Example sentences of "[to-vb] most [prep] [art] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was switched off when the subject changed to pain control , which seemed to irritate most of the women present . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Roads will continue to meet most of the needs of British people and businesses . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now that we 're going to Kinsai , they 'll have to supervise most of the preparations . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The receivers , Price Waterhouse , hope to sell most of the businesses . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And the Director General of Fair Trading was given the powers to exercise most of the functions earmarked by Crowther for the Credit Commissioner . |
| 17 | It was agreed to incorporate most of the alterations , except that a compromise was reached on the Craft subjects . |
| 18 | It 's quicker to do most of the preparations myself though . ’ |
| 19 | The Adam-Gibbs equations also lead to a value of , so the theory appears to resolve most of the differences between the kinetic and thermodynamic interpretations of the glass transition . |
| 20 | Since users ' ability to appropriate most of the benefits of innovations is likely to be particularly evident in industries where spillovers or positive pecuniary externalities inhibit independent R&D by suppliers , it follows that co-operative R&D ventures amongst suppliers and user-led innovation programmes may be alternative methods of reaching the same goal . |
| 21 | If John and Bill have a lot in common if , for example , they come from the same community or are part of the same culture then Bill is likely to interpret most of the signals in the way John intended . |
| 22 | The Sejm had voted on Oct. 16 to reject most of the changes to the small constitution proposed by the Senate ( upper house ) , but in doing so had altered its rules of procedure , leading to a call for the Constitutional Tribunal to rule on the legality of the changed procedure . |
| 23 | But the team concluded that it was wiser to keep most of the assets in the portfolio — but make them work better . |
| 24 | Also the farmers have decided to keep most of the fields in grass for livestock . |
| 25 | That seemed to satisfy most of the nomes . |
| 26 | When in 1887 Florence Lees persuaded Queen Victoria to devote most of the women 's jubilee offering to establishing district nursing throughout England , the Cravens , together with Florence Nightingale and William Rathbone , were instrumental in ensuring that the Metropolitan and National Nursing Association became the model for Queen Victoria 's Jubilee Institute for Nurses . |
| 27 | Boyd believed firmly that all women were incurably avaricious and was certain that , once Olga knew about the book , she would try to squeeze most of the proceeds of it out of Hank ; and , to his credit , he was determined that this should not happen . |
| 28 | Opportunities for water sports are good on the island , and the RSM is able to get most of the soldiers on one short course , such as canoeing or diving , during the tour . |
| 29 | Eventually , and despite the onset of winter weather , we managed to get most of the sequences we wanted , including foxes scavenging on long , lonely stretches of shingle , male foxes pacing out and marking their territorial boundaries , foxes fighting , and cubs in search of their own territories . |
| 30 | The attractiveness of thermally stable structures for buildings that are in a day-long , year-round use seemed to influence most of the submissions . |