Example sentences of "most of [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 2 | For most of them the ‘ arena , was formed just by swinging a huge articulated truck across one end of the street . |
| 3 | For most of them the beginning of grammar school represented a sharp break from the familiarities of the neighbourhood primary school . |
| 4 | Researches under the auspices of Britain 's Rare Breeds Survival Trust suggest that the indigenous breeds have not yet diverged enough from each other for a high frequency of chromosomal polymorphism to be established and in most of them the similarities far outweigh the differences . |
| 5 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 6 | Each addresses an individual prison and in most of them the author is either an ‘ outsider ’ or a foreigner , or both . |
| 7 | For most of them the railway symbolized dispossession and in some cases the collapse of their traditional economies . |
| 8 | For most of them the day 's duties were over . ’ |
| 9 | The inferences are systematic , they are decodable by different interpreters in the same way , and without most of them the exchange can not be understood ; most of them must therefore be part of what is communicated , in Grice 's strict sense of meant-nn . |
| 10 | The hall is surrounded by 30,000 people and for most of them the state housing and welfare system is a failure . |
| 11 | He cheerfully gave his sanction to most of what the vicar did , the use of incense , the reservation of the sacrament , the wearing of vestments , the ringing of sanctuary bells , the veneration of the cross on Good Friday , the blessing of the palms on Palm Sunday , the blessing of a Paschal candle , and the pictures of the Stations of the Cross on the walls . |
| 12 | Once distant from the history , it is difficult to envisage just how powerful that central imperative was and how often the options available were so narrowly restricted as to exclude most of what the party was supposed to stand for . |
| 13 | Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it . |
| 14 | Third , and less depressing than the first two , Corinth is not completely excavated ( most of what the modern visitor sees is Roman ) and there is still hope that the classical agora may produce evidence of the kind we want ; though to get it , the excavators ( the American School in Athens ) will need permission to dig under the main square of the modern town . |
| 15 | We have marvellous architectural sculpture , tombstones , votive reliefs and other things which continued to be made in marble ; but most of what the Greeks themselves , and the Romans after them , considered the masterpieces of their sculptors are gone . |
| 16 | We already knew most of what the taxi driver told us . |
| 17 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 18 | Most of what the first Europeans saw as original vegetation in north-eastern North America was manipulated regrowth . |
| 19 | Many people find it hard to counter the argument of ‘ people before buildings ’ that the Church puts forward , even though for most of us the visible presence of a church — whether still in religious use or not — is an important and reassuring symbol of faith to all who pass by . |
| 20 | Many professional travellers say that there is nowhere left to travel , but for most of us the old maxim that anywhere is new if you have not been there before , is true , and there are plenty of places left to escape to . |
| 21 | For most of us the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the hardest challenges in a sport where yesterday was a long time ago . |
| 22 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 23 | To most of us the location of boundaries is self-evident but , surprisingly , boundaries of an object are far from obvious in the raw visual image which consists of a continuously varying distribution of light intensities across the retina . |
| 24 | For most of us the intervening year has added another milestone to the many we have already passed . |
| 25 | But for the last fifty years or so for most of us the experience of the church has been declined and closer and reducing number of people with dog collars . |