless of their fitness level . |
| 19 | The Soviet Union is not normally a country to which most people would look to learn lessons about democracy — except negative ones . |
| 20 | America in the 1950s was accurately described by a leading economists as " the affluent society " in which most people — though not all — were better off than ever before . |
| 21 | If your organisation is a " high tech " company and works in areas such as microbiology or electronics it will be useful to have a trained scientist who can translate what the company is doing into terms which most people can understand . |
| 22 | Their work involves tasks which most people find distasteful or frightening — from emptying bed pans , giving enemas , changing dressings on sometimes horrific wounds , to laying out and washing the dead . |
| 23 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 24 | The glee — and clear conscience — with which most people here avoid taxes if they can , is to do with their feeling of powerlessness in relation to government , and that is what fosters selfish competition . |
| 25 | Blackpool has its quieter side too , away from the bright lights , which most people do n't usually get to see . |
| 26 | ENTERTAINING — whether a formal party or dinner for a few friends — is something which most people enjoy . |
| 27 | Table 7.2 gives an example which most people would find relatively straightforward . |
| 28 | Erm , income support , housing benefit , family credits , maternity expenses , cold weather payment , there 's a whole host of means tested benefits which most people here will probably believe are reasonable to be means tested . |
| 29 | They 're the small items which most people do n't want to buy . |
| 30 | After a fortnight in which most people wondered if he would survive to lead the team home next weekend after defeats against Norway and the USA , the England manager should enjoy his summer holiday . |