Example sentences of "and most [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first experience will probably take considerable planning and most of a term to carry out . |
| 2 | I avoided him instead , sometimes even for a day and most of an evening , until I was in the mood , strong enough , weak enough , who-knows-what-enough to take a sip of Francis . |
| 3 | The kitchen occupied the lower storey of the dwelling and most of the space in it was taken up by a lemon wood table and four rush-seated chairs decorated in traditional colours and floral patterns . |
| 4 | From the cockpit of a small white sloop — she was 35 feet long — the waves looked like hills coming up from behind , and most of the crew preferred not to glance at them … . |
| 5 | Large tarpaulins were pulled over the hold whenever it rained , and most of the crew slept in their shelter . |
| 6 | The establishments continued to handle much of the internal administration and most of the service functions . |
| 7 | To be sure , the majority of Americans are friendly , and most of the country pleasant to live in , but there are some very real problems . |
| 8 | Recent studies , however , have shown that many of them must be later than the landscapes and minor roads they cross ; in any case , they represent the motorways of the Roman period , and most of the country 's land communication network was probably still in the form of lanes and tracks , as it had been before and would be again ( Fig. go ) . |
| 9 | The party-controlled media of North Korea reported little of the 1989 reforms in Eastern Europe , and most of the country 's 1,700 students were withdrawn from Eastern bloc countries except the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The second is that of people , and they included Pope Paul himself and most of the Council fathers , who greatly welcomed what had been done and desired its effective implementation , but saw it as all in all a daring and radical reform which had gone beyond anything they sought when the Council began and which did not require significant further development . |
| 11 | Murtach and most of the company came in late that night , and by early the following afternoon they were preparing to go on their way again . |
| 12 | These include major operating companies , waste contracting , consulting and engineering companies , HMIP , WRc and most of the water plcs . |
| 13 | Jackie had no chance to give them his expert advice because the triangle sounded for the afternoon shift , and he was carried off by Biff to his office for the rest of the day and most of the night . |
| 14 | At first , when all the others went away I hated being alone ; and I watched the road all day and most of the night hoping that a car , anybody , would come over the hill from either direction . |
| 15 | The same pattern of events continued throughout Sunday evening and most of the night . |
| 16 | I was actually brought up by my Aunt Queen , along with her five children , because my mother was working all day and most of the night running the eel shops . |
| 17 | They 'd staked out Culley 's flat for half a day and most of the night . |
| 18 | ‘ It sleeps all day and most of the night . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It walks like that all day , sir , ’ whispered Poole , ‘ yes , and most of the night too . |
| 20 | They kept going all day and most of the night , passing the cathedral city of Melchester and reaching open land . |
| 21 | It was fairly quiet as by that time the workforce had arrived and started their day shift and most of the night shift had already left . |
| 22 | And most of the night . |
| 23 | Fox F M's weather — it 'll be a dry evening and most of the night , but towards morning rain will spread in to the Banbury area extending down to the Berkshire Downs on Wednesday morning . |
| 24 | The director , however , is Britain 's Mike Newell ( ‘ Dance With A Stranger ’ , ‘ The Good Father ’ ) , much of the crew is British and most of the budget has been supplied by Britain 's Channel 4 . |
| 25 | And most of the Terminator |
| 26 | Incidentally , he was n't known as Chief Education Officer , he was Secretary for Education , he only became Chief Education Officer after the war but erm he was the Controller of Shift E and most of the education staff were on Shift E. |
| 27 | He often worked late and most of the Lab staff knew that he proposed to do so last night . |
| 28 | The union already has 3,000 members in opted-out schools and most of the union will be in the sector if , as ministers expect , half of all secondary schools have become grant maintained by 1997 . |
| 29 | This is a matter of personal conscience and what every member in the council chamber today must be aware of , is that there is a vociferous and committed group of people we know that because we 've all had a great deal of communication from them and interestingly enough I have and most of the communication I 've had has been in favour so victory , people who write must be extremely perceptive in , with er marketing the that 's not the point , we all know that there is a committed and vociferous group of people whose consciences do not lead them to the same conclusions as Mr 's conscience and the issue really is , do we in a liberal and democratic society have the right to impose our consciences on those of other people who live in the community and quite clearly and quite determinedly take a different view . |
| 30 | Basic page printers such as the Hewlett Packard LaserJets , the Canon A1 and A2 and most of the Ricoh or Kyocera based models have no internal intelligence . |