Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that most [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Inflation is far from dead , and surveys suggest that most young people still want to buy a home of their own at some stage . |
| 3 | Our studies show that most European cities see ring roads as a way of keeping traffic out of their centres . ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , looked at the other way round these figures show that most older men and women enjoy reasonable if not perfect health . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |