Example sentences of "most [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was inevitable , she supposed , when America was seen by most through a haze created by its films — the greatest publicity stunt ever . |
| 2 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 3 | She 's beautiful and cute and brighter than most for a five-year-old . ’ |
| 4 | Whom do I remember talking to most as a child ? |
| 5 | And if you 're feeling peckish , well what do you enjoy most as a bit of a takeaway treat ? |
| 6 | Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA . |
| 7 | The American executive branch of the state is overwhelmingly staffed by the upper class ; Congress serves at most as a place in which dissident members of the upper class can air grievances . |
| 8 | It is in the USA that residential preference has been invoked most as an explanation for decentralization ( Berry 1976 ) , perhaps partly as a return to old ideas of the frontier and the rural idyll , as Champion ( 1987 ) suggests . |
| 9 | Rather , I have wanted to recover the history of each in relation to the other , finding in the process that Gide understood more than most about desire for the different , Fanon more than most about the ambivalence of difference itself . |
| 10 | AS a shipbuilder , Hughie Gollogly knows more than most about the ebb and flow of the economic tide in Whitby . |
| 11 | Of the vast number of Ayrshire people who have emigrated to Canada , the man who was most successful financially was Robert Dunsmuir ( 1825–89 ) who went from Hurlford to Vancouver Island and amassed a fortune from coal mining and other businesses ( See Chapter 31 ) but the man who did most towards the advancement of the new country was John Galt ( See Chapter 9 ) . |
| 12 | Gary Hinchley was the first to show for Darlington , making the most of a mix-up in the home defence but blasting his early cross harmlessly into the crowd after five minutes . |
| 13 | Making the most of a buyer 's market , I asked dealers for their advice . |
| 14 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 15 | After morning service , we would walk back to our bus stop through the Chater Gardens and enjoy the sight of hundreds of Chinese families relaxing together , eating picnics , taking photographs with fountains in the background , or watching goldfish in the pond ; and the happiness of the very many Filipinos making the most of a day of leisure . |
| 16 | Two thousand points is the usual size for battles that will last an entire evening , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take most of a day to fight . |
| 17 | Richard Jones missed or failed to make th most of a couple . |
| 18 | This gave the Serbs control of most of a corridor across northern Bosnia linking Serbia proper with the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK — the Serb areas in Croatia ) and was rumoured to have been part of a deal with Croatia in exchange for the army 's withdrawal from Prevlaka [ see above ] . |
| 19 | The English had come to France encouraged to make the most of a lack of united opposition to them . |
| 20 | Most of a computer 's memory is RAM . |
| 21 | I missed most of a village , during the bit about the print-run , |
| 22 | Making the most of a walk-on role at the start of the campaign , Margaret Thatcher made many Tory candidates realise how much they missed her strong presence on the political stage . |
| 23 | His shoes were stout brown brogues , suitable for the tramping from place to place which takes up most of a detective 's time . |
| 24 | IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations . |
| 25 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 26 | Make the most of a holiday to Australia , Switzerland or the Italian lakes by taking a twin centre holiday — see twice as much and enjoy the contrast between totally different resorts . |
| 27 | The higher resorts in the Alps usually have good snow well into April and there is skiing throughout the summer on glaciers but summer skiing should be combined with other activities to make the most of a holiday . |
| 28 | In complete contrast , the hard-up Blues , who are now some £5m in the red , are failing to make the most of a sound defence because , as I have written repeatedly throughout the last 12 months , they are seriously short of creative ability in midfield . |
| 29 | Another newish rule forces most of a card 's receivables to be held by the issuing company , not its parent . |
| 30 | Sometimes , too , it might make sense to turn most of a ground or basement floor into an open-plan kitchen/living/family room/study . |