Example sentences of "most [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 're feeling peckish , well what do you enjoy most as a bit of a takeaway treat ? |
| 2 | Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA . |
| 3 | The American executive branch of the state is overwhelmingly staffed by the upper class ; Congress serves at most as a place in which dissident members of the upper class can air grievances . |
| 4 | It is in the USA that residential preference has been invoked most as an explanation for decentralization ( Berry 1976 ) , perhaps partly as a return to old ideas of the frontier and the rural idyll , as Champion ( 1987 ) suggests . |
| 5 | Rather , I have wanted to recover the history of each in relation to the other , finding in the process that Gide understood more than most about desire for the different , Fanon more than most about the ambivalence of difference itself . |
| 6 | Of the vast number of Ayrshire people who have emigrated to Canada , the man who was most successful financially was Robert Dunsmuir ( 1825–89 ) who went from Hurlford to Vancouver Island and amassed a fortune from coal mining and other businesses ( See Chapter 31 ) but the man who did most towards the advancement of the new country was John Galt ( See Chapter 9 ) . |
| 7 | Gary Hinchley was the first to show for Darlington , making the most of a mix-up in the home defence but blasting his early cross harmlessly into the crowd after five minutes . |
| 8 | After morning service , we would walk back to our bus stop through the Chater Gardens and enjoy the sight of hundreds of Chinese families relaxing together , eating picnics , taking photographs with fountains in the background , or watching goldfish in the pond ; and the happiness of the very many Filipinos making the most of a day of leisure . |
| 9 | This gave the Serbs control of most of a corridor across northern Bosnia linking Serbia proper with the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK — the Serb areas in Croatia ) and was rumoured to have been part of a deal with Croatia in exchange for the army 's withdrawal from Prevlaka [ see above ] . |
| 10 | The English had come to France encouraged to make the most of a lack of united opposition to them . |
| 11 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 12 | Make the most of a holiday to Australia , Switzerland or the Italian lakes by taking a twin centre holiday — see twice as much and enjoy the contrast between totally different resorts . |
| 13 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 14 | Last Tuesday , when the start of this match coincided with the end of a major international event ( won by Garry Kasparov ) in The Netherlands , one national paper devoted most of a page to chess coverage . |
| 15 | The girl threw caution to the wind and tried to make the most of every minute via sex , drink , numerous abortions , and late-night revels . |
| 16 | Its author , who may have written most of every entry between 991 and 1016 , has a distinctive and somewhat dramatic style , and knew a great deal . |
| 17 | I took great pleasure in travelling across the straits to Victoria to spend most of an afternoon with Emily at the old family house at 215 St Andrew Street . |
| 18 | where , as I think many people would say , most of the discrimination against them often comes from women themselves |
| 19 | There relative seclusion and indifference to most of the doings of the western powers continued to hold sway : this threw into sharper relief the completeness of the change in Russia . |
| 20 | However , probably his best performance was in the Hennessy Cognac Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown where he led for most of the trip before tiring and finishing fourth behind subsequent Cheltenham hero Jodami , Chatam and General Idea . |
| 21 | As most of the noise from an engine is from the fan this gives the impression that the engine has speeded up . |
| 22 | Later you should do most of the session in spikes . |
| 23 | THE stock market yesterday stayed a few points in positive territory for most of the session in advance of the Budget and as a wave of company results gave dealers plenty to digest . |
| 24 | The concomitant reduction in intestinal blood loss after metronidazole treatment suggests that most of the complications of the inflammation ( blood and protein loss , ileal dysfunction ) are a consequence of neutrophil activation . |
| 25 | Michele seemed aloof and oddly tense , saying little , leaving most of the talking to Didi and Luce . |
| 26 | Most of the silicon in these shipments will likely be 60MHz Pentiums , not the 66MHz parts Intel has been shooting for . |
| 27 | While most of the indices on which index futures are traded are arithmetic indices ( for example , S&P500 , NYSE and FT-SE 100 ) , from 1982 to 1988 futures on a geometric index , the VLCI , were traded on the Kansas City Board of Trade . |
| 28 | In the 1980s , under the Thatcher regime , most of the indices of social equality seemed to show that things were not improving . |
| 29 | Yes Chairer er I think Vince 's report is a very fair summary of the er the the issues which face us erm truth is , is what we 've been as in this proposed consortium which no doubt will go through with it 's most of the reforms of the N H S despite the er consultation mechanism which they 've gone through you know , but largely these are beforehand given the unaccountable of the N H S management ! |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I guess I agree with the committee 's original view that we should not put any major new investment in the UK , ’ Klepner replied , knowing full well that this line would be supported by Mueller and most of the Americans around the table . |