Example sentences of "most [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There relative seclusion and indifference to most of the doings of the western powers continued to hold sway : this threw into sharper relief the completeness of the change in Russia . |
| 2 | The concomitant reduction in intestinal blood loss after metronidazole treatment suggests that most of the complications of the inflammation ( blood and protein loss , ileal dysfunction ) are a consequence of neutrophil activation . |
| 3 | In the 1980s , under the Thatcher regime , most of the indices of social equality seemed to show that things were not improving . |
| 4 | Yes Chairer er I think Vince 's report is a very fair summary of the er the the issues which face us erm truth is , is what we 've been as in this proposed consortium which no doubt will go through with it 's most of the reforms of the N H S despite the er consultation mechanism which they 've gone through you know , but largely these are beforehand given the unaccountable of the N H S management ! |
| 5 | At the time of Pentecost they appear to have numbered around four thousand ( dependent on Josephus , Philo and Pliny ) and to have established communities in most of the villages of Palestine . |
| 6 | Aethelheard , abbot of Louth in Lindsey , who became archbishop of Canterbury in 792 , may have been seen in Kent as a ‘ symbol of Mercian rule ’ , but he appears to have obtained from Offa a confirmation of the immunity of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) 52 and he presided without Hygeberht over a synod at London attended by most of the bishops of southern England ( CS 265 : S 132 ) . |
| 7 | Most of the games of older children have some structure , and there is usually a scramble to be the ‘ good guy ’ . |
| 8 | If the penchant for story-telling and the glib explanation could be inhibited in most of the attackers of neo-Darwinism ( the uninhibited producers of Not So Stories ) , there would be less noise and more sense in the world , and his book not written . |
| 9 | Most of them were designed to make the most of the limitations of a character-based environment ; their procedures just do n't port easily into the Windows way of working . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In Britain most of the newspapers of the left and centre were critical . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Most of the opponents of enclosure at Nottingham were not , therefore , mere villains . |
| 17 | She remembered a phrase from her Irish history lessons in the convent school most of the girls of the Jewish community had attended . |
| 18 | The press release stated that most of the elements of a market-based economic system were in place in Laos . |
| 19 | The IMF in April 1991 approved a loan of SDR8,790,000 under a 1989 structural adjustment facility agreement ; commenting on the reform programme , the IMF stated that most of the elements of a market-based economic system were in place in Laos . |
| 20 | In most of the accounts of animal abuse , be they in factory farm or primate laboratory , even the more sensitive monkeys are portrayed in similar ways : comatose , agitated , even neurotic , often with serious injuries , but not necessarily in pain . |
| 21 | Er most of the accounts of what I 'm discussing er are pretty well near fiction . |
| 22 | At the same time most of the streets of the centre were cobbled . |
| 23 | if the themes of most of the sentences of a paragraph refer to one semantic field ( say location , parts of some object , wisdom vs chance , etc. ) then that semantic field will be perceived as the method of development of the paragraph . |
| 24 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 25 | And without deviating from truth or accuracy , you are telling it the way — and it is possible to do it , without deviating from truth and accuracy — because most of the trappings of the crap are ones that we impose upon ourselves . |
| 26 | ‘ My objection to Hill is that he is totally irrelevant to most of the things of value that the BBC does . |
| 27 | Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today . |
| 28 | Disengagement is just one of many social theories which underlie what Phillipson and Walker ( 1986 ) call ‘ Acquiescent Functionalism ’ — ‘ a body of thought about ageing which attributes the causes of most of the problems of old people to the natural consequences of physical decrescence and mental inflexibility or the failures of individual adjustment to ageing and retirement , instead of to contemporary developments of the state , the economy and social inequality ’ . |
| 29 | Most of the problems of the student will also be theirs : they are still on trial . |
| 30 | I also noticed a tendency to assume that by the twentieth century women had overcome most of the problems of inequality . |