Example sentences of "most of [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quantity , value and type of goods and services traditionally exported and imported by most of the contemporary rich nations , indeed , fell into fairly clear patterns . |
| 2 | By the late sixties most of the grand old names in shipbuilding were no more . |
| 3 | Moreover , Presbyterian nationalism was given the kiss of death by the Act of Union of 1707 , which most of the influential Presbyterian politicians and clergymen supported . |
| 4 | In addition to these advantages , the Data Discman is also a generic player while most of the current chip-based handhelds remain dedicated devices offering only the body of information which a customer purchases with the hardware . |
| 5 | The nation-state , therefore , is the spatial reference point for most of the crucial transnational practices that go to make up the structures of the global system , in the sense that most transnational practices intersect in particular countries and come under the jurisdiction of particular nation-states . |
| 6 | Moreover , they come on top of an unhappy experience with foreign currency borrowing for most of the Eastern European countries during the Seventies . |
| 7 | Unlike Unipart , BP already had a presence in most of the Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union ( FSU ) and was well placed to open up new markets previously restricted behind an iron curtain . |
| 8 | MOST of the 45,000 ex-Soviet troops in Poland are likely to leave by the end of the year after the resolution of a two-year row over the pull-out . |
| 9 | Although most of the existing dubious credits stem from the speculative frenzy of the late 1980s , banks have begun to admit that an increasing number of loans are non-performing because of general economic weakness . |
| 10 | Third , subsidiarity applies only to those areas which ‘ do not fall within the Community 's exclusive competence ’ , so it can not apply to vast areas of law , such as all internal-market measures and probably most of the existing social provisions which apply to the work-place . |
| 11 | Yet they count for little when balanced against his blindness to the cultural ferment which was agitating educated Germany by the later decades of his reign and his ignorant contempt for most of the greatest German writers and scholars of the age . |
| 12 | Even in Nigeria , Africa 's most densely populated country , with the largest urbanized , literate readership , most of the fifteen daily papers on sale in 1981 were running at a loss . |
| 13 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 14 | Nurse practitioners in most of the participating major departments managed no more than a small fraction of the patients each day . |
| 15 | He was so resistant to dancing that most of the principal male characters in his novels take sympathetic action and refuse to dance as well . |
| 16 | It is in these agencies of the mind that most of the higher mental functions which are uniquely characteristic of our species occur . |
| 17 | As most of the higher ecclesiastical posts were held by Germans , there was also a nationalist element to the movement . |
| 18 | One thing which has struck me very forcibly through the years is that most of the classic evolutionary lineages of my student days , such as Ostrea-Gryphaea and Zaphrentis delanouei , have long since lost their scientific respectability , and in spite of the plethora of palaeontological information we now have available , there seems to be very little to put in their place . |
| 19 | Indeed , most of the classic pluralist writers , such as Truman and Dahl were acutely aware of inequalities in the distribution of power and the relationship between these inequalities and social and economic status . |
| 20 | Most of the 34 religious houses , and 40 other foundations in the county depended on one founder , such as Sir John de Bohun of Midhurst who founded the Augustinian nunnery at Easebourne , but almost all enjoyed , in varying degree , support from quite minor benefactors such as this gift to Lewes Priory , c . |
| 21 | Like most of the Egyptian upper classes , Nuri was a Francophile . |
| 22 | The town was believed to have been founded in 1163 though most of the surviving old buildings date from the 16th. and 17th. centuries . |
| 23 | Most of the 44 stolen items still had price tags on them . |
| 24 | I shall argue in Chapter 4 that most of the adolescent Creole users are best treated as second dialect speakers of Creole rather than second language learners . |
| 25 | Most of the early Christian authorities claim the place of writing was Rome , although St Jerome , writing much later , says the Gospel was written in Alexandria . |
| 26 | These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm . |
| 27 | Most of the major private mines had worked normally . |
| 28 | This means that any work of copyright protected under the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 is also protected in all the countries which are members of these conventions which includes most of the major developed countries . |
| 29 | Most of the major American universities ( whether public or privately endowed ) have grown in the post-war period due to large defence related expenditure . |
| 30 | Celgene , with a turnover of about £3.3 million , is working with most of the major pharmaceutical companies in America and Europe . |