Example sentences of "in most [noun pl] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most cases it was a quarter or half acre plot for the house . |
| 2 | In most cases it was the type of land , climate and length of winter that dictated possible options to crop . |
| 3 | In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water . |
| 4 | The thesis would be pointless if most mistakes are jurisdictional or if in most cases it was particularly controversial and difficult to establish which are and which are not . |
| 5 | I argued that in most cases it was quite clear that the projects officers had not paid any serious attention to gender issues . |
| 6 | In most cases I was allowed to read the case file as well as to observe solicitor-client encounters and to attend court . |
| 7 | In most cases he was right . |
| 8 | In most competitions I was tense ; I was racing , I was aware of the opposition and what they were doing . |
| 9 | In most professions it was suicide to admit to being a homosexual , and in some macho jobs like bricklaying it was probably asking for a brick to be dropped upon one 's head . |
| 10 | In most respects it was human in shape , but gigantic in stature , and there seemed nothing of the human being in the way it suddenly paced forward from the trees . |
| 11 | But although Anselm was different in some ways , in most ways he was unaltered . |
| 12 | In most places they were very closely integrated with the ( newly-named ) Trading Standards Department . |