Example sentences of "most of his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reynolds , sidelined for 2-years by a disputed doping suspension , made the most of his first appearance back on the world 's stage as he caught Nigerian Sunday Bada coming around the final curve and won going away . |
| 2 | Reynolds , sidelined for 2 years by a disputed doping suspension , made the most of his first appearance back on the world 's stage as he caught Nigerian , Sunday Bada , coming around the final curve . |
| 3 | Like most of his other work , his ‘ new man ’ is lost . |
| 4 | So too do most of his other notes and jottings and — more important — most of the substantial pieces of work that he wrote during this period . |
| 5 | Charles found a pied-à-terre in Ipswich and continued to keep his books and most of his other possessions in the flat at Cambridge . |
| 6 | Like most of his other supporters , the bishops associated with Mortimer were pardoned . |
| 7 | Most of his other property was left to John Williamson , who worked with Furber during his later years and took over the Kensington nursery , which was maintained by a succession of gardeners until the late 1840s . |
| 8 | It is unfashionable to point out that for most of his two decades in office Marcos enjoyed considerable grass-roots favour . |
| 9 | It was his first visit to Nijmegen and , although he had got his CMT 3 qualification , he had spent most of his two months at 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance checking equipment , putting up tents and doing guard duties . |
| 10 | Most of his many failures are , mercifully , long forgotten ; but one doomed scheme — to bring England her own silk industry — has left 20th-century cooks and gardeners a rich , if somewhat neglected , legacy . |
| 11 | His first , probably sound , instinct had been to keep most of his available troops to shield Edinburgh , while reinforcing Fort Augustus , the central point in ‘ the Chain' of three forts linked by the military road along the Great Glen . |
| 12 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 13 | Hence it is fairly clear that Cnut , who received the name Lambert at his baptism , was a Christian when he acquired the English throne , and the same was probably true of most of his major followers . |
| 14 | He is , however looking to improve his environment by joining most of his immediate colleagues in West Lothian ! |
| 15 | Montgomery had expected an air of authority from this venerable man , who had spent most of his seventy-odd years lecturing students , but Aubrey St John Goth seemed distant , distracted , his grey eyes veiled by a deep sadness . |
| 16 | In summary then , the method of control over businesses offering investment advice is one whereby Parliament through the Financial Services Act has delegated power to the Secretary of State who has in turn delegated most of his rule-making responsibilities to the SIB . |
| 17 | In the unpublished manuscript — a cluster of unorganised memories about Christmas ( and , incidentally , like most of his private jottings , more vivid than anything he published ) — he describes what became more and more the norm . |
| 18 | Astra 's former chairman , Gerald James , alleged in this column earlier this year that he and most of his fellow directors had been victimised and the firm sold off to protect dark secrets about arms for Iraq and a cosy monopoly relationship between British Aerospace and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 19 | Like most of his fellow Russians Berman is equipped with a rich singing tone , a fine instinct for rhetorical phrasing , and a gift for ‘ orchestrating ’ the texture . |
| 20 | Irwin succeeded in establishing his own , but not in destroying that of Gandhi , which acquired a greater effulgence every time — eight in all — he trudged down Lutyens ' great new processional way , opened with brilliant festivity just a week or so ago , carrying only a manila folder and his ever-present staff , to meet the lord of all the world that most of his fellow Indians knew . |
| 21 | If Damiani could go to Jaffa , most of his fellow exiles are prevented forever from walking in the streets outside their old houses — or knocking on those front doors . |
| 22 | Truong Chinh and most of his fellow prisoners were released . |
| 23 | You get the impression that Roberts could quite happily slag off most of his fellow ufologists in this way . |
| 24 | For the next eleven years , the country was under the effective control of the army , and as its commander-in-chief , Oliver Cromwell , and most of his fellow officers were far from convinced of the need for any state church , and firmly opposed to any compulsory religious system , Presbyterianism was consigned to a limited and localized presence . |
| 25 | His scathing attitude to most of his fellow pupils is only partly accounted for by a difference in age . |
| 26 | Having devoted most of his political life to touring constituencies and union branches , he has barely needed to campaign for the constituency section of the executive over the past two months . |
| 27 | As one with a consuming interest in spiritual matters for most of his 74 years , and with a great deal of experience of communicating with those who have ‘ passed over ’ , he presents an optimistic view which , he hopes , will appeal to the general public . |
| 28 | Most of his current responsibilities will fall to HP vice president Wim Roelandts , general manager of the Networked Systems Group . |
| 29 | Kinsey spent most of his early life studying the activities of the wasp . |
| 30 | Wordsworth later made changes in the text — as in most of his early poems — mainly to please Coleridge . |