Example sentences of "[prep] most [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most first sermons it puts in too many ideas at once . |
| 2 | Like most such documents it was probably an exaggeration but it marked the approaching end of a peculiarly rich period of vitality in the county . |
| 3 | Like most tired children she is touchy , tearful and uncooperative . |
| 4 | Like most Byzantine churches it is unpretentious and lacking in colour . |
| 5 | Like most small criminals he had about as much grasp of the laws of cause and effect as a very young child and rather less imagination . |
| 6 | Bel-Hathor seemed an inauspicious choice ; like most Sapherian princes he was something of an eccentric . |
| 7 | Like most Liberal Democrats he 's been emphasising education , as his presence greeting parents outside a school in Oxford 's Jericho demonstrated . |
| 8 | Like most upper-class Anglicans he would have found the incarnation more understandable if God had chosen to visit His creation as an eighteenth-century English gentleman . |
| 9 | However , like most beautiful timbers it was horrible to work , being very soft and crumbly . |
| 10 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |
| 11 | If I were growing potatoes , like most sensible gardeners I 'd let them grow . |
| 12 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 13 | Repeated notes , both in groups of twos and threes , are a characteristic feature of horn writing , and though passages requiring considerable agility are to be found in most modern scores they are usually well and safely doubled by other instruments , as they are apt to sound woolly and ill-defined in shape if left to the horns alone . |
| 14 | In most traditional farmsteads it was also the central point to which the other buildings related . |
| 15 | They used to pass the time being cruel to the poor , gambling , whoring and indulging in most other perversions you could care to name . ’ |
| 16 | Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides . |
| 17 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 18 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 19 | At this stage the hand and gun mechanisms were still on a vertical , rather than horizontal , plane , but in most other respects it was the Dalek . |
| 20 | Its dorsal region may be enlarged to form a shield as in the Orthoptera , Dictyoptera , Coleoptera and Heteroptera ; in most other orders it is a narrow annular segment . |
| 21 | In most liberal democracies it has gradually been supplemented by a new plebiscitary politics , based on the cult of charismatic leaders built up through the mass media . |
| 22 | Then encourage the others to do the same ; in most two-storey homes you may well be able to catch ‘ suspended ’ children in your arms . |
| 23 | But in most small businesses it really is n't worth their while having accountants in . |
| 24 | In most psychiatric units it is now usually considered inappropriate to have one member of staff constantly accompany a patient at risk . |
| 25 | For most large projects it is usual to prepare a more formal document , called a financial memorandum , as a means of attracting potential sources of finance . |
| 26 | If so then on the assumption , surely acceptable to Nozick as to most people , that the prospect of a profit is a valid reason for most commercial activities it follows that selling arms to one of the combatants for profit does not jeopardize one 's neutrality . |
| 27 | For most diurnal raptors it was difficult to obtain large enough samples , not through any shortage of pellet collections but because they contained so little bone . |
| 28 | Alan Cairn 's view was echoed by most other ministers I talked to . |