Example sentences of "most [prep] the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashington can be seen to fit very neatly into Michael Chisholm 's model of ideal land use around a settlement ; indeed , most of the villages in south-east Somerset do ( Fig. 90 ) , as do many thousands across England . |
| 2 | Then again though i did miss most of the games in 91–92 , so maybe I 'm biased . |
| 3 | In this context , we now see the problems of systematics condensing around two major , interrelated questions , which form the two main themes running through most of the papers in this book . |
| 4 | As becomes clear from most of the papers in this collection , this particular view of human nature is not one shared by many other societies . |
| 5 | ‘ Traditional climatic geomorphology as represented by most of the papers in this volume has to a large extent glossed over this paucity of knowledge of fundamentals ; it may be said to have proceeded , like Davis 's work , to premature generalization on the basis of quite vague ideas on the underlying process relations . |
| 6 | This conservatism was arguably excessive , given the subsequent relatively trouble-free experience of most of the innovations in power station design which might realistically have been on the agenda at this time . |
| 7 | In place of his old magical rhetoric , the president quietly joined the rough popular outcry against the Lebanese traders who run most of the businesses in the country and who help most politicians with their private affairs . |
| 8 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
| 9 | But a simple squat can exercise most of the muscles in the body and yet keep it in perfect balance . |
| 10 | Most of the charges in both jurisdictions were relatively minor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fortunately , most of the essays in Make It New were brought back into print in 1954 , when Eliot edited Literary Essays of Ezra Pound . |
| 13 | The verbatim reports reached most of the newspapers in places such as Aberdeen at one o " clock in the morning of the 30th . " |
| 14 | Most of the houses in the village itself were totally destroyed , and 3,000 people were killed . |
| 15 | The rents of most of the houses in Combsburgh vary from 1/ — to 1/6d per week . ’ |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Most of the males in the audience had left school . |
| 20 | Most of the girls in my year , though not necessarily my friends , were leaving school at the end of the term . |
| 21 | Most of the girls in there were nice . |
| 22 | But when the nation was not at war the social round of the Fields was formidable Olive , it is said , eventually grew tired of Morris Grange so , in 1919 , Norman bought Lartington Hall with its 140 acres of parkland , 3 grouse moors , 3 lakes , 13 farms and most of the cottages in the village , and it became their principal residence for the rest of their lives . |
| 23 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 24 | Only recently vice-president Quayle remarked that most of the refugees in Hong Kong are political — which , as the Secretary of State will be aware , led to a halving of applications for voluntary repatriation . |
| 25 | Correspondingly most of the persons in a close network of relationships are of unequal rather than equal status . |
| 26 | Both of these would account for most of the variations in the different rates of fall . |
| 27 | In spite of this precaution , the speech came as a great shock to most of the officers in Algeria , indeed to the army as a whole . |
| 28 | Now most of the forms in this pack you can put in the storage binder because they 're going to be absolutely useless for you . |
| 29 | As you would expect , most of the routes in this area are in the 7a-plus league , including a quartet of 8a+ 's taking the hanging stalactites : Quart de Siécle , Maelstrom , Eau de Colonne and Pipe Line . |
| 30 | , I take the view that the A sixty four north eastern sector has higher landscape value that most of the others in fact all of the others . |