Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the ideas formulated by scientists and mediated by the medical profession formed the framework within which all women , including active feminists ( most of whom were middle class ) , had to work . |
| 2 | Most of them are hard man . |
| 3 | Most of them are common sense but you would be surprised how , in our eagerness to succeed , we often forget them . |
| 4 | Most of them were above Ace and Defries , fluttering round the diagonal girder along which Daak was trying to climb . |
| 5 | Most of them were growing food or timber in 1880 , although not all of them were as productive as they were later to become . |
| 6 | Most of us are happy hitting within a minute of an ETA , of course , but the various equations and rules of thumb used by the RAF are familiar to the private pilot . |
| 7 | Well I mean I do n't wan na put in er a great deal of money because most of it 's ploughed back into the business . |
| 8 | The Middleham jewel has been ‘ saved ’ for the nation at a cost of £2.5 million , most of it being public money . |
| 9 | Some of it was instinct with Davidson , of course , but most of it was solid experience , starting , as Davidson had once told him , with his being seduced by the school-dinner lady at the age of thirteen in his native Ayrshire . |
| 10 | Most of it was just bumph , bills and Christmas cards , except for a bulky , strange-looking package which had been delivered by hand . |
| 11 | Yes , I could now see most of it was olive green , with the odd camo suit . |
| 12 | most of it was fresh produce . |
| 13 | By 1800 most of it was white bread , bought from a baker , possible because coal drove the cost of fuel down . |