Example sentences of "most [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rising and coloured River Tees below Croft meant a struggle for most during the Thornaby AA February Cup . |
| 2 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 3 | Rather , I have wanted to recover the history of each in relation to the other , finding in the process that Gide understood more than most about desire for the different , Fanon more than most about the ambivalence of difference itself . |
| 4 | AS a shipbuilder , Hughie Gollogly knows more than most about the ebb and flow of the economic tide in Whitby . |
| 5 | Hue and Cry are the most interesting of the new pop sophisticates , not so much because of the music , but because singer and lyricist Patrick Kane is an intellectual firebrand who 's more sussed than most about the contradictions and complexities of trying to infiltrate intelligence into the world of teenpop . |
| 6 | Of the vast number of Ayrshire people who have emigrated to Canada , the man who was most successful financially was Robert Dunsmuir ( 1825–89 ) who went from Hurlford to Vancouver Island and amassed a fortune from coal mining and other businesses ( See Chapter 31 ) but the man who did most towards the advancement of the new country was John Galt ( See Chapter 9 ) . |
| 7 | where , as I think many people would say , most of the discrimination against them often comes from women themselves |
| 8 | James Chaplin was born in 1886 , and during his early years at sea most of the craft were still under sail . |
| 9 | This established body provides training for most of the craft industries , offering over 200 subjects from hairdressing to engineering . |
| 10 | Most of the craft had been cannibalized and ripped apart . |
| 11 | Most of the views dealt with in the following sections have been influenced by Marxist or Weberian theories of stratification . |
| 12 | The problem is that while the species of ophiacanthids are generally well described , most of the genera and families are ill-defined . |
| 13 | Lydia was n't actually desperately hungry but she managed to eat most of the pheasant , making vulgar noises of gastronomic appreciation . |
| 14 | Most of the dressers were on a basic daily rate but some were paid on a measure of their work done . |
| 15 | There relative seclusion and indifference to most of the doings of the western powers continued to hold sway : this threw into sharper relief the completeness of the change in Russia . |
| 16 | In the air force the government held a three-to-two advantage , while sailors ’ mutinies brought most of the navy over to the Republican side . |
| 17 | When we opened the hall , most of the subscribers wanted to sit facing the conductor because from there they were able to follow all the developments of the performance much better . |
| 18 | Prince later wrote to Gould when he was in Australia , complaining that Alfred Newton had been ‘ far , far too complimentary ’ about Lear 's part in the publication , ‘ particularly when we know that most of the subscribers are of the opinion that his plates are almost the only exceptionable part of your work . ’ |
| 19 | It is only prudent with most of the Dale 's ‘ Wares tied up here at the fortress . |
| 20 | The dynamic of a small beginning , usually in Congress , creating a further set of demands for an expanded programme among inside players , especially from interest groups , applied across most of the ACLR case studies . |
| 21 | Most of the trip was on scheduled flights — all exactly on time ! |
| 22 | We had flown most of the trip alone , so one day was n't a big deal . |
| 23 | One bird had frustrated me for most of the trip . |
| 24 | Turns out — and I learned this not through Miguel but our second guide who has n't said much most of the trip — that thkarni is the Indians ' name — well , one of their many names , to be precise — for you-know-what . |
| 25 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 26 | However , probably his best performance was in the Hennessy Cognac Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown where he led for most of the trip before tiring and finishing fourth behind subsequent Cheltenham hero Jodami , Chatam and General Idea . |
| 27 | By this time most of the contracts were being negotiated by William James ( later Viscount ) Pirrie [ q.v. ] , who had become a partner in 1874 . |
| 28 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 29 | As most of the noise from an engine is from the fan this gives the impression that the engine has speeded up . |
| 30 | The official Leeds part of the ground was about a quarter of one stand , but as ever this was where most of the noise came from . |