Example sentences of "most [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 2 | According to a Hungarian Radio broadcast of Sept. 27 , there were 16,000 foreigners officially employed in Hungary , most of them Romanian nationals . |
| 3 | Seven people , most of them young people and all from the Protestant community , were murdered , and murdered for exercising one of the most fundamental rights of all — the right to work . |
| 4 | Norton 's 13,000 shareholders , most of them private individuals who invested out of loyalty to the name and hope for its resurrection , are stuck : they can neither sell their shares nor can they vote on MacDonald 's tenure . |
| 5 | Virtually all the cathedral choirs whose recordings are known abroad are directed by former Oxbridge students of one kind or another , most of them former organ scholars . |
| 6 | Since all private truck owners are now allowed to bring food from Hiratan and sell it in Kabul , some militia commanders , most of them former mujahedin , are buying trucks and becoming traders . |
| 7 | Macdonell 's description of a village cricket match against a team of authors , most of them recognizable characters in Squire 's own team , ‘ The Invalids ’ , became required reading . |
| 8 | are few in number ( 84 , most of them Roman Catholic ) , and they arose from the government 's offer in 1936 to pay 50–75% of the cost of building new secondary schools . |
| 9 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 10 | " When the war came he had a fleet of eleven ships , most of them modern carriers of eight hundred to one thousand tons . |
| 11 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 12 | Most of them late arrivals back on board , suffering from too much sun or too much of the local wine . ’ |
| 13 | THREE thousand people , most of them innocent civilians , have been murdered in Ulster in the last 23 years … for nothing . |
| 14 | IN HIS letter ( HAS Jan 21 ) , K. Richardson says the Gulf War was senseless and that hundreds of thousands died , most of them innocent people . |
| 15 | A NIGERIAN Air Force plane crashed shortly after taking off from Lagos , killing all 163 on board — most of them military officers . |
| 16 | At its peak the Association had around 250 members , most of them full members resident in Lewis , but there was a small number of associate members who received reports but did not participate in their formulation . |
| 17 | In the next three days five other villages in north-east Armenia were attacked and at least 20 more hostages were taken , most of them Armenian policemen , but an attack on the village of Artzvashen was avoided when the 5,000 inhabitants complied with an ultimatum by troops surrounding the village to surrender weapons . |
| 18 | The MEI report added that about 1,000 people had arrived in Turkey ( most of them Iraqi citizens , probably Kurds ) , and about 7,700 in Iran , including 2,000 Sudanese . |
| 19 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 20 | In both the Lithuanian and Latvian capitals , Soviet forces seized key buildings and installations ; 19 people were killed , most of them Lithuanian civilians passively resisting Soviet tanks . |
| 21 | It emerged at the trial that 89 of the victims , most of them suspected members of Sendero Luminoso , had been shot in the head . |
| 22 | She had to search and destroy , scorch and defoliate , and she made the most of her one point of advantage , namely that I was a kept man . |
| 23 | We worked very hard , and most of us that season appeared in Oxford at least twice . |
| 24 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 25 | Today , most of us own machines which translate information from one form to another . |
| 26 | But he would be shocked and saddened by how utterly selfish most of us so-called Christians are at Christmas when there is so much hunger and grief in the world . |
| 27 | After all , learning suggests to most of us some degree of understanding , some conscious comprehension of the problem to be solved . |
| 28 | You said I 'd got to make the most of it this week end . |
| 29 | The Eastons restored the ornamental paintwork , most of it imitation brickwork painted over the actual brick , and in the case of the wall paintings , have reinstated the full scheme . |
| 30 | It 's to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers , but most of you this morning , feel that to pay the existing licence fee is far too much , so I 'd like to hear more views on that please , and also I 'd like to hear from Spurs fans especially , and football fans in general , your memories , your tributes to the late , great Danny Blanchflower . |