Example sentences of "most [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1905 there were over 300 charitable feeding associations in the United Kingdom , most founded before 1900 , most of them providing free meals . |
| 2 | 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 " ) . |
| 3 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 4 | But most of them wore Western dress : polyester trousers , anoraks and sneakers . |
| 5 | Most of them wore camouflaged smocks and jump boots . |
| 6 | It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wondered if I should learn Swedish ( impossible , I 'm told ) and then remembered that most of them speak reasonable English . |
| 9 | Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads . |
| 10 | Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots . |
| 11 | Most of them had similar extensions . |
| 12 | The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 15 | Fortunately , most of them try one flight and dislike it so much that they avoid flying again . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Most of them include complete lists of the members of all the institutions and their senior staff , with addresses and telephone numbers . |
| 18 | They 're odd ; they have foibles ; they rob banks or steal cars or kill people , but otherwise most of them have normal lives . ’ |
| 19 | Most of them have six legs , and buzz . |
| 20 | Most common category is that of digital filter design programs and there are several of these and most of them have common features . |
| 21 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Such a rate of increase has not lasted , however ; 357 appeared in the 1987 issue of this guide , most of them representing new growth , but at a steadier rate . |
| 27 | Also , although people may have eaten more visible fat , today , most of us eat enormous amounts of invisible fat in cheese , other dairy products , processed foods , biscuits , cakes , chocolates , pies and pastries . |
| 28 | Most of us do these things for ourselves . |
| 29 | Partners have already er had that training er during the er during the summer months er it was carried out by er an outside consultant and most of us subjected ourselves to the se selling course , I think most of us derived some benefit from it . |
| 30 | Most of us travel long distances by schedule or charter flights , cramped together in ranks of seats Where there is n't enough room to stretch out the' leg , let alone walk about as passengers on the Empire Flying-boat or Zeppelin observation platforms could . |