Example sentences of "most of the [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most of the Metropolitan Police 's bill is paid by the Home Office because of its many ‘ national ’ police services . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |