Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great British public , most of whom would have been hard pressed to name three members of the Cabinet of this or any administration , were pre-occupied with chasing the sun in one of the rainiest summers in recent years and took the loss of a junior minister with equanimity . |
| 2 | They could be constructed by random surveys of a general practitioner 's practice population ( culturally valid ) , most of whom would have had personal experience of common conditions . |
| 3 | Thus two developments could threaten this society of thrifty peasants , most of whom could read and write : the division of holdings — a process that custom prevented in the Basque Provinces — and an assault on the commons that created and sustained the municipal community and the egalitarian society . |
| 4 | There is a captive audience , most of whom can understand the relevance of the message , and many are prepared to participate as they await their flight . |
| 5 | Although there is no animosity between the players , most of whom can see the benefits of joining forces , there remains a strong rivalry between those few people in either camp who have resisted amalgamation . |
| 6 | See most of them 'll come on video anyway . |
| 7 | Most of them would go for four or five months before any change of clothing reached them , not perhaps such a hardship as , without a change of clothes , Bernard Callinan found his irritating prickly-heat rash disappeared . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 9 | If it was a question that this vehicle was in that state when the sold it , then I would think that most of them would put that right themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 13 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 15 | Across the broad , still water of the moat stood at least a dozen mounted soldiers , more than enough to overcome the serfs , since most of them would have been at work in the fields . |
| 16 | But most of them would have a neck that was quite high ; modesty was getting to be a really important factor , so we 're covered from head to toe . |
| 17 | Did she say most of them would come down ? |
| 18 | If they are not athletically fit they may not be able to hunt for a while and this could be critical , as most of them must kill regularly to survive . |
| 19 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 20 | But most of them can take solace in that their performances are n't being reflected in the results of late . |
| 21 | Most of them will go : the communal celebration draws them , they need to gather together to bid farewell to the 1970s , they need to reinforce their own expectations by witnessing those of others , by observing who is in , who is out , who is up , who is down . |
| 22 | Although bureau primarily exist to simply output your files direct to bromide or film most of them will make sure that the output is what you were expecting before they send it back . |
| 23 | And , like , most of them will move on and that 's the end of it , but , like , you can get the real bad ones . |
| 24 | Most of them will give you a written quotation for their services , in advance , if you ask for one . |
| 25 | One of the teachers was saying that you give children pieces of paper to draw anything and most of them will draw a soldier carrying a gun or Caspers , or helicopters , something to do with war . |
| 26 | Do you think that maybe most of your fans are going through a phase , and that most of them will emerge the other end and leave you behind ? |
| 27 | ‘ Once we get people in a bookshop we can sell books to them , and most of them will buy more than one . ’ |
| 28 | Although many of the processes will be fairly tedious , most of them will require direct lexicographical involvement in some form , and a fair proportion will require that senior lexicographers perform the necessary manipulation of text . |
| 29 | Still most of them will have picked up a bob or two out of their transfers to Leeds . |
| 30 | Most of them will have to play in our remaining games . |