Example sentences of "that [prep] most [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the European Commission has estimated that for most countries this budget accounts for between 10 and 20 per cent of GDP ( Evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities , 1987/8 HL 72 , p. 17 ) . |
| 2 | Information and theory is needed so that people may continue to be motivated , and so that occupations can give the meaningful career development that for most persons is still essential to feelings of self-worth . |
| 3 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 4 | It is central to his thinking that for most communities , each code has its own symbolic value in terms of " we " and " they " . |
| 5 | It will be appreciated that for most kinds of work and most working organisations it is not feasible to employ specialist ergonomists . |
| 6 | Such eclecticism fosters a false picture of criminal law and more seriously deflects criticism of the circumstance that for most individuals contact with the criminal law is contact with an objectivist regime of strictly liability . |
| 7 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 8 | However , it should be borne in mind that for most Marxists an interpretation of historical ( or dialectical ) materialism , which we have briefly discussed above , provides some degree of overarching methodological coherence to Marxism . |
| 9 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 10 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 11 | Part of the problem is that as most women who had attended single-sex schools had not known anything else , their comments will focus on the school itself rather than the fact of its being single-sex . |
| 12 | The arousal I 've always thought that er that you should n't be nervous but you always are but obviously as you 're nervous when you do a whole host of things and nerves as you become more skilled at it go away er and I 'd assume that like most things that the nerves will totally disappear and was somewhat surprised to find out that you 're always aroused |
| 13 | But this would itself be merely an instance of the general fact that with most sentences it is possible for two people to understand them but disagree about their truth . |
| 14 | Here it is envisaged that in most instances the conflict will be a simple one between the librarian 's obligations to his profession and public interest on the one hand , and the librarian 's obligations to his employer on the other hand . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a truth not generally acknowledged ’ Burrows points out ‘ that in most discussions of works of English fiction , we proceed as if a third of our material were not really there . ’ |
| 16 | As this medical view is based fundamentally on the gender identity and self-image of the transsexual , he implies that the law is prepared to concede that in most circumstances sex determination is a matter for the individual . |
| 17 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal thought that in most circumstances it would be reasonable to imply a term along the lines that an employer will not treat his employees ‘ arbitrarily , capriciously or inequitably ’ in matters of remuneration . |
| 18 | Logic suggests that in most circumstances the £100 man is most likely to be the squire of a village , a merchant in a town ; while men from £3 to £10 will almost all be small farmers and craftsmen . |
| 19 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 20 | Indeed , Marx argued that in most cases , because the social system is based on exploitation , people have to be consciously unaware of the basis of society if they are to continue working it . |
| 21 | It is clear that in most cases limited sanctions such as disapproval of a particular form of conduct can be most effective . |
| 22 | The difficulty in assessing this point is that in most cases the normal justification can not be established unless the putative authority enjoys some measure of recognition , and exercises power over its subjects . |
| 23 | The point I want to make is that in most cases they could not . |
| 24 | Because people seem either to write or commission reports at the slightest excuse you must assume that in most cases a formal , written report is not in fact wanted . |
| 25 | If then there is no adequate improvement in the attendance record , it is likely that in most cases the employer will be justified in treating the persistent absences as a sufficient reason for dismissing the employee . |
| 26 | The reader will appreciate that in most cases oil field development necessitates the use of external finance . |
| 27 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 28 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 29 | The reality is that in most cases it is hard to prove the cheque was issued ‘ knowingly ’ . |
| 30 | However , what has often gone unnoticed is that in most cases this does not happen and , even more interesting , in some the outcome is what has been called ‘ outstanding ’ ; that is to say , the individual turns out to be a highly competent and sometimes very creative adult . |