Example sentences of "most [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was inevitable , she supposed , when America was seen by most through a haze created by its films — the greatest publicity stunt ever .
2 A rising and coloured River Tees below Croft meant a struggle for most during the Thornaby AA February Cup .
3 Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard .
4 She 's beautiful and cute and brighter than most for a five-year-old . ’
5 Whom do I remember talking to most as a child ?
6 The American executive branch of the state is overwhelmingly staffed by the upper class ; Congress serves at most as a place in which dissident members of the upper class can air grievances .
7 And if you 're feeling peckish , well what do you enjoy most as a bit of a takeaway treat ?
8 Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA .
9 This was regarded by most as a just reward for helping to raise over £50 million for the cause , but the more sinister downside was that a few less scrupulous characters realised that supporting charities could boost flagging careers and chart positions .
10 It is in the USA that residential preference has been invoked most as an explanation for decentralization ( Berry 1976 ) , perhaps partly as a return to old ideas of the frontier and the rural idyll , as Champion ( 1987 ) suggests .
11 Rather , I have wanted to recover the history of each in relation to the other , finding in the process that Gide understood more than most about desire for the different , Fanon more than most about the ambivalence of difference itself .
12 Hue and Cry are the most interesting of the new pop sophisticates , not so much because of the music , but because singer and lyricist Patrick Kane is an intellectual firebrand who 's more sussed than most about the contradictions and complexities of trying to infiltrate intelligence into the world of teenpop .
13 AS a shipbuilder , Hughie Gollogly knows more than most about the ebb and flow of the economic tide in Whitby .
14 Of the vast number of Ayrshire people who have emigrated to Canada , the man who was most successful financially was Robert Dunsmuir ( 1825–89 ) who went from Hurlford to Vancouver Island and amassed a fortune from coal mining and other businesses ( See Chapter 31 ) but the man who did most towards the advancement of the new country was John Galt ( See Chapter 9 ) .
15 When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig .
16 Last Tuesday , when the start of this match coincided with the end of a major international event ( won by Garry Kasparov ) in The Netherlands , one national paper devoted most of a page to chess coverage .
17 Hedge your bets with a foreign currency fund : Martin Baker reports on the best ways for investors to make the most of a falling pound
18 Most of a Stage 2 company 's strategy and efforts remain concentrated on the domestic scene .
19 Making the most of a buyer 's market , I asked dealers for their advice .
20 Another newish rule forces most of a card 's receivables to be held by the issuing company , not its parent .
21 Anticipate the hose-pipe bans and make the most of a sunny border , says Nigel Colborn , by filling it with the kind of plants that thrive on heat and dust
22 In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens .
23 Making the most of a walk-on role at the start of the campaign , Margaret Thatcher made many Tory candidates realise how much they missed her strong presence on the political stage .
24 IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations .
25 Make the most of a holiday to Australia , Switzerland or the Italian lakes by taking a twin centre holiday — see twice as much and enjoy the contrast between totally different resorts .
26 Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman .
27 Allerton Bywater is hardly on the rock map and the locals made the most of a rate visit to their town , greeting every song with enthusiastic clapping .
28 They lived just over an hour away from the venue but decided to stay to make the most of a rare luxury .
29 In certain cases , the Government will guarantee most of a loan , which makes it possible for us to lend in circumstances where we would ordinarily not do so .
30 Notwithstanding the spread size , the critical factor for any borrower is fluctuations in LIBOR which determines most of a loan 's interest cost .
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