Example sentences of "[verb] most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fleets of the Witch King seized the Blighted Isle and retook most of the Shadowlands . |
| 2 | Such joints are said to pass most of the tests in the specifications for wood adhesives . |
| 3 | The Hanoverian succession per se does not appear to have been what triggered most of the unrest . |
| 4 | You will already have considered most of the factors under ‘ operational implications ’ , but do n't forget that you need to allow for the tea , coffee and biscuits that the second conference will be consuming in substantial quantities . |
| 5 | 6.1 We have now considered most of the major adjectival positions of English , with only the extraclausal to follow in Chapter 9 . |
| 6 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 7 | Residents in Middleton St George were stunned to find most of the new £3,000 roof lying in a field after a night of strong winds last month . |
| 8 | It was also the national cause that prompted Law to accept a junior position ; he took the Colonial Office himself , a backwater in wartime , and Liberals retained most of the major posts . |
| 9 | The British Government retained most of the cash , insisting it had taken Rechar allocations into account when determining local authority and development agency budgets . |
| 10 | Sir Christopher designed most of the buildings himself , but left the design of ‘ The Castle , to the terrifically fashionable architect John Carr of York , who had been taken up by the Yorkshire gentry after his triumph with the design for the grandstand on the racecourse at Knavesmire . |
| 11 | This sometimes means eliminating most of the original actors , and stretching down the hierarchy or even outside to discover a new chief who was not part of the original team . |
| 12 | The New Right — in the guise of the Reagan Administration in the US and , to a lesser extent , Thatcherism in the UK — had already attacked most of the conventional development wisdom of the Seventies . |
| 13 | We know the Germans are contributing most of the money . ’ |
| 14 | Citizens in those countries retained allegiance to the political process , content most of the time to leave politics to elites , while believing that they could influence the outcome of both local and national decision-making if necessary . |
| 15 | These seven matters are only Customs ' view and are not the law , but the tribunal would probably consider most of the matters relevant to the majority of cases . |
| 16 | Efforts continued to establish a harmonization of European accounting practices , in accordance with the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives ( 1978 and 1983 respectively ) , the first of which had created the Contact Committee of officials , the standards body which had originated most of the current proposals ( but which was still not recognized by many EC members ) , while the second had included measures to standardize the presentation of consolidated accounts within the EC ( see p. 36154 for earlier developments ) . |
| 17 | These miners provide most of the information for high LET radiation effects in humans . |
| 18 | The large enterprise of Jedburgh Kiltmakers stands beside the A68 north of Jedburgh , and large-scale mills and knitwear houses still provide most of the employment in Hawick on the Teviot . |
| 19 | Step-parents provide most of the economic and emotional care for some children . |
| 20 | The inquiry was conducted by senior officials from Central Regional Council and Stirling District Council , who provide most of the Smith 's funding . |
| 21 | The more complicated the decision space of the program , the more sophisticated will be the optimum driving system which may ultimately need most of the features of the full graphics-oriented database management system . |
| 22 | The small upper class — mainly Polish and Russian — had owned most of the land . |
| 23 | The Labour candidate in Southend East , which contains most of the town itself , is Graham Bramley , a teacher originally from Accrington . |
| 24 | As her photographs prove , the garden looks attractive and it contains most of the items a conventional garden is supposed to display . |
| 25 | It contains most of the reading passages , together with the pronunciation of all the terms listed in the glossary . |
| 26 | Dorado contains most of the Large Cloud of Magellan ( a small part of the Cloud extends into Mensa ) . |
| 27 | This screen contains most of the general payroll and personnel information about the employee , including such obvious items as name , sex , marital status , National Insurance number , date joined , date of birth , date joined pension fund , department , pay , grade , hours , job title . |
| 28 | Microsoft also now plans a new version of MS-DOS for early next year that will lack most of the features that had been expected in the MS-DOS 6.0 release , such as multi-tasking , and the company will now offer its object-oriented Cairo environment only for NT , and not for MS-DOS . |
| 29 | Some say most of the caring , as always , will fall to family and friends . |
| 30 | These probably contained most of the wheat produced on the farm that year , and could catch fire at any moment . |