Example sentences of "most [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most of the Peruvian children I had seen , the toddler appeared self-sufficient already . |
| 2 | Most of the essential tools we use are decorative as well as functional . |
| 3 | Most of the outside organisations he is involved with are based in the Midlands . |
| 4 | ‘ We have 30 men who are working from 6am to 11pm and most of the extra payments we would expect to receive may go on overtime . ’ |
| 5 | I still do n't like you much , Major , but I do n't say I 've liked most of the best fighters I 've trained . |
| 6 | ‘ You certainly are different from most of the young women I meet , Miss Levington , ’ he observed thoughtfully . |
| 7 | Barbour has brought out the flyweight Durham jacket ( £90 ) which , despite the description , is harder wearing but heavier than most of the other jackets I have tested . |
| 8 | Used to getting her own way with her father over most of the other things she desired , Freddie 's initial take-it-or-leave-it attitude had simply fuelled her determination . |
| 9 | I think all I think most of the other things I the only er one I I would like to raise is that it was agreed that the new committee should be recommended to appoint a press secretary . |
| 10 | Caroline Spry , the Channel 4 commissioning editor responsible for series like Out on Tuesday and Women Call the Shots , thinks it 's no longer possible to use the word in its old sense any more ; most of the other women I spoke to agreed with her . |
| 11 | Most of the other passengers I knew only vaguely , by face more than by name . |
| 12 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 13 | Thus while most of the blues-derived techniques I have mentioned appear to set the music in opposition to mainstream musical language ( including that of many contemporary pop songs ) , they are developed in such a way as to lay stress on individualistic virtuosity and personal expression , achieved through ‘ professional ’ mastery of instrumental technique ; and this could be seen as at least compatible with the traditions of bourgeois art . |
| 14 | And it granted Mr Gorbachev most of the new powers he had requested ( though it rejected his clumsy proposal for a system of local inspectors to help enforce presidential decrees ) . |
| 15 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 16 | Already to most of the regular customers she was n't the famous Aurora Blake , but simply , Rory , and she liked it that way . |
| 17 | The reason the process of telling the truth seems less complicated than I 've said is simply that we are n't conscious of most of the mental processes I 've been describing . |
| 18 | But in most of the specific decisions they took the Allied leaders wielded a personal power which the makers of the settlements of 1648 , 1713 or 1814 – 15 had never tasted . |
| 19 | I 'm aware of most of the crazy things they do . |
| 20 | The British Historic Buildings Trust is unable to pay architects , builders and financial backers because it can not raise money from most of the 33 houses it repaired in Hanover Square , Manningham , Bradford , West Yorks . |
| 21 | The British Historic Buildings Trust is unable to pay architects , builders and financial backers because it can not raise money from most of the 33 houses it repaired in Hanover Square , Manningham , Bradford , West Yorks . |
| 22 | Most of the solar panels we came across in our survey used monocrystalline silicone cells . |
| 23 | Most of the Italian ones I do n't have any trouble with . |
| 24 | Unlike most of the Vietnamese revolutionaries he was never anti-French and he welcomed the company of French writers , politicians , and even of one general , Leclerc . |
| 25 | Like most of the true crabs they can be very destructive in the reef tank . |
| 26 | Most of the well-bred girls he knew were coarse as cows beside her . |
| 27 | Most of the square-skulled men I followed in this way in the streets turned out to have very macho faces , conventionally handsome , proud , even disdainful , as if they felt they alone were the lords and masters of the earth . |
| 28 | It 's the same with most of the old ladies I talk to , and frankly it breaks your heart . |
| 29 | ‘ Especially as you 're Portuguese and most of the Portuguese men I 've met have held macho , conservative views on a woman 's role in life . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ This ban is a pain but I just have to get on with it and make the most of the top games I am allowed to play between now and the Five Nations ' . ’ |