Example sentences of "in most [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a truth not generally acknowledged ’ Burrows points out ‘ that in most discussions of works of English fiction , we proceed as if a third of our material were not really there . ’ |
| 2 | Responsibility is an aspect of autonomy to which lip-service is commonly paid but which takes a back seat in most discussions about children . |
| 3 | The value of professionality is that it focuses attention upon the activities of teachers in relation to pupils , each other and their organisations and it is thus a dynamic concept in opposition to the rather static ‘ characteristics ’ or ‘ descriptive ’ approach inherent in most studies of professionalism . |
| 4 | In most houses in Hackney , like anywhere else , the TV is never turned off . |
| 5 | We still have to travel in guards vans like parcels , and are denied mobility in most forms of transport . |
| 6 | Other Budget measures include an immediate 5 per cent rise in most duties on drink . |
| 7 | In a series of experiments , balloons inflated sequentially throughout the gut identified trigger points that reproduced the abdominal pain in most cases of IBS . |
| 8 | In most cases of detinue there would be a concurrent liability in conversion based upon a demand and refusal to return but as we have seen conversion required a positive act and had never lain where the defendant once had the plaintiff 's goods but was unable to return them because they had been lost or negligently destroyed . |
| 9 | It has the difference , if there is the implication , that in many perhaps in most cases of AIDS , it could have been avoided by , what used to be called clean living . |
| 10 | The problem of monopoly has been discussed elsewhere , in the general introduction and Chapter 4 by Krizner for example , and the solution adopted in most cases of privatization has been to place constraints upon the operation of these now private monopolies . |
| 11 | The elusive nature of the reactions seen in food intolerance makes it difficult to rule out this diagnosis without very thorough testing , and there seems to have been undue reliance on skin-prick tests in this study , despite the fact that these are unreliable indicators in most cases of food sensitivity . |
| 12 | In most cases of battery or actual bodily harm the causal connection will be plain , but cases involving drugs have presented difficulties . |
| 13 | Essentially , there is no real answer to this question because , in most cases of fraud , the transferor actually believes that the transferee is the person he is pretending to be . |
| 14 | Nuclear power production involves a series of steps comprising the processes of mining and milling of uranium , conversion to fuel material ( in most cases including enrichment in the isotope uranium-235 from about 0.7 per cent to 2–4 per cent ) , fabrication of fuel elements , utilization of the fuel in nuclear reactors , storage of the spent fuel , reprocessing of this fuel with a view to recycling , transportation of materials between various installations and disposal of radioactive waste ( figure 5.5 ) . |
| 15 | Such clauses are often fiercely resisted by the buyer , but in most cases without reason . |
| 16 | 266 which did not merit preservation by the fund have been demolished , hut in most cases without controversy . |
| 17 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 18 | 4 For five movements with more than one section but with only a single total timing ( nos. 3 , 4 , 6,15,18 ) , tempos of the different sections may be postulated by reference to tempo relationships in table 1 , themselves established in most cases by reference to the time-words found in the sources ( see also table 2 ) . |
| 19 | What is then ignored in most accounts of consumer capitalism is the way in which consuming can be an active as well as a passive choice , or in this context how people can use pop music . |
| 20 | We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture . |
| 21 | O. affinis is similar to O. vicarius Lyman , 1869 , from the West Indies but differs in the shape of the apical papilla which is simple blunt or slightly pointed in O. affinis as opposed to heart shaped in O. vicarius , though the occasional occurrence of heart shaped apical papillae in O. affinis throws doubt on the validity of this character , the degree to which the disk is constricted interradially , which is very pronounced in most specimens of O. affinis but not noticeably so in O. vicarius ; and the number of arm spines , 7–8 in O. affinis but as many as 10–12 O. vicarius . |
| 22 | In the wake of 5 October , NICRA mushroomed into a movement with branches in most towns in Northern Ireland in which there was a significant Catholic population . |
| 23 | The seventh all-union census was conducted in most areas between Jan. 12 and 19 , 1989 . |
| 24 | Hitherto , youth , unlike children , had been largely ignored but the events and trends that so characterized the decades circa 1880 and 1920 brought young workers firmly within the investigative framework of the social sciences as report after report vividly illustrated their significance in most areas of society . |
| 25 | In retrospect , it is clear that this preemptive strategy succeeded : in most areas of France , the transfer of power into the hands of the Gaullist state went relatively smoothly ; Vichy 's bureaucracy put up no substantial resistance to de Gaulle ; and the AMGOT threat was averted . |
| 26 | They are found in most areas of England , especially in the area between the Wash and Dorset and in Kent |
| 27 | Without such a capital gift , it is now impossible for many young people to make a first-time purchase in most areas of London and the South-East . |
| 28 | In most areas of life , he tries to practise what he preaches . |
| 29 | But this skill , along with accurate spelling , is essential in succeeding in most areas of life . |
| 30 | In most areas of life it would be not only wrong in principle but also futile and counter-productive for the court to adopt any different approach . |