Example sentences of "most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rising and coloured River Tees below Croft meant a struggle for most during the Thornaby AA February Cup . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | AS a shipbuilder , Hughie Gollogly knows more than most about the ebb and flow of the economic tide in Whitby . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Most of the reported deaths , however , were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations . |
| 8 | The sentences of most of the military prisoners were completed years ago , but nobody is released . |
| 9 | In How Prints Look , first published in 1943 , he wrote ‘ an elementary introduction to the appearances ( the outward and visible signs ) of prints ’ , and cautioned that : ‘ Most of the time spent over it should be given to looking at its pictures . ’ |
| 10 | It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole . |
| 11 | London is obviously where most of the opportunities abound . |
| 12 | Interestingly , though , most of the audition selections are chosen from work of the last twenty years ; most young students will go for contemporary work . |
| 13 | If you have done any class work before attempting the drama school audition , most of the teachers will at some point in their sessions have talked about ‘ relaxation ’ . |
| 14 | Most of the drama schools now include a presentation of auditions for agents and managements at the end of the final term , in addition to the finals productions . |
| 15 | For his part , de Valera , prime minister for most of the period from 1932 to 1959 , pursued isolationist policies , economically , politically , and culturally , seeking at once self-sufficiency , neutrality , the restoration in part of Gaelic culture through the minimal enforcement of the Irish language , and the control of media consumption . |
| 16 | It supported the British state for most of the nineteenth century in Ireland , then supported constitutional politics for home rule ; and when independence came in 1921 , it supported the pro-treaty faction in Southern Ireland and opposed the civil war because that faction was the state . |
| 17 | Finally , while it could be argued that Greeley and Rossi tell us something of catholic versus state schooling in the US , they have nothing to tell us about catholic versus Christian , multi-denominational schools , which is what most of the argument in Ireland is about . |
| 18 | Do not most of us search for excuses most of the time ? |
| 19 | Walked most of the night . |
| 20 | Walked most of the night again . |
| 21 | After 4–7 days most of the sugars have been turned into alcohol and the yeast begins to sink to the bottom of the vessel . |
| 22 | Now open the bitter kit and pour most of the hopped concentrated wort into the 12 pint pan . |
| 23 | Thankfully , most of the more extreme excesses of the theme pub craze — so ably analysed by Christopher Hutt in his classic work of 1973 — have now disappeared . |
| 24 | In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses . |
| 25 | For despite their other shortcomings , most of the major brewers have been able and willing to cross-subsidise many less profitable houses . |
| 26 | As a result of the constant remodelling of premises through the period , most of the Victorian pub interiors which survive are late 19th century in date , and most attempts to create ‘ Victorian ’ interiors concentrate on the grander survivals ; this , combined with the common inability to create a sympathetic design , has led to a stereotype of the Victorian pub which is inaccurate . |
| 27 | Typical of most of the systems that will be at HOTECH are wake-up and message services ; posting of charges for telephone calls to the room account ; facilities to advise housekeeping when bedrooms are free for cleaning ; and display of the guest 's name on the operator console . |
| 28 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 29 | Fortunately , most of the crowd had been drawn to the main attraction of The Great Whirlo in the Variety Tent at that particular point in the afternoon . |
| 30 | FIPRESCI is a world-wide critics ' organisation which includes most of the leading and distinguished writers on film among its members . |