Example sentences of "most [n mass] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Paradoxically , since it is in relation to personal care that we see examples of highly committed one-way support , the research evidence suggests that most people do regard it as legitimate for the parties to consider their own interests in this situation , even if it is possible to push that too far .
2 It would be possible for officers ' secretaries to deal with external calls and most people do dial out direct anyway .
3 Most people do have some idea of whether or not one type of credit is ‘ expensive ’ , compared to other types of credit .
4 The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them .
5 In rich societies , on the other hand , most people do have enough discretionary income left ( or have easy access to credit ) after they have paid for their food and shelter , though the numbers who do not appear to be growing at an alarming rate in some rich countries ( as the growth of homelessness in the United States and the United Kingdom seems to suggest ) .
6 It tries to point out that it is a common , though devastating , experience ; that most people do survive it , but their lives are changed by it .
7 By now most people do know about the Book People , the Bread and Cheese People , the Plant , Stamp and Baking People , and the Carrying People even , but not everyone knows the full history of the Cave People as they have come to be called .
8 And in those days most people did have their children at home , did n't they ?
9 Well most people did have pianos and er practised .
10 Everybody sees a different picture and of course most people see do n't see it anyway because by the time they look and see what 's happened it 's already happened .
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