Example sentences of "most [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
2 | What most of the foregoing amounts to is that in the organization that switches its people on , the individual is king . |
3 | In most of the foregoing discussion we have assumed that the deformations which we have related to stresses have been carried out at constant temperature . |
4 | With respect to the question of the dating of the campaigns , however , the principal Arabic source , Ibn Hajar , writes in a different context that in Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 , the Ottoman ruler ( Mehmed I ) , alter having besieged Konya , seized Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and his son Mustafa and took possession of Konya , Kayseri , and most of the Karamanid lands . |
5 | In 1971 , only 19.8% of the inhabitants of Wales could speak the Welsh language ( down from 27.5% in 1951 ) and only 1.7% of Scots could speak Gaelic , most of the Gaelic speakers being concentrated in the Scottish highlands and islands . |
6 | There seems to be some justification for this since most of the contemporary debate has been concerned with accountability in a ‘ strict ’ or contractual sense . |
7 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
8 | The researchers estimated Diatryma 's athletic ability as quite adequate to catch most of the contemporary mammals . |
9 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
10 | Since eyesight requires that I do most of the close-up camera work , it fell to me to film the creature crawling slowly across Lorne 's fingers . |
11 | Similarly , most of the Peruvian anchovy catch is turned into fishmeal to feed chickens . |
12 | Like most of the Peruvian children I had seen , the toddler appeared self-sufficient already . |
13 | Most of the electrocardiographic changes seen were clinically not important . |
14 | Most of the spectral distribution is confined to the central maximum which has a positive upper frequency boundary of . |
15 | It is significant that the parties to the management agreement do not include the owners of most of the affected coastline : a family trust , the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers , and the owner of Marine Villa . |
16 | He 's Steve Coogan and he 's responsible for most of the male characters on Spitting Image — from Kinnock to Major , Prince Edward to Jeremy Paxman — as well as TV ad voice-overs for the likes of Bird 's Eye . |
17 | You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population . |
18 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
19 | In my spare bedroom , which was the size of a ballroom , I had installed a clever piece of apparatus which , despite its compact size , allowed me to exercise most of the essential muscles . |
20 | Most of the essential tools we use are decorative as well as functional . |
21 | Tax incentives removed for commercial forestry , but the Government failed to list Scotland 's Flow country under the World Heritage Convention , and rejected most of the 1987 NCC report , which was to ensure new forests did not harm wildlife . |
22 | On the basis of this analysis , most of the fifty linguists who participated in the debate could not subscribe to a straightforward conception of linguistic equality . |
23 | A lot of people involved , a number of ministers and most of the civil servants , were delightful people , very charming people , but they were n't trained to run an organisation . |
24 | However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 . |
25 | I think I 've used most of the hot water . |
26 | ‘ If concessions are n't made for those who live in the desert , the results would be economically disastrous ’ , says US Representative Jerry Lewis ( Republican , California ) , who represents most of the rural Mojave . |
27 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
28 | Since large plantations occupy the best agricultural land , most of the rural population cultivate small plots of less than 0.4 ha on the steep slopes of the mountainous central region where there are thin volcanic soils . |
29 | By the standards of some prisons in economically developed countries , Matagalpa prison was spartan and comfortless , but conditions seemed no worse than those faced by most of the rural population in Nicaragua . |
30 | So , for various different reasons , most of the Unionist leaders approved of Lloyd George 's intentions ; the party managers agreed because they feared that continuing disorganization on the Coalition Liberal side might eventually wreck the government . |