Example sentences of "most [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 2 | For most of them the ‘ arena , was formed just by swinging a huge articulated truck across one end of the street . |
| 3 | For most of them the beginning of grammar school represented a sharp break from the familiarities of the neighbourhood primary school . |
| 4 | Researches under the auspices of Britain 's Rare Breeds Survival Trust suggest that the indigenous breeds have not yet diverged enough from each other for a high frequency of chromosomal polymorphism to be established and in most of them the similarities far outweigh the differences . |
| 5 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 6 | Each addresses an individual prison and in most of them the author is either an ‘ outsider ’ or a foreigner , or both . |
| 7 | For most of them the railway symbolized dispossession and in some cases the collapse of their traditional economies . |
| 8 | For most of them the day 's duties were over . ’ |
| 9 | The inferences are systematic , they are decodable by different interpreters in the same way , and without most of them the exchange can not be understood ; most of them must therefore be part of what is communicated , in Grice 's strict sense of meant-nn . |
| 10 | The hall is surrounded by 30,000 people and for most of them the state housing and welfare system is a failure . |
| 11 | Many people find it hard to counter the argument of ‘ people before buildings ’ that the Church puts forward , even though for most of us the visible presence of a church — whether still in religious use or not — is an important and reassuring symbol of faith to all who pass by . |
| 12 | Many professional travellers say that there is nowhere left to travel , but for most of us the old maxim that anywhere is new if you have not been there before , is true , and there are plenty of places left to escape to . |
| 13 | For most of us the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the hardest challenges in a sport where yesterday was a long time ago . |
| 14 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 15 | To most of us the location of boundaries is self-evident but , surprisingly , boundaries of an object are far from obvious in the raw visual image which consists of a continuously varying distribution of light intensities across the retina . |
| 16 | For most of us the intervening year has added another milestone to the many we have already passed . |
| 17 | But for the last fifty years or so for most of us the experience of the church has been declined and closer and reducing number of people with dog collars . |