Example sentences of "most of [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 2 | It is easy enough to say What Makes Martin Run : a sincere belief that Hong Kong needs true democracy , even if most of its present leaders disagree . |
| 3 | Most of its present members are over 60 . |
| 4 | It was founded in the late 700s , but most of its present buildings ( pastel-coloured and timbered , and punctuated with onion-dome towers ) date from the reconstruction in the late 1600s and 1700s , after the 30 years war . |
| 5 | A ‘ High Victorian ’ building , it was built for an Irish metal merchant and has most of its interior courtyard and galleries intact . |
| 6 | At the end of the novel it is closed to the public , and most of its stately rooms are shut up : ‘ the light of the drawing-room seems gradually contracting and dwindling until it shall be no more ’ . |
| 7 | According to Straub , OSF recognises there is a lot more it could do , marketing-wise , but most of its limited resources go on research and development . |
| 8 | Most of its many banks are in Zurich . |
| 9 | This can be a delicate operation since it is desirable that this card fill most of its allotted area . |
| 10 | Neath have been a force in the Welsh game for most of its 120 years but were never , until lately , the force . |
| 11 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 12 | The position of the head as manager and the position of the manager as leader needs to be thought out — and the head is likely to be more isolated in organizing a school 's community role than in most of its other activities . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State has , by virtue of an Order made under section 114 , transferred the function of recognition , together with most of its other functions under Part I of the Act , to the Securities and Investments Board Ltd . |
| 14 | The TE Electronics spin-off is now moot , and Tandy says it is likely to sell most of its other manufacturing assets instead . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ The Government says it wants to reduce tobacco consumption by 40 per cent by the year 2000 , but it has refused to ban tobacco advertising and is not making the most of its other weapon . ’ |
| 16 | She said : ‘ The Government says it wants to reduce tobacco consumption by 40 per cent by the year 2000 , but it has refused to ban tobacco advertising and is not making the most of its other weapon . ’ |
| 17 | He has been careful to hide most of its nine-storey bulk underground , which suits its other use , as the town library , and he says that the gallery courtyard , with generous cascading staircases linking all the public levels , has been inspired by the hill towns of the region , with their steps and terraces . |
| 18 | Most of its 3,000 members are Anglicans and many of them work in the field of church music . |
| 19 | In 1987 dirt-poor Bolivia , which cut inflation from 20,000% a year to less than 10% , was allowed to use borrowed money to buy back most of its commercial-bank debt at 11% of the face value . |
| 20 | It was in these two areas ( poetry and prose narrative ) that Formalism made most of its practical contributions to the study of literature . |
| 21 | He served not only on the Royal Commission for the reform of Oxford , but also on the one that looked into scientific education , and drafted most of its final report . |
| 22 | The first would tell of the late Roman empire and its fate after the reorganization by the Emperors Diocletian and Constantine , until most of its Western provinces were superseded by barbarian kingdoms . |
| 23 | Henry Fairweather , group personnel and services director , acknowledges that most of its female managers are in areas one might expect such as marketing , information services and personnel . |
| 24 | It can attain magnitude 6.7 , and is then within binocular range , but for most of its 465-day period it is too faint . |
| 25 | Below : Set in a large , sloping garden amid mature trees , this elegant design by Cascade makes the most of its south-facing position . |
| 26 | Over most of its geographical range , the middle shore acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides is the favoured food ; where 5. balanoides is scarce or absent , Nucella distribution reflects the availability of mussels , limpets or winkles . |
| 27 | Most of its best organizers and natural membership joined the Labour Party . |
| 28 | With an 8% inflation rate , the Philippines anyway finds it hard to compete with most of its successful neighbours . |
| 29 | Sun Sparc-based machines have 57% of the European RISC-based workstation market according to IDC : MIPS R-series is in second place with 19% , IBM Corp 's Power is third with 10% and HP 's PA fourth with 8% — its low showing reflecting the fact that most of its installed base of workstations are still based on the 68000 line . |
| 30 | Sun 's traditional association with the scientific and technical workstation community means most of its installed servers — and associated software and services — fall into IDC 's workstation bracket . |