Example sentences of "[conj] most people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some solicitors may prefer the atmosphere of a relatively small company where most people know each other . |
| 2 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 3 | Although most people have some background training in languages , it appears to be too little and , or , of the wrong type . |
| 4 | However , I appreciate that most people live some distance from the sea and these factors will need to be addressed immediately . |
| 5 | That 's the that 's the most awkward thing to do the one that most people have most problem with . |
| 6 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 7 | Freud was a Hobbesian thinker , erm , in the sense that the id , certainly was egoistic , anti-social and everything that Thomas Hobbes said about human nature , er , could apply to the id , that 's perfectly true , and most people see this , and it 's er it , it 's a commonplace , particularly in the social science writing on Freud . |
| 8 | And most people think that 's what a contract is . |
| 9 | I have heard many other definitions ( not all of them polite ) , but most people agree that advancement of some sort features in their long-term plans for the future . |
| 10 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 11 | If you do n't tell anybody nobody 's going to react to that until it starts to annoy them , because most people think that everybody else is going to do something about it . |
| 12 | However , it is important to bear in mind that while most people break some , if not many , of the laws of their society , few people are found guilty of criminal offences . |