Example sentences of "most of [art] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 2 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 3 | He thinks most of the things other boys wear look stupid . |
| 4 | The classic remark came from Abrams at the public hearings : ‘ I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I had no idea about . ’ |
| 5 | Frankly , I hurled most of the things out . |
| 6 | It is unlikely , however , that a single S-R bond can be found in human learning , as most of the things we teach involve complex sequences or chains of responses . |
| 7 | They seem deaf to any plea that most of the things designed to improve the quality of life involve an element of risk . |
| 8 | Tolkien himself insisted that he had not intended one ; and finding one need not be the ultimate necessity for the critic , since after all political messages add nothing to Tom Bombadil , or the Ents , or the Riders of Rohan , or the entrelacements , or most of the things discussed in this chapter and the ones around it . |
| 9 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 10 | The problem is that most of the things that sociologists are interested in are abstract . |
| 11 | THE soldiers of Switzerland usually get most of the things they want . |
| 12 | Most of what local authorities do is in a sense not really party politically controversial because they 've got because most of the things they do they 've got to do , they 're mandated to do . |
| 13 | most of the things that I 've done have been on Atlantic salmon and you put in Atlantic salmon and you get seven thousand eight hundred |
| 14 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 15 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 16 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 17 | ‘ My objection to Hill is that he is totally irrelevant to most of the things of value that the BBC does . |
| 18 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
| 19 | Cos it , most of the things got lost during the war , you know ? |
| 20 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 21 | You work and scrape your way into the big time , you achieve most of the things you want — houses , cars , gorgeous wife , foreign travel , all the things you dreamed of when you were a grubby kid — and then , when you settle back to enjoy them , it all goes wrong . ’ |
| 22 | Oh yes , most of the things we 'd have done the work ourself . |
| 23 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 24 | Most of the things I enjoy do n't cost very much . ’ |
| 25 | On the doubtful side of this line come most of the things which people care most about — matters associated with personal relationships , the arts , moral issues and religion . |
| 26 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 27 | So it 's in the Fire Service that we 've actually got time posted , and in fact most of the things that we wish to charge for we 're actually statutorily prohibited from doing . |
| 28 | erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost . |
| 29 | We know some of the things , er most of the things , in fact , that we need to do to think in terms of consideration . |
| 30 | ‘ I go to many stately homes and museums but the library is what really supplies me with most of the things I get , ’ said Mrs Lamport , who started with the Dictionary of National Biography , Burke 's Peerage , and other books on notable families . |