Example sentences of "[subord] most [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that crofting alone could not support modern standards of living , so most of the families in our village supplemented their incomes by other means . |
| 2 | Borland wants the rest of us to stick with Paradox and like it ( and we do ) , so most of the improvements in version 1.5 are for the pros . |
| 3 | With the help of this resolution , Albanian support for the partisan movement in Kosovo began to increase , although most of the partisans in that area continued to be Serbs and Montenegrins . |
| 4 | Although most of the reports on the subject had been cut out , probably for the colour pictures of Imam Khomeini , we gathered that the EC countries had suspended relations with Iran and that the whole situation had grown completely out of hand . |
| 5 | Although most of the activities of the Young Conservatives may be ostensibly apolitical , nevertheless a tacit deal has been struck , which is of great political value to the main Party . |
| 6 | Ivan and Rosina Solowka are noticeable for two reasons — they are older than most of the others at the concert and they have the broadest smiles in the hall . |
| 7 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 8 | He was no more illegal than most of the fixers in this business . |
| 9 | They 're more frightened of Nicholson than most of the cons in here . ’ |
| 10 | He was a head taller than most of the men round the table , and only Burun and Jenjin were anything like as broad . |
| 11 | ‘ You are more fortunate than most of the survivors of the City of the Horizon , ’ said Huy . |
| 12 | ln Halifax , as we have seen , the Crossley family provided most of the funds for Square Congregational Chapel . |
| 13 | And without deviating from truth or accuracy , you are telling it the way — and it is possible to do it , without deviating from truth and accuracy — because most of the trappings of the crap are ones that we impose upon ourselves . |
| 14 | It was because most of the inhabitants of the island were close kin of one another . |
| 15 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 16 | Also , farmers are going to be , because most of the assets on a farm are fixed assets , right , farmers are going to be very reluctant , alright , to cease production just because prices are low for a couple of years . |
| 17 | Integration — meaning equal access to public facilities , political participation and equal citizen rights — was a coherent objective for blacks because most of the denials of equality were sustained by segregation . |
| 18 | While most of the indices on which index futures are traded are arithmetic indices ( for example , S&P500 , NYSE and FT-SE 100 ) , from 1982 to 1988 futures on a geometric index , the VLCI , were traded on the Kansas City Board of Trade . |
| 19 | While most of the strands from which the new synthesis would be woven are already visible before the war , they could only be patterned into a new web within the altered conditions of the university in society , and in the " national life " of the post-war era . |
| 20 | While most of the events of the afternoon have remained firmly in my memory , I had totally forgotten this piece of mischief . |
| 21 | Much of this writing , however , remained essentially the same as in earlier generations — inevitably so , since most of the characteristics of a successful diplomat have not changed over centuries . |
| 22 | Rather than strain the reader 's credulity by indulging in equivalent flights of genealogical fantasy , I shall start with our Victorian predecessors , since most of the currents of modern social anthropology ( as of sociology ) can be traced directly back to them . |
| 23 | Though most of the negotiations of 1558 – 59 which culminated in the peace of Cateau-Cambrésis were still conducted in Latin it is clear that French was also extensively used . |
| 24 | It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates . |
| 25 | This would be an inappropriate measure for most purposes as most of the effects of a 10 per cent inflation rate ( discussed later in this chapter ) would still apply . |
| 26 | This succeeded in bringing a great number of men from the surrounding parishes , as well as most of the inhabitants of East and West Looe . |
| 27 | I 've also recently purchased an effects processor ( BOSS SE50 ) and as most of the patches for the guitar were boring , I started experimenting with some of my own . |
| 28 | As most of the readers of my review of The Handbook of Human Intelligence ( Review , 10 March . |