Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [prep] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 2 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |
| 3 | Henceforth the Justices of the Forest were for the most part great barons , who often held extensive estates in or near the forests they administered . |
| 4 | In 1945 , 28 per cent of violent crimes against the person were of the most serious nature — such as serious wounding or homicide — but by 1975 this proportion had dropped to 9 per cent , and by 1979 to 6 per cent . |
| 5 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 6 | Another small group of racial nationalists called ‘ The Nordics ’ amalgamated with the IFL in 1934 ; other organizations such as the Militant Christian Patriots , the White Knights of Britain and the National Socialist League were among the most conspicuous examples . |
| 7 | The colours used for fresco painting were for the most part easily obtained : red ochre , yellow ochre , black ( either from charred bone or from carbonaceous shale ) and blue ( from a copper-tinted glass ) . |
| 8 | Hezarfen , in a later passage than his list of Muftis , where he essentially simply follows Katib Celebi , is explicit on the point of separate muftiliks , though perhaps vague on the point of how official they were , saying : Until the end of the reign of Mehmed II there was not all that much glory and renown in the office of Mufti dignity and regard were for the most part dependent upon the person [ who held it ] . |