Example sentences of "to most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole . |
| 2 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 3 | The behaviour of some modern gliders during take-offs and landings is very different to most of the training gliders , and it is vital to understand why they are more prone to swinging . |
| 4 | This gave greater depth to most of the patterns , but often made the dancers appear earthbound . |
| 5 | Jackson already owns the rights to most of The Beatles ' songs and would , if successful , suddenly have shares in former label-mates Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
| 7 | Of particular concern to most of the members of the FFA was the effect of the drift-netters on the albacore tuna resource , which plays a major role in many Pacific economies . |
| 8 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 9 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 10 | Coromandel Travel ( 081–995 3642 ) tailor-makes packages to quieter resorts in Bali — and to most of the other Indonesian islands . |
| 11 | They owned a circus tent with its own seating and turned their hands to most of the acts , but have not been able to pay debts estimated at £60,000 or more . |
| 12 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 13 | While the space devoted to most of the individual poets in the earlier edition was sharply reduced , twenty-five of the thirty-three poems by Leapor were retained in 1775 . |
| 14 | Before the war , Lewes had been President of the Oxford University Boat Club , and was quiet and studious , in contrast to most of the young officers who had been with the Commandos . |
| 15 | By the end of the 1960s , most comprehensive schools were offering at least the core of a common curriculum to most of the pupils in Year One . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's usually bored before the box has left Yorkshire , ’ says Penny , who travels to most of the shows with him . |
| 17 | But in the hands of people who could not add two and two together , or calculate that the weekly instalments on the dining room suite , the washing machine , the television set , the refrigerator came to most of the whole weekly income , with little over for rent , food , clothes , and every other necessity , it was practically the root of all evil from which could grow debts , family quarrels , rent arrears , eviction and even worse disaster . |
| 18 | For example , children going to former white schools in Harare , now known as ‘ Group A ’ schools , are likely to get a far better education and have much better facilities than children going to most of the schools , known as ‘ Group B ’ schools , in the ‘ high density suburbs ’ ( formerly segregated black townships ) . |
| 19 | In contrast to most of the statutorily required information , the information produced by these ‘ commentators ’ , and the information from the players that they are not legally required to release , but have chosen to do so voluntarily , can appear in a large number of logical documentary formats : |
| 20 | With variations , this appears to be a model applicable to most of the prominent east-west trending Tertiary anticlines in southern England , as discussed by Stoneley ( 1982 ) , who linked their origin to plate tectonic events in the North Atlantic region . |
| 21 | Ramps and chair lifts provide access to most of the Museum . |
| 22 | Ramps and chair lifts provide access to most of the Museum . |
| 23 | Brittle Power is very much a continuation of the Lovins canon : the concerted challenge to most of the percepts apparently underlying current official thinking about energy — this time overturning the most ponderous applecart of all . |
| 24 | He quotes Occam 's razor but never dreams of applying it to most of the controversies he refers to , and , ironically over macroevolution , thinks that some of the recent speculations ‘ must inhibit the penchant for ‘ story-telling ’ and the glib explanation ’ , of the neo-Darwinists . |
| 25 | Without this redshift/distance relation , it would be possible to estimate reliably the distance to most of the galaxies we observe . |
| 26 | He was known to most of the crowd , having appeared at the famous Appleby Horse Fair as well as Lee Fair for many years . |
| 27 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 28 | Common to most of the new houses was their careful use of local materials , particularly in timber-framing . |
| 29 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 30 | The company reserves the right to veto or restrict the provision of additional facilities such as juke-boxes , fruit machines , pool tables , etc. , but does not specify from whom these must be hired or demand a proportion of the takings ( this attitude is in contrast to most of the national brewery companies and does something to explain why Palatine are regarded as good employers/landlords by their licensees ) . |