Example sentences of "in most [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most European countries insider dealing has only just become an offence , thanks to a 1989 European Community directive . |
| 2 | In most southern counties wives earned increasingly poorly and casually from day work in agriculture , especially where arable farming was the dominant or developing form . |
| 3 | We will make the ( questionable ? ) assumption that in most other areas prices do not deviate too far from marginal cost , in which case marginal cost in this sector is a relevant ideal . |
| 4 | In most other respects Pateman 's WETUC role was a passive one . |
| 5 | Whereas in most Christian countries black is worn in mourning , in most Muslim ones white is the funeral colour , yet Christian and Muslim conceptions of the nature of the after-life and the significance of death are broadly the same . |
| 6 | There is a traditional image , outlined in most popular police histories , that the English policemen who served in the period from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries were recruited from artless agricultural labourers . |
| 7 | Whereas in most Christian countries black is worn in mourning , in most Muslim ones white is the funeral colour , yet Christian and Muslim conceptions of the nature of the after-life and the significance of death are broadly the same . |
| 8 | In most previous years clocks have changed at 2am , when clubs in the town would normally close anyway . |
| 9 | In most educational institutions teams are imbalanced ; if they are too large or too small they will be dysfunctional . |
| 10 | In most parliamentary democracies voter turnout tends to be around half to three-quarters of the electorate . |
| 11 | In most big cities advertisements for workers , from plumbers to car mechanics , go unanswered for weeks . |
| 12 | This is particularly important , and I 'm now riding my own hobby horse , but in the area of science erm we have a situation that erm in most secondary schools choice has to be made at the age of thirteen , fourteen , by boys and girls as to which subjects they should take . |