Example sentences of "most of [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the air force the government held a three-to-two advantage , while sailors ’ mutinies brought most of the navy over to the Republican side . |
| 2 | Most of the swing back to the government occurred during the winter of 1986–7 and there was relatively little swing in the last few months before the election . |
| 3 | We took his four- poster bed down that he wanted taking down that he cherished for some peculiar reason , and then we moved all the other bits of furniture , and as we w were sort of getting most of the furniture out of the first bedroom he said Do n't forget the loft will you ? |
| 4 | In keeping with the curious mixture of house-made talents and lethal weaponry which is the hallmark of South African police operations , Coetzee carried most of the stuff around in the boot of his car . |
| 5 | They had gas heating installed , and claimed most of the cost back from the communal housing authorities . |
| 6 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 7 | On the left of the waterfall , most of the way up , are wet boggy areas full of bright green sphagnum moss . |
| 8 | The central reception area was red-tiled , walled most of the way up also in dried-blood-red tiles , high windows way above eyes . |
| 9 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 10 | This will drive most of the air out of the growing medium and prevent clouds of bubbles and associated debris from being released into the pool . |
| 11 | Sell most of the population off as slaves ? ’ she recalled with a grimace . |
| 12 | Regular forecasts by meteorologists on TV have taken most of the mystery out of isobars these days , so it should be easy to understand how , when the isobar lines are drawn close together , strong winds can be expected . |
| 13 | For most of the period up to the beginning of the Second World War , labour was plentiful and unemployment rates varied from moderate to the very high rates of the depression . |
| 14 | It was the latter 's religious and political disaffection which took most of the county over to Parliament in the Civil Wars . |