Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 2 | Coalbrookdale acted like a magnet on artists , most of whom painted romantic images of the iron bridge in its wooded valley setting , and the bridge itself was soon being promoted as a tourist attraction . |
| 3 | The array of tyres and cones failed to daunt the 20 competitors , most of whom managed clear rounds . |
| 4 | The reputation of British singers in the field of early music is maintained by about 20 principal musicians , most of whom have some Oxbridge connection . |
| 5 | Such is the fear of funding ‘ products ’ or of being too ‘ near market ’ , that we are failing to address the needs of 80% of today 's IT professionals — the users of IT , most of whom work outside academia and the IT supply industry . |
| 6 | By 1905 there were over 300 charitable feeding associations in the United Kingdom , most founded before 1900 , most of them providing free meals . |
| 7 | Most of them use small sets of rules about what constitutes an affix which can safely be removed , and any stem " normalization " which may thereafter be needed to achieve conflation ( e.g. , " absorption " — " absorb " " travelling " — " travel " ) . |
| 8 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 9 | But most of them wore Western dress : polyester trousers , anoraks and sneakers . |
| 10 | Most of them wore camouflaged smocks and jump boots . |
| 11 | It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance . |
| 12 | While comments ( see also p 25 ) from the Big Six vary on details , most of them express fundamental doubts about either the ED as a whole or important points in it . |
| 13 | I wondered if I should learn Swedish ( impossible , I 'm told ) and then remembered that most of them speak reasonable English . |
| 14 | Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads . |
| 15 | Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots . |
| 16 | Most of them had similar extensions . |
| 17 | The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort . |
| 18 | Again , there was a high percentage of part-time farmers ( in Bavaria something like 48% ) but most of them had urban employment as opposed to rural off-farm employment , as found in the other countries . |
| 19 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 20 | Fortunately , most of them try one flight and dislike it so much that they avoid flying again . |
| 21 | Mr McCue had seen the ski jump being used and commented : ‘ I saw very few people actually ski from the very top of the ramp most of them start half way down . ’ |
| 22 | Most of them include complete lists of the members of all the institutions and their senior staff , with addresses and telephone numbers . |
| 23 | They 're odd ; they have foibles ; they rob banks or steal cars or kill people , but otherwise most of them have normal lives . ’ |
| 24 | Most of them have six legs , and buzz . |
| 25 | Most common category is that of digital filter design programs and there are several of these and most of them have common features . |
| 26 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 27 | Now all these countries have much cheaper labour force , most of them have warmer climates and with the advantages of low-price labour and also less expensive from the point of view of having to dry out leather and do these various processes that come in the production , the erm the leather tanning trade is being increased in those countries , with the knowledge and indeed the design of the western countries , because tanning is not the most salubrious of , er works . |
| 28 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 29 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the kings of Israel were a pretty disappointing lot , and most of them showed little sign of the presence of the Lord the Spirit in their lives and reigns . |