Example sentences of "most [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | County Council 's similarly encouraged by the widest support inclusion of the policy has elicited , as I say at least in principle Chairman , and most of the respondents to alteration number three . |
| 32 | Most of the brains of the organisation , or those academics who were able to pull Establishment strings and make the best of college connections , were billeted fairly comfortably near B.P. or had private transport , and were therefore able to take part in the social life that was organised for the community . |
| 33 | Unlike most of the blooms at Hampton Court , these were not grown by professionals . |
| 34 | Leeds noted that ‘ scoriae ’ , cinders , were to be found on most of the surfaces within sunken buildings at the settlement at Sutton Courtenay , suggesting to him that ‘ every man may have been his own smith ’ ( Leeds 1936 , p. 24 . |
| 35 | And when El-Jorr sent the bill to them , they , too , refused to pay , claiming that most of the charges on it were unauthorized . |
| 36 | He has confessed to most of the charges to court investigators and western reporters and maintains he was not coerced into admitting his guilt . |
| 37 | The convictions appeared to give new life to government efforts to combat corruption in the Chicago stock exchange following the failure in mid-1990 to secure convictions against three Swiss franc futures traders on most of the charges against them . |
| 38 | Most of the charges in both jurisdictions were relatively minor . |
| 39 | Although Mr Lamont has been staying in the Imperial Hotel with the rest of the Cabinet , he has held most of the talks in more down-market hotels along the Promenade . |
| 40 | One of the first problems faced by the Republic was that most of the colonies outside New England were loyal to the Stuart monarchs , and so in the early 1650s considerable effort had to be put into making them accept the new government . |
| 41 | Despite these encouraging developments ( see Potts 1987 for a brief overview ) most of the aspirations of the Warnock committee in recommending the under-fives as a priority area remain unfulfilled , and there is a dearth of data on the effectiveness of integrating children with special educational needs in the pre-school years ( McGlynn and Phillips 1987 ) . |
| 42 | Fortunately , most of the essays in Make It New were brought back into print in 1954 , when Eliot edited Literary Essays of Ezra Pound . |
| 43 | Aunt Bridget entertained most of the womenfolk of the village to another sit-down feast , and Polruan challenged Polperro to a hurling match " to the country " , the result of which was a draw . |
| 44 | In Britain most of the newspapers of the left and centre were critical . |
| 45 | The verbatim reports reached most of the newspapers in places such as Aberdeen at one o " clock in the morning of the 30th . " |
| 46 | From that year onward we two went through most of the stages into which the ordinary man 's love of Nature is divided . |
| 47 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 48 | Most of the houses outside towns might justly be described as ‘ peasant ’ accommodation , for Sussex is one of the few English counties where the term had a real and continued significance . |
| 49 | Most of the houses in the village itself were totally destroyed , and 3,000 people were killed . |
| 50 | The rents of most of the houses in Combsburgh vary from 1/ — to 1/6d per week . ’ |
| 51 | Most of the houses in the streets are villas — each one quite different from its neighbour and built with the warm golden limestone blocks that are typical of this part of the country |
| 52 | District councils at present will rarely be able to afford to replace such houses , and , if all or most of the houses in a small village are sold , then the council 's ability to meet housing need locally is effectively negated . |
| 53 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 54 | If you are doing , as I am , an investigation concerning housing most of the houses from the period I intend to study , are still standing today . |
| 55 | Most of the males in the audience had left school . |
| 56 | Well the fact that we had certainly at point six which is in the centre of the urban area which is where we clearly we 're mainly concerned about is where most of the accidents for example are happening . |
| 57 | Put it this way , M' lud : my client thinks that most of the values of the society in which he lives stink , and he hopes with this book to promote fornication , masturbation , adultery , the stoning of priests and , since we 've temporarily got your attention , M' lud , the suspension of corrupt judges by their earlobes . |
| 58 | The Labour Party promptly changed its position and in October 1974 ( when the SNP won eleven seats with 30 per cent of the Scottish vote ) promised to bring in legislative devolution setting up a Scottish Assembly with most of the functions of the secretary of state in the hands of a separate Scottish executive responsible to that Assembly . |
| 59 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 60 | I most grateful to the minister for giving way and it 's good to see the government er at last acknowledging the justice of the amendments to do exactly what we 're proposing now that we put in to most of the committees like the building societies c c c b b bill a and like the banking bill when they were discussing the nineteen eighties but Lord Justice Bingham also recommended er and I quote , the determination of the correct relationship between client , auditor and supervisor raises an issue of policy more appropriate for decision making by parliament than by the bank and the accounting profession . |