Example sentences of "[prep] most of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF YOU check out most of the serious blues books about the Mississippi players , you 'll be pushed to find a lot of stuff in there about John Lee Hooker . |
| 2 | ‘ When Mal picked the Lions team for the tour of Australia last summer he left out most of the Welsh players , ’ said the Salford full-back . |
| 3 | But the turkey farm developed elsewhere and Councillor Thomas worked arduously to Iron out most of the bureaucratic formalities which Bernard hated or ignored . |
| 4 | The Air Vice Marshal described how US Stealth bombers took out most of the Iraqi radar installations and in addition targeted nuclear and scud missile sites , admitting that Iraq 's defences were extremely good . |
| 5 | The government , through a rigorous cash limits approach , is forcing local authorities to carry out most of the unpopular cuts in actual services . |
| 6 | The sale of most of the lossmaking tyre distribution business to Sumitomo , now also a minority shareholder in the only British-controlled tyremaker 's plant , gives the board confidence in some improvement this year , despite a poor immediate outlook for the motor producers . |
| 7 | McElroy 's job — and that of most of the other 1100 people who work for NESDIS — would disappear if he discovers that firms are willing to take over . |
| 8 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 9 | This would present no great difficulty if one were dealing with a single cell but real lumber contains many thousands and it is necessary to diffuse the water from the inner cells through the walls of most of the other cells which lie between them and the outer world . |
| 10 | Toby was referring to one of the great stars in the American golfing firmament whom the sponsors were said to be paying £50,000 in appearance money , much to the disgust of most of the other professionals . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the high reliability of most of the new postwar plant , together with the policy of keeping very old plant in service virtually until it dropped apart ( there were few plant retirements in this period ) was sufficient for the National Grid Control to maintain a supply , albeit with immense efforts from the operating staff during the winter peaks , when virtually all available plant had to be maintained in readiness . |
| 12 | On 21 November it was announced that the pope had decided to increase the size of commissions to thirty , and to allow the Council direct election of most of the new members . |
| 13 | The recent correspondence about traffic problems and congestion fails to address the basic cause of most of the present chaos , which is the lack of consultation and co-operation by those responsible for the development of industry , office space , housing and schools , and public transport during the last 45 years . |
| 14 | The reason the process of telling the truth seems less complicated than I 've said is simply that we are n't conscious of most of the mental processes I 've been describing . |
| 15 | The full significance of the Danish vote seems to have escaped the immediate attention of most of the political leaders around Europe . |
| 16 | The other moments I will treasure were the near-perfect serving of Michael Stich in his first Wimbledon final against Boris Becker , which puts a new and totally unexpected name on that historic trophy ; the charmless street-fighter qualities of Monica Seles which nevertheless took her to the number one spot in the world while showing total contempt for most of the accepted standards of behaviour that should belong to a champion ; and finally the conversion of Andre Agassi from teenage rebel to near-establishment idol at Wimbledon , where he appeared in shining white and won the hearts not only of his adoring army of fans , but also of most of the middle-age traditionalists . |
| 17 | The position in relation to the use of medical services by the various socio-economic groups is as follows : the higher socio-economic groups make more use of most of the preventive local services ; the same , also , applies for the use of doctors ; the reverse , however , is the case in relation to the use of hospitals . |
| 18 | The complimentary press prompted some excitement to reverberate around the A and R departments of most of the major record labels . |
| 19 | The key submissions came from the IFMA and a joint submission from the Royal Bank of Scotland on behalf of most of the major institutions including the and . |
| 20 | At the same time , milk yields had to be substantially increased and sustainable and the scene was set for a revolution in breeding and for the development of most of the modern breeds . |
| 21 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 22 | This figure might well have been aimed at ‘ warbird ’ restorers but the FW 189 is possibly too ‘ off beam ’ for the tastes of most of the established operator/restorers . |
| 23 | The marital status of most of the opioid users known to two drugs agencies were obtained : the Drugs Council , which attracted users seeking therapy and counselling , and the Detoxification Unit , which attracted users more likely to be seeking medical treatment . |
| 24 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 25 | But her belief that all women , regardless of wealth , should be offered clothes that were artistic and beautiful , not brash , sexually offensive or uncomfortable , would have made her a worthy member of most of the nineteenth-century dress reform movements . |
| 26 | Nigel pretended a relative had just died and managed to get out of most of the remaining classes of the term . |
| 27 | non-manual , consisting of most of the remaining non-manual jobs , eg. foremen , shop assistants , clerical workers ; and |
| 28 | Three — Britain , Sweden and Switzerland — traditionally were low tariff countries with an industrial economy that relied upon the import of most of the necessary raw materials . |
| 29 | It was not , however , only from his good wages and comparatively secure employment that the mule spinner 's family enjoyed a standard of living well above that of most of the working class . |
| 30 | Between 1645 and 1660 , the official liturgy of the state church was that outlined in the Presbyterian Directory of Public Worship , which contained shortened and simplified versions of most of the pre-1640 Prayer Book ceremonies , purged of the features that the Puritans had found so offensive . |