Example sentences of "most [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later you should do most of the session in spikes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most of the silicon in these shipments will likely be 60MHz Pentiums , not the 66MHz parts Intel has been shooting for . |
| 4 | Most of the discussion in the media was trivial , with much attention given to the list of authors for children 's reading , which excluded Enid Blyton and Captain W. E. Johns ( see chapter 6 on literature ) . |
| 5 | Most of the discussion in the following sections is taken from this article . |
| 6 | It was a cold , wet February ; and Branson spent most of the weekend in front of the blazing log fire , reading . |
| 7 | It is quantification that has produced most of the difficulty in the present case . |
| 8 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 9 | Most of the cholesterol in our blood is actually made by our liver and approximately one-third is derived from our diet . |
| 10 | It is often pointed out that the long-running set of victimization data in Britain , the General Household Survey 's regular measurement of the extent of burglary victimization since 1972 , indicates that most of the increase in recorded burglary is a reporting phenomenon . |
| 11 | His argument was that aggregate demand could best be stimulated through fiscal expansion , and that in the prevailing conditions most of the increase in national income would feed through into output and therefore employment rather than inflation . |
| 12 | Most of the increase in illegitimate births has been to women who are in some kind of informal union , not living on their own holding the baby . |
| 13 | Servicing of the foreign debt accounted for most of the increase in spending . |
| 14 | Most of the literature in the area of state control has assumed that marginal cost pricing ( with marginal cost at efficient levels ) is the objective . |
| 15 | Thus , the Act itself establishes only a skeleton structure for the national curriculum and its assessment , empowering the Secretary of State to decide most of the substance in subsequent Orders . |
| 16 | Most of the major off-licence chains are also owned by the brewers , though most of the expansion in this sector has been the result of the supermarkets ' willingness to compete with the established off-licences . |
| 17 | Similarly , Thatcher provides abundant evidence which shows that while most of the workers made redundant in the industrial sector were men , most of the expansion in the public services was in female employment . |
| 18 | The most famous and important health resort in Britain was undoubtedly Bath , but its late history is still far from certain since the earlier excavations removed most of the evidence in their large-scale clearance . |
| 19 | Most of the evidence in this area is American and it is contradictory . |
| 20 | Most of the uranium in the sandstone bedrock , however , had been transported laterally by water flow into an adjacent peat bog . |
| 21 | Most of the sediment in fact seems to be accumulating close inshore and very little gets to the outer shelf or the deeps . |
| 22 | ‘ We should be honest , and accept that most of the money in the sport comes either from TV directly , or as a result of television interest , which is mostly in track and field . |
| 23 | After selling part of his holding in Newmont , Sir James immediately re-invested most of the money in gold , in the form of call options . |
| 24 | As levels with ν > 0 are normally not significantly populated , these bands account for most of the intensity in an absorption spectrum . |
| 25 | The intestinal stages are susceptible to most of the anthelmintics in current use in pigs , and the majority of these , such as the benzimidazoles , dichlorvos , or tetramisole are given in the feed . |
| 26 | Nearly 17 per cent of Indians are in Birmingham and Coventry , with most of the rest in West Yorkshire , and the East Midlands . |
| 27 | Most of the sex in the original text survives but the producers are aware that fictional nipples are being counted by the kind of heaving bodies which consist of several men in suits . |
| 28 | Jed spent most of the afternoon in the parking-lot , wiring up the back seat . |
| 29 | They spent most of the afternoon in a poster shop , looking , then in a cafe . |
| 30 | ‘ But Mr Kronquist , as several of you already know , was assisting Mrs Sheila Williams during most of the afternoon in question with the temperamental kaleidoscope allocated to her for her illustrated talk on ‘ Alice ’ . |