Example sentences of "most of [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many spectators had squatted on the dunes surrounding the 6th , most of them on the Maiden itself . |
| 2 | When Morley brought out his Canzonets or Little Short Aers to five and sixe Voices in 1597 , he also provided most of them with a lute transcription of the lower voices . |
| 3 | I remember writing most of them with the assistance of liberal quantities of dope . |
| 4 | There are more than twenty circuses currently touring Britain , most of them without an elephant or a tiger in sight . |
| 5 | She started flicking through the messages , most of them in the handwriting of Mrs Whittaker , the secretary of the English department . |
| 6 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 7 | Within months of the outbreak of war a group of young men , most of them in the ILP , had established the No-Conscription Fellowship ( NCF ) . |
| 8 | Several successful interceptions were made by Venturous , Valiant and Vigilant , most of them in the Thames Estuary and Ramsgate area . |
| 9 | More than 5,000 people were believed to have been killed , most of them in the town of Ormoc , and 120,000 were left homeless , with thousands more still missing and presumed dead . |
| 10 | 4 Make a rough diagram of your design and determine whether it is appropriate to the size of the site , e.g. a herb border on the grand scale will not be successful in an area 3 x 3 metres ( 10 x 10 ft ) ; in other words the proportions of the design should be such that there is room to make the most of them in the area concerned . |
| 11 | The story begins in early 1981 with the deaths of 46 child patients , most of them in the hospital 's paediatric cardiac wards . |
| 12 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 13 | Extrinsic rewards Those tangible rewards that probably attract most of us into the workforce in the first place . |
| 14 | As a rule , financial embarrassment leaves most of us with no choice but to run with the crowd . |
| 15 | Once was enough and most of us in the jockeys room agreed on that . |
| 16 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 17 | Although he has a large enough income to support them both , he puts most of it into a building society and also invests money in shares . |
| 18 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |
| 19 | ‘ One hundred and fifty miles , most of it over the sea . ’ |
| 20 | But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary . |
| 21 | Flake the tuna and add most of it to the bowl , together with the beans . |
| 22 | Thirty five for an ordinary one you know everything to my spouse or most of it to the spouse with bits to the children er well r we usually run to about thirty five pounds . |
| 23 | Long afterwards neglect , culminating in damage and destruction , almost destroyed Painshill , until Elmbridge borough council acquired most of it for the Painshill Park Trust , which revived Hamilton 's original designs through a vigorous programme of renewal . |
| 24 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 25 | He probably paid a month 's wages for tonight and look , he wasted most of it on the mattress . |
| 26 | Anyone who feels he can afford to risk the lion 's share of his £2,400 could have most of it in the opportunity trust . |
| 27 | Martin Marietta Corp has damaged its credit rating with Standard & Poor 's Corp with its decision to buy General Electric Co 's aerospace unit for about $3,050m , most of it in the form of new debt : the agency cut its rating on the senior debt to single-A from single-A-plus , and affirmed its A-1 commercial paper rating . |
| 28 | By far the largest part of daimyo tax income , most of it in the form of rice , was shipped to Osaka . |
| 29 | Most of it in the form of these uranium rods . |
| 30 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |