Example sentences of "most of the [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Western world 's best sites have now been developed but potential still exists in less developed countries ; Zaire , for example , contains half of Africa 's hydro-electric potential . |
| 2 | Most of the latter group 's banks did so act , some holding as many as ten agencies . |
| 3 | Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War . |
| 4 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 5 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |
| 6 | Most of the Metropolitan Police 's bill is paid by the Home Office because of its many ‘ national ’ police services . |
| 7 | Mr Lozoraitis , 69 , an emigre and Lithuania 's ambassador in Washington , told a news conference that most of the new president 's team had no understanding of how a market economy worked . |
| 8 | Most of the many Women 's Action/Support Groups were founded spontaneously by residents of the communities , though in many cases they were stimulated to act by either or both of Scargill 's rhetoric and the example of other communities — often perceived through the voluminous television coverage achieved . |
| 9 | In February and March the process of electing local soviets ( councils ) and republican legislatures was at its height , with elections taking place in most of the Soviet Union 's 15 constituent republics . |
| 10 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 11 | Quite likely there would be those who travelled to the Continent in the hope of establishing family links though most of the original strangers ' would by now be dead . |
| 12 | This was when most of the older breeds ' herdbooks and breed societies were established and in 1874 the Nederlands Rundvee Stamboek ( NRS ) national herdbook was formed , operating on a provincial basis and registering and describing all breeds and types without differentiating between them . |
| 13 | HMS Sheffield , like most of the Royal Navy 's other modern warships , carried a set of equipment code-named Abbey Hill . |
| 14 | Most of the Royal Navy 's frigates in the south Atlantic carried their own Exocets ( Britain is the biggest customer for the missile ) , which they might well have fired against Argentinian ships in an all-out naval war . |
| 15 | For whilst other industries could relatively easily dispose of their waste materials , this was out of the question for most of the nuclear industry 's leftovers . |
| 16 | Two months later , at the end of November , legislative elections swept most of the old republic 's parliamentary elite out of office . |
| 17 | In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses . |
| 18 | The British Cabinet consists of most of the ruling party 's political ‘ heavyweights ’ , politicians who have either an acknowledged expertise , political following , reputation , or are close to the Prime Minister . |
| 19 | Shortly after Hanson completed the ConsGold takeover , £368million was raised by selling most of the British company 's GFSA stake . |
| 20 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 21 | Most of the Celtic Church 's sacred texts apparently continued in use for a time , after which they were gradually and quietly consigned to the libraries of orthodox Irish abbeys and monasteries . |