Example sentences of "[to-vb] most [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such joints are said to pass most of the tests in the specifications for wood adhesives . |
| 2 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was the stratum of society from which Eadmer had come before the arrival of the Normans , and it almost certainly continued to provide most of the monks after the Conquest also . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | I 'm particularly interested in the shipping side because it seems to provide most of the group 's cash flow at the moment . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was switched off when the subject changed to pain control , which seemed to irritate most of the women present . |
| 9 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 10 | You say to an A type , sorry I say you 've got to work most of the night to get this done , they 'll moan but they 'll do it , B types turn round and say , no way . |
| 11 | IMPROVEMENTS However in the NorthEast , Tyneside and Wearside appeared to contain most of the blackspots while the smaller towns and rural areas showed marked improvements . |
| 12 | In order to meet most of the cost of this new central government spending , the standard rate of value added tax would go up from 15 to 17.5 per cent effective April 1 ( the first increase since June 1979 ) so as to produce anticipated additional revenue of nearly £4,000 million in 1991-92 . |
| 13 | In theory there is sufficient geothermal energy under Cornwall to meet most of the electricity requirements of southern England . |
| 14 | Roads will continue to meet most of the needs of British people and businesses . ’ |
| 15 | By the frequency of his visits he came to know most of the artists and was fond of addressing them in a loud voice by their first names as they came out of the studio . |
| 16 | Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story . |
| 17 | Now that we 're going to Kinsai , they 'll have to supervise most of the preparations . ’ |
| 18 | LWT ( HOLDINGS ) , the parent of London Weekend Television , yesterday revealed the details of its plan to replace most of the company 's equity with debt and give 40 top managers up to 15 per cent of the group 's shares . |
| 19 | While the most prominent member of the VSC , Tariq Ali , was soon to become a member of a smaller , and less durable , International Marxist Group , it was the IS which did much of the groundwork , and which over the next five years was to reap most of the recruits . |
| 20 | He spent a great deal of time inexpertly milking complaining cows , only to feed most of the milk to the pigs . |
| 21 | Accordingly , we reduced the sensitivity of our scanning sonars to eliminate most of the signals from fish , to the point where only larger fish registered in the surface layers , and the calibration fish , the 330-g trout , was barely detectable at 25 m . |
| 22 | The receivers , Price Waterhouse , hope to sell most of the businesses . |
| 23 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
| 24 | Most of the students were able to answer most of the questions but , as you would expect , many of the viewers had one or more questions to which they could not remember the answer . |
| 25 | Psychologists have observed that in a group composed of men and women , the men usually set the agenda , choose topics for discussion , and tend to answer most of the questions posed during the group discussions . |
| 26 | The GEF is likely to handle most of the funds which are expected to be pledged by donor countries under conventions on climate change and the protection of biological diversity due to be agreed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , in June . |
| 27 | He avoids these people ( who seem to constitute most of the people he knows ! ) and often seeks the company of children instead of adults . |
| 28 | MCI has already signed contracts to buy most of the fibre for the network , which should be completed in 1987 . |
| 29 | MEDIRACE is raising £81.8million through a rights issue to cover most of the cost of the Evans Healthcare acquisition , which will propel it into a much bigger league . |
| 30 | Half the British Gas regions did not tell callers that grants were available to cover most of the cost . |