Example sentences of "[vb past] most [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 2 | Elections held in the overwhelmingly ethnic-Albanian Serbian province of Kosovo on May 24 , declared illegal by the Serbian authorities , were won by the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo ( DSK ) , which secured most of the seats in the 130-member Assembly . |
| 3 | That 's one of the findings of a new law and order survey which comes a week after Home Secretary Michael Howard rejected most of the proposals of the Sheehy inquiry into pay and conditions . |
| 4 | He regularly attended the fortnightly lunches , and sometimes all-day meetings , of the Chandos Group and joined most of the conferences of the Moot . |
| 5 | We enclosed most of the adults on deck within a rylock wire fence previously erected round Viking 's gunwale . |
| 6 | However , they then defied most of the laws of position and possession to come back from 15–9 down , draw level and force the match into extra time . |
| 7 | The regional military commander blamed most of the deaths on the rebels . |
| 8 | Although Crosse went to sea as early as 1569 , he spent most of the years to 1584 in soldiering , at times in Ireland and in Scotland , where he served with the Regency forces and was wounded at the siege of Edinburgh Castle in 1573 . |
| 9 | Real property included most of the interests in land recognized by the law , and other rights , such as easements and profits ( see p. 82 ) , annexed to the land . |
| 10 | She reached out for her glass and swallowed most of the contents at a gulp . |
| 11 | This lead to the proposition that it was the work of Clodius Albinus , in putting the Province in a state of defence , while he took most of the troops to Gaul in his unsuccessful bid for the purple , and this theory has yet to be seriously challenged . |
| 12 | A member of the Kennel Club , she kept most of the animals in small cages in two bedrooms . |
| 13 | The verbatim reports reached most of the newspapers in places such as Aberdeen at one o " clock in the morning of the 30th . " |
| 14 | Austin and Maleeva contested most of the points from the baseline , exchanging angles and deeply-hit ground-strokes during the entire match , but the American 's mobility and concentration on the crucial points clinched victory . |
| 15 | His performance , Lewis said , answered most of the questions about him . |
| 16 | During their second attempt , Saunders and Sustad completed most of the difficulties on a route parallel to the spur . |
| 17 | In September 1944 a third White Paper , Social Insurance , accepted most of the proposals of the Beveridge report , especially that of comprehensive coverage for all persons and types of risk , and formed the basis of Labour 's Insurance Act of 1946 . |
| 18 | The government of classical Sparta had most of the disadvantages of monarchy , oligarchy and democracy . |
| 19 | Columbia 's brilliant young talent scout John Hammond recorded her with Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson , and it was with Wilson , a dapper , politely swinging pianist , that she made most of the records to be found in Affinity 's collection . |
| 20 | The front-page story lacked most of the details with which Tracey had supplied her , and amounted to little more than a rewritten version of the PA copy she had seen . |
| 21 | After the game I met most of the players including Tony Dorigo 's mother who works in Digital ( Birmingham office ) . |
| 22 | Aunt Bridget entertained most of the womenfolk of the village to another sit-down feast , and Polruan challenged Polperro to a hurling match " to the country " , the result of which was a draw . |
| 23 | In many parts of the country there was little choice for drinkers as the big brewers owned most of the pubs as a result of the takeover and closure of scores of independent brewers . |
| 24 | In 1560 it was the home of Michael Benson , wool clothier , one of three brothers , who owned most of the freeholds between Rydal and Clappersgate . |
| 25 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 26 | Within England too there was a heavy concentration : the party held most of the seats in the Home Counties , Wessex , the West and the West Midlands ; just over half in London , the East and the North-west ; well under half in the East Midlands and North . |
| 27 | Inside the walls , in a similarly enlightened spirit , the conquerors destroyed most of the courtyards of the palace , leaving — and that grudgingly — little in the inner enclosure except the Pearl Mosque and a single string of pavilions spaced out also on the Jumna battlements . |