Example sentences of "that in most [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The Employment Appeal Tribunal thought that in most circumstances it would be reasonable to imply a term along the lines that an employer will not treat his employees ‘ arbitrarily , capriciously or inequitably ’ in matters of remuneration .
2 The point I want to make is that in most cases they could not .
3 It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey .
4 Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification .
5 He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong .
6 When , however , in one district , private hospitals attempted to provide data they found that in most cases they could not identify patients ' districts of residence ( S Israel , personal communication ) .
7 Yet the Government 's own figures show that in most cases what has occurred is the creation of single-person businesses , that is self-employment by individual workers who do not employ any assistants as part of their business activities .
8 This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick .
9 The reality is that in most cases it is hard to prove the cheque was issued ‘ knowingly ’ .
10 I argued that in most cases it was quite clear that the projects officers had not paid any serious attention to gender issues .
11 However , from their polymerase chain reaction results , it seems that in most cases there is 1 fetal cell for every 10–10 maternal cells .
12 ‘ the encouraging fact is that in most areas there is capacity to allow both for the protection of the countryside and to build the number of houses we need .
13 Figure 4.5 illustrates horizontal segregation , showing that in most occupations there is either a clear majority of women or of men ; there are very few occupations in which there is an even proportion of men and women .
14 From this general , and somewhat-pessimistic picture it is necessary to assert that in most regions there are quite distinct potentials for growth , but some of these are more easy to exploit than others , even given sufficient investment and other inputs .
15 The major difficulty with them is that in most contexts it is not in general possible on theoretical grounds alone to exclude the influence of one variable on another .
16 This view could be called cynical , but my experience leads me to believe that in most situations we are preoccupied with ourselves and our own agendas .
17 This makes us feel very feeble , as we have friends of our age who think nothing of motoring from here to Lowestoft in the day — but such feats are not for us , though we flatter ourselves that in most respects we are in pretty good nick .
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