Example sentences of "most [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 2 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 3 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 4 | Most of them will give you a written quotation for their services , in advance , if you ask for one . |
| 5 | Most of them could express themselves with a lilting eloquence which left the English spellbound . |
| 6 | Any conception of justice in personal behaviour , any theory about how the just person behaves toward others , will limit that area of personal sovereignty , but no conception acceptable to most of us will eliminate it entirely . |
| 7 | But there 's always some manner in which we ca n't quite break free , and most of us will find ourselves one shocked moment holding a girlfriend or boyfriend in the way we 've seen our parents holding each other for years . |
| 8 | Most of us will try anything to ease ourselves of the pain of having been unsatisfactory children . |
| 9 | Most of us will try anything rather than face the pain , yet that is the only way out of it , and tears and weeping are an essential factor in the cure . |
| 10 | Most of us will have our cars regularly serviced as a precaution against mechanical breakdowns and , in industry , there are many rules and regulations to stop accidents ever taking place . |
| 11 | I am sure you will have come across synergy , pushing the frontiers or rationalisation , and although most of you will know what they mean , can you give a simple explanation ? |