Example sentences of "most of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 2 | What most of the foregoing amounts to is that in the organization that switches its people on , the individual is king . |
| 3 | With respect to the question of the dating of the campaigns , however , the principal Arabic source , Ibn Hajar , writes in a different context that in Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 , the Ottoman ruler ( Mehmed I ) , alter having besieged Konya , seized Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and his son Mustafa and took possession of Konya , Kayseri , and most of the Karamanid lands . |
| 4 | In 1971 , only 19.8% of the inhabitants of Wales could speak the Welsh language ( down from 27.5% in 1951 ) and only 1.7% of Scots could speak Gaelic , most of the Gaelic speakers being concentrated in the Scottish highlands and islands . |
| 5 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 6 | The researchers estimated Diatryma 's athletic ability as quite adequate to catch most of the contemporary mammals . |
| 7 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 8 | Like most of the Peruvian children I had seen , the toddler appeared self-sufficient already . |
| 9 | Most of the electrocardiographic changes seen were clinically not important . |
| 10 | He 's Steve Coogan and he 's responsible for most of the male characters on Spitting Image — from Kinnock to Major , Prince Edward to Jeremy Paxman — as well as TV ad voice-overs for the likes of Bird 's Eye . |
| 11 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 12 | In my spare bedroom , which was the size of a ballroom , I had installed a clever piece of apparatus which , despite its compact size , allowed me to exercise most of the essential muscles . |
| 13 | Most of the essential tools we use are decorative as well as functional . |
| 14 | On the basis of this analysis , most of the fifty linguists who participated in the debate could not subscribe to a straightforward conception of linguistic equality . |
| 15 | A lot of people involved , a number of ministers and most of the civil servants , were delightful people , very charming people , but they were n't trained to run an organisation . |
| 16 | However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 . |
| 17 | So , for various different reasons , most of the Unionist leaders approved of Lloyd George 's intentions ; the party managers agreed because they feared that continuing disorganization on the Coalition Liberal side might eventually wreck the government . |
| 18 | Most of the potent drugs obtained from plants are known to act on specific physiological systems . |
| 19 | Most of the outside organisations he is involved with are based in the Midlands . |
| 20 | And with the police and most of the armed forces behind me , I was able to stop Ngune from seizing power . |
| 21 | It was not under sail , as I would have preferred , but the next best thing , and in this boat we explored most of the Outer Isles from North Rona to Barra Head , and the mainland coast between Lochinver and Oban . |
| 22 | The right swept the election but most of the appointed members were moderates and leftists so as to redress the balance . |
| 23 | In Costa Rica , 333 of the approximately 400 tree species at La Selva were examined and 65.5% were found to be hermaphroditic , 11.4% monoecious and 23.1% dioecious ; of 28 species examined in detail , 24 showed self-incompatibility , either in the stigma or style in distylous species , in the ovary in most of the monomorphic ones . |
| 24 | The other moments I will treasure were the near-perfect serving of Michael Stich in his first Wimbledon final against Boris Becker , which puts a new and totally unexpected name on that historic trophy ; the charmless street-fighter qualities of Monica Seles which nevertheless took her to the number one spot in the world while showing total contempt for most of the accepted standards of behaviour that should belong to a champion ; and finally the conversion of Andre Agassi from teenage rebel to near-establishment idol at Wimbledon , where he appeared in shining white and won the hearts not only of his adoring army of fans , but also of most of the middle-age traditionalists . |
| 25 | Most of the following communities are not actually recorded for the Outer Hebrides in the NVC ( unless explicitly stated ) but might well occur . |
| 26 | With the retirement of Lord Denning , it seems that the issue has been laid to rest for some time , since his successor , Lord Donaldson , and most of the current Lords Justices of Appeal do not appear to share the views of the former Master of the Rolls . |
| 27 | As I do n't know most of the current players ( living in the US for 6 years does that ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ) |
| 28 | The middle ground , within which lie most of the current concerns of social anthropology , was increasingly ignored , as far as consideration of the social use of objects is concerned . |
| 29 | Efforts continued to establish a harmonization of European accounting practices , in accordance with the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives ( 1978 and 1983 respectively ) , the first of which had created the Contact Committee of officials , the standards body which had originated most of the current proposals ( but which was still not recognized by many EC members ) , while the second had included measures to standardize the presentation of consolidated accounts within the EC ( see p. 36154 for earlier developments ) . |
| 30 | Most of the current partnerships in further and higher education ( FHE ) are of this nature , even if the inter-relationships of the parties are complicated , even complex , because the employer contribution usually relates to the financial state of the firm and this may change abruptly . |