Example sentences of "[verb] that most [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact where it has been adopted results suggest that most employees are extremely realistic about their own performance and can indeed make a reasonably accurate assessment . |
| 2 | The conventional accounts of violence against women suggest that most men who are violent to women are mentally unstable in some way . |
| 3 | Our results suggest that most participants were fairly good at identifying ( i ) but rather poor at identifying ( ii ) , particularly on the first repetition . |
| 4 | It is expected that most undergraduates will take this . |
| 5 | I expect that most readers are in the 20–30 age group . |
| 6 | Finally , the ‘ intelligentsia ’ and scholarly circles — presumably attached to Leipzig University — in condemning Hess reportedly included some reproaches for Hitler for selecting such a ‘ mentally disturbed person as his possible successor ’ , though it was immediately added that most members of such circles were ‘ nevertheless convinced that the Führer no longer hears at all about the actual mood and situation within the Reich itself and that most things are kept from him ’ . |
| 7 | Stan Wickenden , purchasing director of Renshaws , quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions that Mitcham harboured fabulous nut-cracking machinery : ‘ Of course , you realise that most nuts are imported ready shelled . |
| 8 | We mentioned that most braids are marked' 100%' , meaning that they do not have a core . |
| 9 | ‘ If you went to a summer party in 1970 , ’ said Joanne Brogden , Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art , ‘ you could guarantee that most women would be wearing a long ‘ Laura Ashley ’ skirt or dress . |
| 10 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
| 11 | It was quite a surprise , therefore , to find that most galaxies appeared red-shifted : nearly all were moving away from us ! |
| 12 | It found that most adults come to faith in God through the help of a friend , a relative or a minister . |
| 13 | They also found that most women find greatest satisfaction from employing vibrators to the outer extremities of the vulva , rather than in deeper penetration . |
| 14 | New Woman magazine found that most girls still want to get spliced . |
| 15 | They found that most parents opposed closure and gave educational reasons for their attitudes . |
| 16 | I found that most parents were initially rather shocked at finding out their daughter was pregnant , some cried , some got angry , some were very matter-of-fact , and some were quite pleased . |
| 17 | In January a national poll found that most whites think blacks are lazy , less intelligent and less patriotic than whites are . |
| 18 | On testing for hepatitis B surface antigen after informed consent was obtained we found that most subjects had negative results ( 9/14 , 64% ) ; three ( 21% ; 0.03% of all those vaccinated ) had positive results ; there was no follow up testing on one patient , and the other was later found to have a low level of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen produced in response to an additional dose of vaccine . |
| 19 | However , a Consumers ' Association ( CA ) survey in 1990 found that most appliances did n't need any repairs at all over five years . |
| 20 | Adults forget that most children really do want to grow up , if only to exact their own small revenges . |
| 21 | This seems to indicate that most drivers have heeded the message of drink driving campaigns . |
| 22 | Participants reported that most workshops were very useful as they stood or needed minor modification . |
| 23 | Mansfield rightly concludes that most Arabs would like to live in a more tolerant society under efficient modern governments . |
| 24 | ‘ I think that what will happen is that subjective judgments will disappear , but I do not think that most companies will have any problems at all , ’ he said . |
| 25 | At their annual meeting in Swinbrook owners agreed that most Pugs belong to extroverts . |
| 26 | This served two purposes , firstly the importance of the problems was diminished when they were written down ( even the most depressed person could not resist a smile when they wrote down some of their worries — somehow they looked silly on paper ) and , secondly , it enabled them to delete items on the list when the problems were solved , thereby proving that most problems were capable of being solved . |
| 27 | And he recommended that most prisons should be ‘ community prisons ’ catering for a wide variety of prisoners from their locality , a prescription which does not seem readily compatible with the notion that this sort of mixture is conducive to disorder . |
| 28 | We chose 55–60 for screening by flexible sigmoidoscopy because few cancers occur before age 55 and the prevalence of distal bowel adenomas plateaus towards the end of the sixth decade , suggesting that most adenomas destined to develop in this region will have done so by this age . |
| 29 | And seeing that most countries are self sufficient either through , well primarily through protectionism , in that , that market 's going to be very volatile , it 's going to very susceptible to changes in output from one region or partic or , or one country . |
| 30 | So the sportsman takes the view that the rabbit is a worthy member of the wildlife community , while accepting that most farmers , perfectly understandably , take another view . |