Example sentences of "most people [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brief counselling is at least as effective as medication in most people facing such problems ( Catalan et al. 1984 a ) . |
| 2 | Most people accepted more money needed to be spent on the railways with extra staff to keep them going , he said . |
| 3 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 4 | Most people imagine that Queen 's View is named after ‘ unamused ’ Victoria , Scotland 's most famous royal tourist , but in fact the lady in question was Mary , Queen of Scots , who visited Tummel in 1564 , three years after her return from France . |
| 5 | Some solicitors may prefer the atmosphere of a relatively small company where most people know each other . |
| 6 | Most people know some dialect words : for example , bairn for child in Scottish English . |
| 7 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 8 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 9 | However , I appreciate that most people live some distance from the sea and these factors will need to be addressed immediately . |
| 10 | Anyone not a fool or a maniac should acknowledge Izzy 's ability to make this stuff work ; most people do this sort of thing very badly and so we call ‘ rock ’ inane and hopeless , but Stradlin brings verve and love to his work and the drooling beast is once more revivified . |
| 11 | Yes , interesting , I 'm going to tell him now , and that three sets , obviously you know , you can work that out in seconds flat , it will be bound to be how most people do this sort of thing , and when it 's their full-time job , Oh , right , just come out of there . |
| 12 | Er , most people have that kind of anxiety dream . |
| 13 | Most people have little contact with mentally or physically handicapped people and , as we have discussed , base their attitudes and opinions on historically inaccurate concepts . |
| 14 | He says most people have some qualms . |
| 15 | Most people have some fear of death . |
| 16 | Although most people have some background training in languages , it appears to be too little and , or , of the wrong type . |
| 17 | Well that mostly you most people have this impression like that you do the er come away and then go back again . |
| 18 | That 's the that 's the most awkward thing to do the one that most people have most problem with . |
| 19 | Well actually most people have most people want them for souvenirs . |
| 20 | When writing a history essay , most people have more facts or knowledge available than they can conveniently use . |
| 21 | Now in Britain most people travel many kilometres between their homes and their work , often from one town to another . |
| 22 | Most people find such diagrams much easier to understand than paragraphs of explanatory prose but the flexibility itself can lead to the difficulties illustrated in Fig. 1.22 . |
| 23 | Most people run this stretch but we maintain our position by paddling . |
| 24 | I have heard many other definitions ( not all of them polite ) , but most people agree that advancement of some sort features in their long-term plans for the future . |
| 25 | And yet most people give little thought to their use of the spoken word . |
| 26 | Most people want many sons because they carry on the family line and that means our clan can claim more land . |