Example sentences of "most [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 Most of them wore camouflaged smocks and jump boots .
5 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 .
6 Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads .
7 Most of them had similar extensions .
8 The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort .
9 Most of them became good Americans .
10 Most of them include complete lists of the members of all the institutions and their senior staff , with addresses and telephone numbers .
11 They 're odd ; they have foibles ; they rob banks or steal cars or kill people , but otherwise most of them have normal lives . ’
12 Most of them have six legs , and buzz .
13 Most common category is that of digital filter design programs and there are several of these and most of them have common features .
14 The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Most of us do these things for ourselves .
18 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 .
19 We have come to terms with the fact that most of us have subtle differences which determine the strengths and weaknesses of our make-up .
20 That 's fine , for those with the courage to do it , but most of us have enough shocks in midlife when we catch sight of ourselves fully clothed .
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