Example sentences of "[verb] by most [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wills , there has been no doubt of the widespread respect from all walks of life which has been earned by most Willses by the end of their lives . |
| 2 | THERE is no need for Mr Smith to impose taxes on capital or on financial institutions though : his policies look set to do their damage by knocking the most valuable asset owned by most voters — their homes . |
| 3 | It did not bother Mr Premadasa that he was disliked by most politicians , including many in his own party . |
| 4 | Central Asia is acknowledge by most authorities as the most likely birthplace of the oriental rug , and the Turkoman nomads , who have inhabited the region for millennia , are generally accepted as having inherited the oldest pile-weaving tradition still in existence . |
| 5 | ‘ However , the recovery in 1992 — expected by most economists and businesses — did not materialise and this year has turned out even more difficult than 1991 . ’ |
| 6 | Executive positions exist because there are problems that can not be solved by most employees . |
| 7 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 8 | A millionaire businessman who was currently the minority leader in the state 's House of Representatives , Isakson was considered by most commentators to be the most credible gubernatorial candidate fielded by the Republicans in Georgia for 90 years . |
| 9 | Characteristics of groups , like the characteristics of species , are thus considered by most theorists today to be the result of the selection of genes as they manifest themselves in the individuals comprising populations ( G. C. Williams 1966 ; Lewontin 1970 ; E. O. Wilson 1975 ) . |
| 10 | Marc Bazin , the leader of the MIDH , who was a liberal economist and former Finance Minister and World Bank official , and who was considered by most observers to be the most likely candidate to win fair and free presidential elections , was not believed to have been amongst those detained . |
| 11 | During the mid-1950s , at a time when continental drift was not seriously considered by most earth scientists , new evidence in the form of palaeomagnetic data from rocks again began to bring into question the notion of stationary continents . |
| 12 | The dull coloured brickwork merged into the undergrowth of trees , weeds and plants untamed and was hardly noticed by most passes by who probably dismissed it as one of Lincolnshire 's useless ruins , which would either fall down or have to be pulled down eventually . |
| 13 | They invested their money abroad , avoiding the poverty suffered by most Bahamians when the Civil War ended . |
| 14 | When in 1769 at a ball in St James 's palace the French ambassador in London , the comte du Châtelet-Lomont , risked provoking a diplomatic incident by pushing forward to assert precedence over his Russian colleague , Count Chernyshev , he was felt by most contemporaries to have been rude and indiscreet rather than to have shown a proper concern for the honour of Louis XV . |
| 15 | Gratitude , felt by most people as a burden , was welcome to the unassuming Willis . |
| 16 | It is necessary , therefore , to remember that for most of the century this admiration was not felt by most foreigners . |
| 17 | They are accepted by most hotels , shops and garages . |
| 18 | These forms are a cumbersome sheet , like a medieval scroll , although a short form is available and is accepted by most authorities . |
| 19 | It is generally accepted by most researchers in the field ( although there is now increasing concern over drought and climate change , see below ) , as is the three-step concept of forest damage , which distinguishes ‘ predisposing ’ , ‘ inciting ’ and ‘ contributing ’ factors . |
| 20 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 21 | It is perhaps a little too easily accepted by most commentators that because of the desire of the population at large to receive some immediate economic benefit from having won the war there was no alternative to seeking an American loan . |
| 22 | The name accepted by most scientists today for the two-shelled class of molluscs is also fortunately the simplest — Bivalvia . |
| 23 | Figure 6.5 is a model of the lunar interior , many features of which would be accepted by most scientists , though a minority would argue that it has yet to be established that the Moon has a global crust . |
| 24 | Distinct class variations could be observed , and from the mid-nineteenth century the existence of some form of class differentiation in family size had come to be accepted by most writers on the subject ; by the census of 1911 the difference in the fertility of certain groups was clearly marked . |
| 25 | It is assumed by the survey , and accepted by most historians of the period that married women with children did not go out to work unless they had to . |
| 26 | The Ford deal was accepted by most Aston owners ‘ with a surprising degree of sympathy , ’ says Gauntlett , ‘ largely , I suppose , because a majority of them are independent businessmen themselves , and understood the necessity . ’ |
| 27 | Until a few years ago this test had not been performed in any species with a bizarre male form , and the theory remained a speculation , tentatively accepted by most ethologists in the absence of any plausible alternative . |
| 28 | Such attitudes may not be shared by everyone , but are accepted by most people without question . |
| 29 | What is remarkable is that a consensus is achieved by natural selection , and the neologism is usually accepted by most people fairly quickly . |
| 30 | Although many firms do continue to diversify , there has been a growing mood against conglomerates and away from the notion that diversification was an automatic virtue and an inescapable trend , views which were accepted by most people in the 1960s and 1970s . |