Example sentences of "most of [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 2 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 3 | In any given year there may be 120,000 or 130,000 elections held , most of them for local school boards . |
| 4 | The six sections of that car were allocated to twelve assorted actors and crew , most of them at that point reading , talking or fast asleep . |
| 5 | At the target range in Van Nuys , a lower middle-class white suburb in the Valley , north of Central Los Angeles , I saw a dozen people line up early in the morning to take target practice with hand-guns , shooting at targets shaped like men — most of them at 25 paces : ‘ the most common range for street warfare , ’ as one man there put it . |
| 6 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 7 | One large group of negatives had apparently been taken at a fancy dress party organised by the Duke of Devonshire — over 100 guests had been photographed , most of them with different background settings . |
| 8 | It takes us into their homes , gives space for their voices ; and Townsend powerfully attacked the widespread myth that the family was no longer providing most of them with social support or practical help . |
| 9 | Yet , once the bug has bitten , it is amazing how so many home-brewed designs appear , and most of them with excellent stitching in all its variations . |
| 10 | Nowadays , they 're nearly all engined , most of them with steadying sails . |
| 11 | But a number of able scholars , most of them of liberal sympathies , were drawn into western academic life and played a leading role in guiding western research . |
| 12 | Since all goods are donated , most of them of high quality coming from the more affluent within and outwith the parish , charges for them can be minimal so providing a social service as well as a subsidy towards the hall expenses . |
| 13 | Since its launch , the first boat , appropriately named British Steel Challenge , has sailed 400 miles a week , most of them within 15 miles of Plymouth . |
| 14 | In all he fought 257 combats at Verdun , most of them against heavy odds , and shot down eleven planes . |
| 15 | The workers in the 34,000 co-operatives , most of them in rural areas , had seen no benefit from the reforms of the late 1980s and were experiencing deteriorating living standards . |
| 16 | Initially , it would focus on separating plutonium from spent fuel as a service to about 125 research reactors , most of them in developing countries . |
| 17 | ‘ It is ironic that the Council 's projects , most of them in one way or another emphasizing the value of local initiative , teacher involvement , school-level decision-making and various innovations in pedagogy such as inter-disciplinary teaching , should lead to heightened activity nationally to control the curriculum . ’ |
| 18 | With the notable exception of Britain most of them in one way or another involved the banks , either directly or through the fashionable device of the crédit mobilier , a sort of industrial finance company which regarded the orthodox banks as insufficiently suited to or interested in industrial financing and competed with them . |
| 19 | There were motor lorries in their dozens , most of them in Royal Navy blue , and convoys of staff cars and vans . |
| 20 | The players , who already knew the value of the advertising dollar , were endlessly pumped onto the television advertisements ( most of them in soft focus ) as they mouthed clichés and manufactured statements about what they hoped to do at the World Cup . |
| 21 | On nationalisation around a quarter of households in Britain still lacked a supply of electricity , most of them in urban slums ( which had been uneconomic to connect either because of their short expected life or the inability of the occupants or unwillingness of their landlords to pay for internal wiring ) . |
| 22 | He has mentioned most of them in earlier correspondence with me and I see many hon. Members on the Opposition Benches who have also mentioned them , either in correspondence or in parliamentary questions . |
| 23 | The journal has 10,000 subscribers , most of them in Latin America and the United States . |
| 24 | Of the 1.7 million Yugoslavs who died , more than half were killed in Bosnia , most of them by fellow Yugoslavs . |
| 25 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 26 | A total of 43 people died on Jan. 14 , most of them from toxic cyanide fumes , after a fire broke out at a Zaragoza nightclub . |
| 27 | According to the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , as many as 50,000 troops might be assigned to the new force , most of them from existing units , including an Anglo-Dutch amphibious division , a planned multinational North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) division and the recently formed Franco-German corps [ see pp. 38931-32 ] . |
| 28 | What 's more , UVA is solely responsible for polymorphic light eruption , known to most of us as prickly heat . |
| 29 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 30 | Most of us at any age enjoy a good chat , but in how many Homes do you see small groups of residents talking to each other ? |