Example sentences of "most of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convicted prisoners are outnumbered by the euphemistically named ‘ undertrials ’ — remanded prisoners for most of whom trial is months ( if not years ) away and many of whom , detained pending police investigations , have not yet been charged with an offence ( Diaz 1977 ) . |
| 2 | Aye , and I have all me hair and most of me teeth and that 's more than many men ten years younger can boast of ! ’ |
| 3 | There is also an independent service with trained mediators , most of them solicitors . |
| 4 | Now , just try to do it in a room filled with ten people , most of them strangers , and a camera . |
| 5 | When the fighting began the UN had only 100 soldiers in the north , most of them signallers and engineers . |
| 6 | The proportion of the population over 60 rose to nearly 29 per cent by 1980 , most of them women . |
| 7 | The ruling means that a lot of people , most of them women , are unlikely to be compensated for serious psychological damage done to them at very young ages . ’ |
| 8 | Nearly 1,000 million adults in the world , most of them women , can neither read nor write , the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) said . |
| 9 | At least 35 people , most of them Moroccans , drowned in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sept. 26 while attempting to cross to Spain , and 38 others were arrested by the Civil Guard . |
| 10 | They came forward eagerly , offering what skills and abilities they had ; farmers , a conservation adviser , a photographer , a botanist , a medical practice manager ; most of them parents themselves , all of them becoming part of the support surrounding the South Ronaldsay families and determined to fight for them . |
| 11 | Berkeley took boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen , most of them boarders . |
| 12 | In 1882 a larger and at that time healthier site was purchased on Wandsworth Common , and the new school opened with 271 boys — most of them boarders , but 80 day-boys . |
| 13 | On Oct. 20 the PKK killed 19 bus passengers and wounded six near Solhan , and on Oct. 25 a PKK mine derailed a train in south-eastern Turkey , killing two and injuring 47 , most of them soldiers . |
| 14 | Tens of thousands of Popular Front supporters , most of them refugees from Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia , criticised the Azerbaijani CP leadership for acquiescing in the central Soviet authorities ' retaining responsibility for security in Nagorny Karabakh when the region had been restored to Azerbaijani control in November 1989 following 10 months of direct rule from Moscow [ see p. 37044 ] . |
| 15 | The Menwith Hill station employs over 1,200 staff , most of them Americans . |
| 16 | A UN " plan of action " drawn up in the week before the commencement of hostilities had estimated that more than 1,000,000 foreigners were still working in Iraq , most of them Egyptians , Sudanese and Palestinians . |
| 17 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 18 | Bonefish Straker was Thessalonians , father , and also father to two dozen other children , most of them orphans who had been unofficially adopted by Bonefish and his wife , Sarah . |
| 19 | During Jan. 13-15 , in a pogrom which reportedly surpassed in horror the massacre of Armenians in Sumgait in February 1988 [ see pp. 36034-35 ] , up to 60 people , most of them Armenians , were killed . |
| 20 | Coral reefs and atolls present a series of complex problems , involving ecological questions concerning the organisms involved , most of them species of coral , and geomorphological questions of the ultimate origin and present modification of these features . |
| 21 | The vote came just five days after the United Nations-appointed ‘ Truth Commission ’ report blamed the army for the vast majority of war crimes in a conflict that killed 75,000 people , most of them civilians . |
| 22 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
| 23 | Fourteen ninety nine Out of that it 's all bottles ey or most of them bottles . |
| 24 | A similar attack on a passenger train near the same town occurred on May 12 , when at least 40 people were killed , most of them miners returning from South Africa . |
| 25 | Croatian forces on Aug. 2 won back Kostajnica ( in the Banija region ) but lost the villages of Erdut , Dalj and and Aljmas near Osijek with about 80 people , most of them Croatians , being killed in the tank bombardment . |
| 26 | The Brits , most of them pensioners , were caught in a storm which is feared to have killed at least 45 people in southern France . |
| 27 | The attendance was 24,445 — most of them City fans . |
| 28 | The SABC board has a majority of Afrikaners among its members , most of them men , and only one black member . |
| 29 | We can even see pseudo-ethnic groups being invented for political purposes , as in the attempt by some of the British left to classify all third-world immigrants as ‘ black ’ in order to give them more leverage within the Labour Party for which most of them vote . |
| 30 | The farm sold most of them Safeways . |