Example sentences of "be [verb] most of " in BNC.
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| 1 | to be drawing most of those people out . |
| 2 | Erm so that in fact a true alto would be using most of the notes there . |
| 3 | As might be expected most of the Palaeozoic gastropods belong to primitive groups : a few of these primitive snails survive today as inconspicuous members of the Recent fauna . |
| 4 | Although much of the fine detail can be seen most of the tissue of the leaf is destroyed . |
| 5 | For a patio to be used most of the year , the site must be sunny and sheltered form the wind . |
| 6 | Islamic Jihad , an underground faction of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization , was believed to be holding most of the Western hostages . |
| 7 | James Matthews , our reporter in Jordan says it appears the pro-Iranian group thought to be holding most of the hostages , Hezbalar is ready to end its demands for a prisoner exchange . |
| 8 | Yeah you 'll be getting most of those right and you wo n't have to learn sit up all night saying , Oh he 's given me another thirty five I E words to learn tonight . |
| 9 | Mr Slieman may still be spending most of his working day shuffling ever closer to Louise , unaware or uninterested in the magic he and his house create . |
| 10 | That evening Ted Hammond emerged from his house , wearing the old dressing-gown in which he seemed to be spending most of his time these days , and carrying a stiff drink . |
| 11 | A new category of institution , the polytechnic , would be created — mostly by mergers of existing colleges — to serve as the flagship of the public-sector fleet and in which would be concentrated most of the advanced work of that sector . |
| 12 | Readership was still small relative to the whole population , but among it were to be found most of those active in the leadership of TANU and other areas of African advancement . |
| 13 | Prepared jointly by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Works , with advice from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning on matters of site planning and layout , it was intended for the guidance of local authorities — who , it was presumed would be undertaking most of the post-war redevelopment . |
| 14 | Craig 's Vanguard Movement seemed to be making most of the running on the right wing of unionist politics and the DUP seemed to lack a clear policy direction . |
| 15 | By following a normal mixed 1,000 calorie diet of protein , fat and refined carbohydrate foods you will be making most of those calories available to your body . |
| 16 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 17 | The point is to upgrade such a machine you would be throwing most of it away and having to buy replacements for nearly everything . |
| 18 | Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others . |
| 19 | By the time it reached London , what seemed to be missing most of all was the play itself . |