Example sentences of "most [n mass] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That most folk want to hear . |
| 2 | It might seem odd to talk about entry halls as a postscript as it were but in practical terms most people put decorating their living rooms first . |
| 3 | For most people learning to SCAN requires some training and practice . |
| 4 | Teachers and teaching are subjects that most people claim to know something about , based on their own school experience . |
| 5 | Indeed most people wish to improve their own performance and are eager to do so . |
| 6 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 7 | Most people continued to go to the cinema occasionally , and about two-fifths of C2 and DE audiences in 1986 claimed feature films were their favourite TV programmes . |
| 8 | Most people try to do all they can to help and support their elderly parents and other relatives who live alone . |
| 9 | ‘ Most people try to kill themselves when they 're nineteen , ’ she 'd informed Preston . |
| 10 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 11 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 12 | Most people like to try and look after their horses themselves , often with some help from the livery yard owner or a friend who has different commitments . |
| 13 | Was Inspector Morse ( Ashenden pondered ) quite the man most people seemed to think he was ? |
| 14 | On walkabout in Swindon most people seemed to think so . |
| 15 | A century ago most people walked to work . |
| 16 | It 's a relaxed atmosphere here with most people preferring to laze around the complex in the heat of the day , but the beach is only 3000 metres away . |
| 17 | Although there was some variation , most people managed to answer about twelve of those questions correctly . |
| 18 | After a splendid dinner on Friday evening most people managed to find the bar . |
| 19 | However , most people aiming to shed surplus weight are also aiming to do so reasonably swiftly . |
| 20 | This came as something of a surprise since most people had assumed that SIB , as the recognising authority , was exercising some sort of supervisory control . |
| 21 | Later one of the teachers noticed that Stephen had written a short piece about the provision of gas masks that concluded : ‘ No real gas attack ever took place and so by the middle of 1940 most people had stopped carrying their masks . ’ |
| 22 | Most people had stayed on their feet , expectant and alert , and frankly curious to size up the laird 's domestic arrangements while they had the chance . |
| 23 | There were a few benches round the edge , but most people had to sit on their small bundles on the floor of the plane . |
| 24 | I was nine years old and this was the first foreign film I 'd seen ( probably the first most people had seen in East London ) . |
| 25 | It was the end of the afternoon , an east wind was chivvying its self-important way across the North Sea , the sun was losing its heat , and most people had gone home . |
| 26 | William gave up , but he tried it on his nan later , when most people had gone . |
| 27 | However , all the new occupants were faced with considerable expense in converting their areas of the building into habitable accommodation because each newly formed unit lacked even basic services provision , and by 1986 most people had spent an additional £55–60,000 on their conversion . |
| 28 | After an hour most people had left . |
| 29 | Most people had brought a packed lunch and this was eaten in the sun on Kidderminster Station platform . |
| 30 | Most people had thought Europe was the problem . |