Example sentences of "most [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | In the 1980s , under the Thatcher regime , most of the indices of social equality seemed to show that things were not improving . |
5 | 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 ! |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | At the time of Pentecost they appear to have numbered around four thousand ( dependent on Josephus , Philo and Pliny ) and to have established communities in most of the villages of Palestine . |
8 | Ashington can be seen to fit very neatly into Michael Chisholm 's model of ideal land use around a settlement ; indeed , most of the villages in south-east Somerset do ( Fig. 90 ) , as do many thousands across England . |
9 | Aethelheard , abbot of Louth in Lindsey , who became archbishop of Canterbury in 792 , may have been seen in Kent as a ‘ symbol of Mercian rule ’ , but he appears to have obtained from Offa a confirmation of the immunity of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) 52 and he presided without Hygeberht over a synod at London attended by most of the bishops of southern England ( CS 265 : S 132 ) . |
10 | You will already have considered most of the factors under ‘ operational implications ’ , but do n't forget that you need to allow for the tea , coffee and biscuits that the second conference will be consuming in substantial quantities . |
11 | Most of the games on the market would be more popular with boys , e.g. football , or science fiction adventure , and little effort has been made to provide games of more general interest . |
12 | Most of the games of older children have some structure , and there is usually a scramble to be the ‘ good guy ’ . |
13 | Then again though i did miss most of the games in 91–92 , so maybe I 'm biased . |
14 | In this context , we now see the problems of systematics condensing around two major , interrelated questions , which form the two main themes running through most of the papers in this book . |
15 | As becomes clear from most of the papers in this collection , this particular view of human nature is not one shared by many other societies . |
16 | ‘ Traditional climatic geomorphology as represented by most of the papers in this volume has to a large extent glossed over this paucity of knowledge of fundamentals ; it may be said to have proceeded , like Davis 's work , to premature generalization on the basis of quite vague ideas on the underlying process relations . |
17 | This conservatism was arguably excessive , given the subsequent relatively trouble-free experience of most of the innovations in power station design which might realistically have been on the agenda at this time . |
18 | This was the stratum of society from which Eadmer had come before the arrival of the Normans , and it almost certainly continued to provide most of the monks after the Conquest also . |
19 | If the penchant for story-telling and the glib explanation could be inhibited in most of the attackers of neo-Darwinism ( the uninhibited producers of Not So Stories ) , there would be less noise and more sense in the world , and his book not written . |
20 | In place of his old magical rhetoric , the president quietly joined the rough popular outcry against the Lebanese traders who run most of the businesses in the country and who help most politicians with their private affairs . |
21 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |
22 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
23 | Most of them were designed to make the most of the limitations of a character-based environment ; their procedures just do n't port easily into the Windows way of working . |
24 | ‘ He 's usually bored before the box has left Yorkshire , ’ says Penny , who travels to most of the shows with him . |
25 | Since the broad , ‘ genus ’ tort is a comparatively recent growth , most of the authorities on unlawful means concern the older , nominate wrongs so that the elements of the former are to some extend rationalisations from the latter and , as we have seen , there is a regrettable element of doubt as to whether ‘ unlawful means ’ bears the same meaning wherever it occurs . |
26 | The second is that his treatment of psychotic patients fulfils most of the criteria for an ideal milieu therapy . |
27 | The computer based analysis of bowel images described in this paper meets most of the criteria for an ideal activity marker activity in Crohn 's disease . |
28 | In summary , the computer based analysis of bowel images obtained from patients with Crohn 's disease meets most of the criteria for an ideal marker of disease activity . |
29 | But a simple squat can exercise most of the muscles in the body and yet keep it in perfect balance . |
30 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |