Example sentences of "and [conj] most [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coffee crash was felt strongest in areas where there was less cattle stealing , and where most of the stealing was casual . |
| 2 | She found that about two-thirds of the women whom she studied had relied upon female kin at some stage , and that most of the support which they received was child care , coming principally from mothers and mothers-in-law , but also sisters , sisters-in-law , aunts and grandmothers . |
| 3 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 4 | Remember also that the ‘ Great ’ C major Symphony was not composed , as had been assumed , in 1828 , and that most of the writing was contemporary with the earlier D major Sonata , whose textures are so unmistakably orchestral in outline . |
| 5 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 6 | In spite of the fact that Champion ( 1981 , 20 ) has argued that ‘ some of the most spectacular changes have occurred in those rural areas which are relatively remote from traditional metropolitan influences ’ it must also be remembered that the extra numbers in the remote areas are relatively modest , compared with those in the outer margins of the main centres of population , as shown in Figure 5.3 , and that most of the population growth has been strongly associated with smaller towns and accessible settlements in the countryside both in England ( OPCS , 1981b ) and Ireland ( Duffy , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | However , it does have distinct areas of relief and there are very good air photographs of the area , taken by the RAF in 1947 , which show that there was formerly an extensive deserted village near the present church and manor house and that most of the parish was covered with ridge and furrow earthworks . |
| 8 | All the ingredients would be there in Carry on Sergeant and although most of the stock characters would come later , the basic idea was evident from the first ever laughs for a ‘ Carry On ’ film in 1958 . |
| 9 | After lengthy discussions at the highest level it was decided that because of the confidentiality of the information , and since most of the authorization procedures were already within the personnel function , the responsibility for the new system should be vested within Personnel . |
| 10 | The clinical signs are likely to be few , and since most of the damage occurs during the prepatent phase , eggs may not be found in the urine . |
| 11 | It was an excellent little cameo , and as most of the dialogue was in the form of a rehearsed speech to the court of Alexandria it would hardly matter if , overcome by nerves , she forgot her lines . |
| 12 | As always with Mussorgsky , and never more so than in the case of this opera , the issues are complicated ; and though most of the work 's admirer 's would now agree that Shostakovich 's orchestration is closer to the spirit of a composer he deeply admired than that of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose admiration led him to wish to ‘ sell ’ the work in the West , there are reservations to be made . |
| 13 | This force was applied by those long , black-nyloned legs , and though most of the pressure was provided by her left limb , some residual effort pushed her right foot down as well , and on each occasion we speeded up , just momentarily , as her amply-soled Doc Marten pressed against the accelerator . |