Example sentences of "[verb] most [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hanoverian succession per se does not appear to have been what triggered most of the unrest . |
| 2 | The British Government retained most of the cash , insisting it had taken Rechar allocations into account when determining local authority and development agency budgets . |
| 3 | We know the Germans are contributing most of the money . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These miners provide most of the information for high LET radiation effects in humans . |
| 7 | The small upper class — mainly Polish and Russian — had owned most of the land . |
| 8 | It contains most of the reading passages , together with the pronunciation of all the terms listed in the glossary . |
| 9 | The Labour candidate in Southend East , which contains most of the town itself , is Graham Bramley , a teacher originally from Accrington . |
| 10 | Some say most of the caring , as always , will fall to family and friends . |
| 11 | These probably contained most of the wheat produced on the farm that year , and could catch fire at any moment . |
| 12 | Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years . |
| 13 | Other changes highlighted in 1989 by the National Economic Development Council include an aging workforce ( in the 1990s the working population will become increasingly concentrated in the middle age groups and in the year 2000 there are likely to be 1.8 million more people aged 35 to 54 ) and an expanding adult labour force ( women returning to the labour market are expected to provide most of the growth in labour force in the 1990s ) . |
| 14 | I 'm particularly interested in the shipping side because it seems to provide most of the group 's cash flow at the moment . " |
| 15 | Each fund aims to provide most of the upside potential of the relevant stockmarket but to reduce the downside risk considerably by using futures and options . |
| 16 | Shares back-tracked most of the session and at the end of the day the FT-SE 100 closed with a drop of 8.4 points to 2702.7 . |
| 17 | He says both Mr Mellor and his wife , who supervised most of the work , were kept informed of escalating costs . |
| 18 | Army intelligence supervised most of the information gathering and army technicians handled much of the technical work . |
| 19 | The area has escaped the ravages of war and forest clearance which have devastated most of the region . |
| 20 | Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’ |
| 21 | Greater Bayonne has most of the town 's shops , the covered market , and the cathedral . |
| 22 | This will not be a matter of one-way giving , even though the suburban church has most of the material resources . |
| 23 | Along the waterways was carried most of the stone required to build our medieval cathedrals . |
| 24 | The main determinant of territory size in predators is the resource dispersal in the territory , the distribution of the productive areas that supply most of the food for the predators ' hunting area . |
| 25 | They dismissed most of the government 's ‘ preserved ’ land as bogs and scrubland . |
| 26 | They were making so little progress on the Monday that Peter Hickton took the sensible decision and dismissed most of the cast at lunchtime ; he would sit down with Michael Banks and George Birkitt all afternoon and just go through the lines . |
| 27 | By now I 'm mostly tired , I was driving most of the night . |
| 28 | They found most of the equipment to do just that in my flat when they searched it : an answer-machine , my PC and its modem ; another lead or two and it would have been easy to set it up if you knew what you were doing , or just used trial and error and were patient . |
| 29 | 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC . |
| 30 | The above list is by no means exhaustive , but it covers most of the matrix types which arise in the present text . |