Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 2 | The experts who study child abuse — most of whom come from the medical and psychological professions — tend to adopt a rather different approach . |
| 3 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 4 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 5 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 6 | For every person who leaves Paris , two move to the suburbs ; the Ile de France now has a population of some 10 million , most of whom work in the capital . |
| 7 | Also a hoard of 327 small coins was carefully sieved from the ash , most of them dated to the mid fourth century . |
| 8 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 9 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 10 | But there are quite a few contracts which are still temporary , most of them go to the end of June . |
| 11 | Western liberals and the Left once again found their credulity stretched in defence of the one state which most of them saw as the only bulwark against Nazi Germany . |
| 12 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
| 13 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 14 | Not only are there vines as far as the eye can see from its brand-new winemaking centre in Vertus , but the company also owns nearly 310 acres of its own vineyards , most of them sited on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 15 | After the Beatles lost interest in him , the Maharishi made only occasional appearances in the headlines , most of them connected with the large sums of money his organisation was spending . |
| 16 | A recent review by Berk ( 1986 ) identified 38 methods , most of them developed in the USA during the 1970s . |
| 17 | Most of them came from the single European act . |
| 18 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 19 | In 1985 Peruvian fishermen caught around 10,000 dolphins and porpoises , most of them destined for the fish markets of Peru 's capital Lima , making Peru second only to Japan in the consumption of dolphin flesh . |
| 20 | Most of them went into the newsagent 's and the bar to buy the Sunday edition of the Nazione and a tray of cakes wrapped with gold and white paper and curly gold ribbons . |
| 21 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 22 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 23 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 24 | A common denominator both of these critiques and of positivism and natural law theories , is that most of them speak about the law — even if this is seen to have many facets . |
| 25 | Most of them come from the island of Samos or Bodrum in Turkey . |
| 26 | Most of them are opportunists , most of them come from the local area they 'll know the housing estates and whatever happens . |
| 27 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 28 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 29 | In 1936 the National Executive Committee rejected a number of proposals to change the party Constitution , most of them inspired by the Constituency Party Association.25 After the Edinburgh Conference , in November 1936 , a Constituency Party Association conference was held in London at which representatives of local Labour parties supported the demand that they should be free to elect the Constituency representatives on the National Executive without the unions being involved . |
| 30 | Its contents were still very much in doubt when Cottle reached Alfoxden ; but before his visit ended the famous title had been chosen , and the decision made that the volume should begin with ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ and include ‘ sundry shorter poems ’ of Wordsworth 's , most of them written since the beginning of the year . |