Example sentences of "[prep] most [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worry of a breakdown is always at the back of most riders ' minds and when travelling on the continent the wise take out special cover . |
| 2 | Advertising costs now form a not inconsiderable part of the budget of most solicitors ' firms . |
| 3 | Pelé is the focus of most footballers ' attentions . |
| 4 | the space within which the larger part of most citizens ' daily working and consuming lives is lived . |
| 5 | Such contracts so far account for around 15% of most institutes ' funds . |
| 6 | From the appearance of most students ' notes one would assume that there is a continuing strike in the paper-making industry . |
| 7 | Mary Jones complains in a letter dated 1735 of the tediousness of most women 's verse : |
| 8 | Carol Gilligan , in In a Different Voice : Psychological Theory and Women 's Development ( 1982 ) , examines psychological theories concerning human moral development , and suggests that a male model has been developed which does not fit the experiences of most women 's lives . |
| 9 | As is typical of most women 's paid employment , this work is not considered particularly skilled and wages are low . |
| 10 | It still forms the centrepiece of most Westerners ' meals . |
| 11 | UNSURPRISINGLY recession is the theme of most Treasurers ' reports for the 1991 financial season . |
| 12 | Ten years ago I could make a reasonable job of most Shads ' numbers . |
| 13 | The fanfare of catwalk shows , exhibitions , and the production of designs that may never be worn , take up a great deal of most designers ' time and money . |
| 14 | Women 's domestic virtues comprised an important part of most feminists ' argument for the vote . |
| 15 | Like most officers ' children , Alex and Victoria were educated in Britain and had very little contact with children of any other class but their own . |
| 16 | Like most soldiers ' days , 30 June started early . |
| 17 | It was not like most gentlemen 's clubs , if you know what I mean . |
| 18 | In two-party systems with plurality voting rules which protect established parties from new entrants , and where the major parties are so internally democratic that party elites must satisfy the ‘ extreme ’ preferences of their activists , party manifestos can easily become ‘ over-polarized ’ compared with most voters ' views ( Finer , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Over 80 artists from some 14 nations entered for the new BP Peter Pears Award , each presenting a 22-minute programme representing their talents in opera , oratorio , baroque and 20th-century works ; Britten was to be heard in most contestants ' 20th-century selections . |
| 20 | Regional task forces estimate , however , that the gap between the hours stipulated in most juniors ' contracts and the hours that they will actually work is about five to 10 hours a week . |
| 21 | ‘ In most cases AS/400s are full of data , and users want a delivery system that can access this data via OS/2 or Windows . |
| 22 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 23 | What the bland uniformity of the final bestseller lists ( see opposite ) fails to reveal are the intriguing regional variations that could be found in most respondents ' submissions . |
| 24 | Three rewards that operate in most adults ' lives include : |
| 25 | In most managers ' minds , these worries are linked . |
| 26 | Turning now to antitrust policy , a major difference among advanced industrial countries in respect of their policy towards collusion lies in whether collusion is in most instances per se illegal , as in the US , or whether attention is directed at appraising the results of collusive behaviour , as for example in the UK . |
| 27 | Banks have a dominant role in most countries ' financial markets . |
| 28 | Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ? |
| 29 | And being a wife/partner is a much higher priority in most women 's lives ( 81% ) than being a mother ( 69% ) or a wage earner ( 47% ) . |
| 30 | envy , not pity , in most women 's eyes . |