Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike reckons that this part of Switzerland , which has been frequented by most top DJs , is one of dance music 's best-kept secrets . |
| 2 | Other refined carbohydrates , such as white flour and white rice , like sugar , have been stripped of most of their vitamins , minerals and fibre content and should be replaced with unrefined staple foods such as listed in the Personal Food Audit . |
| 3 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 4 | Wills , there has been no doubt of the widespread respect from all walks of life which has been earned by most Willses by the end of their lives . |
| 5 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 6 | Similar strategies have been pursued in most Western European and Australasian democracies for a longer period , notably in the UK , where limits on what parties can spend in local constituencies are remarkably stringent . |
| 7 | Facilities such as schools and health posts have been built in most such villages , but are said to be poorly stocked and staffed . |
| 8 | 4 million quid for a guy that almost went to jail and has been injured for most of the season |
| 9 | " It is harde to be expected " , wrote one newsletter writer , " with what great joy and satisfaction his majesties have been proclaimed in most of the Citties " , whilst the Earl of Peterborough thought that never had a King been " proclaimed with more applause than he that raignes under the name of James the Second " . |
| 10 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 11 | In fact that familiarity can sometimes be deceptive ; behind the restored classical vocabulary lurk more of the earlier aristocratic assumptions than would have been conceded by most nineteenth-century historians ; so if anthropological interpretations become less useful , there is still danger in pushing narrowly juridical ones . |
| 12 | And the more general view that the causes of crime are located in problems in early family relationships has , of course , been incorporated into most criminal jurisdictions . |
| 13 | The Act empowers the Secretary of State to make regulations requiring the tape-recording of interviews and orders have now been made in most regions requiring interviews in the interview room to be recorded . |
| 14 | There are several forms of management at all levels , each with its own characteristics and much has been written about most of them . |
| 15 | In the past , this has been seen as most relevant to men , although now that more women work in paid employment it is a problem for both sexes . |
| 16 | Even though the idea was firmly rejected , Pöhl was able to declare a month later that ‘ the German concept regarding the principles of a common European central bank has been accepted by most European governments ’ . |
| 17 | For unlike other supposed causal determinants of crime , mental disorder has been accepted by most criminal jurisdictions as taking away some of the fundamental elements that constitute an act as a crime . |
| 18 | Nearly one-third of domestic consumers in 1948 were on very high flat-rate tariffs designed for small users , but these were gradually induced by Area Boards to shift to ‘ two-part ’ or ‘ block ’ tariffs which had been adopted by most of the larger , progressive undertakings before nationalisation . |
| 19 | The Logger 's already been adopted by most private operators and the manufacturers hope it 'll eventually be used by Council and Government watchdogs as well . |
| 20 | The principle had been adopted in most , if not all , Commonwealth countries ; though in some it has now been modified or abandoned , either by statute or by judicial action . |
| 21 | The programme should have been broadcast for most of last month as well . |
| 22 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 23 | We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture . |
| 24 | In Section 8–2 , we outline the one-sector equilibrium growth model that has been used in most treatments of the dynamic effects of taxation . |
| 25 | Football has been transformed for most of those who follow it from a Saturday afternoon activity in all weathers to a Saturday night home entertainment . |
| 26 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 27 | Certainly , in its execution of the attack the Fifth Army had displayed a cumbersomeness and excess of caution that would never have been countenanced by most of Hitler 's captains . |
| 28 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 29 | Furthermore , since the Korean War , military expenditure has , by and large , been falling as a percentage of GDP and material living standards have been rising in most capitalist economies . |
| 30 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |