Example sentences of "[prep] most [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lives in a vicarage and already carries out most of the duties a vicar does . |
| 2 | Mr Scott 's second suggestion , b ) , that the Garden should create and staff a new post of Computer Manager , was felt to be unnecessary at present , since the Computer Support Officer is the person who will be carrying out most of the tasks outlined by Mr Scott . |
| 3 | Put them into a product and you can take out most of the preservatives . ’ |
| 4 | Humans do this by screening out most of the alternatives with ‘ ends-and-means ’ heuristics . |
| 5 | No new ones were created after Pennsylvania , and over the next fifty years the government bought out most of the proprietors ' rights . |
| 6 | He also has been compelled to sit out most of the practices since Scotland 's omission from the Cup stages at Canberra last week . |
| 7 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 8 | At the back of the machine , on our level , an ingenious device separates out most of the stones : a circular rubber pad revolves below brushes , which are stiff enough to sweep the potatoes off into their special channel , but not rigid enough to dislodge the stones until later . |
| 9 | Now it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that during the intervening twenty-five years the lord had bought out most of the freeholds , which , with few exceptions , must have been very small , and might just be identified with the sixteen ‘ Farme Landes ’ . |
| 10 | But Comdisco made a bundle leasing 3090-Es , upgrading its base of original 3090s and navigating past most of the rocks and shoals of the mainframe disk business , which was adjusting to IBM 's impressive 3380-K drives . |
| 11 | The holders eventually disposed of most of the bonds at a ruinous discount . |
| 12 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |
| 13 | He 'd worked in the building for five years , and knew the names of most of the occupants ' visitors . |
| 14 | These are not at all interwoven in the style of most of the reconstructions . |
| 15 | Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness . |
| 16 | Although dealing with a much smaller area confined to Insula XIV , an Insula which is half the size of most of the others , nevertheless , as many as 1293 well stratified vessels of coarse ware are published . |
| 17 | She had observed with a quiet pleasure how the strident Roscoe woman had markedly cooled towards her former partner after his refusal ( and that of most of the others ) to sign her petulant letter of complaint concerning Sheila Williams . |
| 18 | They 're being coached by one of the country 's best female players , but they 've also got the support of MOST of the boys ' team . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the general war-weariness of most of the electors still ensured a Tory victory . |
| 20 | if the themes of most of the sentences of a paragraph refer to one semantic field ( say location , parts of some object , wisdom vs chance , etc. ) then that semantic field will be perceived as the method of development of the paragraph . |
| 21 | Typical of most of the systems that will be at HOTECH are wake-up and message services ; posting of charges for telephone calls to the room account ; facilities to advise housekeeping when bedrooms are free for cleaning ; and display of the guest 's name on the operator console . |
| 22 | They illustrate how the DES is concerned with all aspects of education , though at a broad , policy-making level ; the administration of most of the areas is at present the responsibility of the LEAs . |
| 23 | The fate of most of the soldiers and volunteers who fought the fire at the plant , exposing themselves to vast doses of radiation , remains a mystery . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , this would be to empty the term of most of the meanings which it carries in actual discourse . |
| 25 | The rents of most of the houses in Combsburgh vary from 1/ — to 1/6d per week . ’ |
| 26 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 27 | ‘ A year later Hugh Butterworth , chief executive of Clark Whitehill , wrote to him saying that a copy of Mr Young 's will , which included names of most of the investors , had been sent to the Revenue without Clark Whitehill 's permission . ’ |
| 28 | Furthermore , the cause-and-effect relationship which forms the basis of most of the students ' predictions is actually reversed to an effect-and-cause relationship . |
| 29 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 30 | Among the measures approved by the HCR was the restoration to Eyadema of most of the powers stripped from him in August 1991 [ see p. 38379 ] . |