Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] that most [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Pravda reported that most of the ‘ thousands ’ of letters it had received asked the simple question : ‘ When is the war going to end ? ’
2 Miles Kington found that most of the Burma Road ( Great Journeys , BBC-2 ) is even wetter .
3 Similarly , Wright found that most of the victims in his sample had received no injuries .
4 Levi noted that most of the republics had Jewish communities and said that Israel expected the republics to respect the communities ' rights , including the right to free emigration .
5 Station commander Wing Commander Stewart Blackburn confirmed that most of the work , apart from some specialist fitting out of new hangers , would go to local contractors .
6 Tanjug reported that most of the approximately 600,000 Serbs in Croatia had failed to participate in the elections .
7 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 .
8 When I said something of the sort , Dr Kepepwe explained that most of the original staff of the hospital were serving with British troops in Operation Total Tartary , in Murmansk , Usbekistan , the front in the Caucasus , and the new revolutionary area opening up round Lake Baikal .
9 But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas .
10 On February 15th President F.W. de Klerk announced that most of the remaining obstacles to constitutional negotiations with the African National Congress ( ANC ) had been cleared away .
11 Cleo knew that most of the noble families took their evening meal late .
12 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 .
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