Example sentences of "in most [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional task forces estimate , however , that the gap between the hours stipulated in most juniors ' contracts and the hours that they will actually work is about five to 10 hours a week . |
| 2 | What the bland uniformity of the final bestseller lists ( see opposite ) fails to reveal are the intriguing regional variations that could be found in most respondents ' submissions . |
| 3 | Three rewards that operate in most adults ' lives include : |
| 4 | In most managers ' minds , these worries are linked . |
| 5 | Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ? |
| 6 | And being a wife/partner is a much higher priority in most women 's lives ( 81% ) than being a mother ( 69% ) or a wage earner ( 47% ) . |
| 7 | The exhibition , curated by Joan Solomon and Sue Isherwood , highlights the first and most significant relationship in most women 's lives ( until 22 Mar ) . |
| 8 | envy , not pity , in most women 's eyes . |
| 9 | The phenomenon drew comment from nearly all the booksellers taking part in the survey , looming larger in most booksellers ' experience than the formerly familiar threat of expansion by the chains ( although the latter phenomenon has obviously not disappeared , with Jarrolds , in particular , awaiting the arrival of a 10,000 sq ft Dillons store in Norwich with a certain apprehension ) . |
| 10 | As in most Children 's Film Foundation productions , there was an established ‘ grown-up ’ character actor . |
| 11 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 12 | GREASY burgers , fatty chips and sticky sweets all get the thumbs down in most children 's diets these days . |
| 13 | Secondly , and far more important , the main factor in most men 's standard of living was not what they could earn but what they could produce , and here conditions were dominated not by economic relationships with other men but by something far more basic , the annual and unpredictable variations in the weather and the effects which this would have on the harvest . |
| 14 | If a distinction between laws — the law of the State and the law of the Church — was blurred in most men 's minds , the distinction between the clergy and the laity was not . |
| 15 | The hopes , since they involve imagination and courage , are less vivid in most men 's minds . |