Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a number of recent recordings of these works by various players , most of whom claim in one way or another the composer 's approval of their performance , it is certainly worth hearing how Messiaen himself approached his organ music . |
| 2 | The AAPA 's membership covers 1,100 individuals who are authorised as auditors by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under the Companies Act 1967 , most of whom work as sole practitioners . |
| 3 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |
| 4 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 5 | Most of them stick to one corner . |
| 6 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 7 | Most of them fall into one ( or sometimes more ) of three categories in this respect : the disposition is seen as being inherited , acquired or invented . |
| 8 | Most of them come with explanatory booklets detailing the words and commands the computer understands , and include a description of each cave or room that Samson might enter . |
| 9 | The number of people with AIDS varies enormously between countries , but most of them come from large towns rather than rural areas . |
| 10 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 11 | Most of them reappear with little change in the ‘ Ainulindalé ’ or ‘ Valaquenta ’ . |
| 12 | It is appropriate , then , that Ali has been the subject of a great number of pieces in Esquire , most of them written by undisputed literary heavyweights , including Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer among others . |
| 13 | As a former psychiatric nurse , now a general nurse , I see many psychiatric patients , most of them heterosexual , most of them suffering from low self-esteem . |
| 14 | Books — shelves and shelves of books , reaching up to the ceiling , most of them bound in pale calf with gold lettering on the spines . |
| 15 | Most of them belong to one of a small number of families of related molecules in which the individual members share the same basic molecular structure but are subtly different from each other ( figure ) . |
| 16 | So far , about 40,000 workers have gone on strike in roughly 80 steel and engineering companies , most of them owned by western German firms or the Treuhand , the agency privatising east German industry . |
| 17 | Going into the big general waiting room , Daisy no longer noticed the many photographs of grateful animals and their owners which decorated the walls , most of them signed with fulsome messages indicating every degree of gratitude . |
| 18 | Hospitals throughout the area were put on full alert as fleets of ambulances carried the injured , most of them hit by flying glass , to casualty departments . |
| 19 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 20 | Recent reports following scandals and appalling practice have made recommendations on how to improve the service , most of which remain in some minister 's waste bin . |
| 21 | Individual union policy seems to have been a major factor behind signing technology agreements , most of which derive from four white collar unions : APEX ( general clerical union ) , ASTMS ( general technical and supervisory union ) , NALGO ( local government staff ) and TASS ( technical staff in engineering ) . |
| 22 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |
| 23 | On average , people in their age group watch five hours of television daily , most of which consists of imported programmes . |
| 24 | In fact , it has risen by 2.5 percent , forcing the government to import about 7 per cent of its supply from France , Belgium and Germany , most of which originates in nuclear generation . |
| 25 | Once common , the seal is believed to number only around 300 , most of which live in small , scattered colonies , thereby weakening their chances of survival . |
| 26 | The closest most of us get to Irish culture is a pint of Guinness and the first few pages of Ulysses . |
| 27 | Wherever you take them , though , try , if it is possible and the weather is good , to arrange for them to spend some of the time out of doors — for the housebound elderly are often short of vitamin D , which most of us get from natural sunlight ( as well as certain foods ) and this deficiency can lead to the painful condition of osteomalacia , in which there is rarefaction of the bones . |
| 28 | Hair loss is quite normal and most of us lose between 100 and 150 hairs each day . |
| 29 | Most of us living in industrialised countries are familiar with social surveys of one type or another . |
| 30 | When the end is coming , screens are placed round the bed ; in any case there are unlikely to be any ‘ last words ’ , because most of us die under some form of sedation . |