Example sentences of "most [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People with interest-bearing deposits ( and , with inflation roaring away , no sensible person held cash ) now find most of what they used as ready money locked away . |
| 2 | The whole profession functions much as it does today , but with one crucial difference : most of what they believe is nonsense . |
| 3 | Most of what they do and others do to them is illegal , deceitful and untruthful . |
| 4 | Thompson encouraged acceptance of this compromise since in private talks with Sturge he became convinced that in return its critics would get most of what they wanted from the BFASS . |
| 5 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
| 6 | Or to make the most of what they had , while they could … |
| 7 | So long as the traveller historians and geographers , such as Herodotus and Pliny the Elder , Chau Ju-Kwa and Ibn Batuta , Friar Odoric and Marco Polo , are writing as eye-witness observers , most of what they report is entirely factual and authentic . |
| 8 | It is a bit like the well-known horde of monkeys hammering away on typewriters — most of what they write will be garbage , but very occasionally by pure chance they will type out one of Shakespeare 's sonnets . |
| 9 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 10 | In a few cases , staff and parents ' views were downright contradictory , for example , when asked if staff kept them fully informed about their child 's progress , a number of parents felt staff tended not to tell them about their child 's good points whereas staff said that most of what they said to parents was positive . |
| 11 | There is little doubt that the Serbs would want to retain most of what they now occupy , whereas the Croats would want to return to frontiers drawn up by the late Marshal Tito . |
| 12 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 13 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |
| 14 | Mr Chairman , I did n't get that last the last late one that most of what they 're saying is , comes under the authority of . |
| 15 | The Horbys themselves say they have to make the most of what they have with Leah . |
| 16 | ‘ Most people bought most of what they needed in the village . |
| 17 | Most Regions have got all or most of what they requested on their Annual Plans and in subsequent memos . |
| 18 | JAZZ DANCE has caught on slowly in this country , and most of what we see is attendant on musicals , cabaret acts or pop videos . |
| 19 | It was much deeper and bigger than most of what we pick up on screens , our primary source of entertainment today . |
| 20 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 21 | Unfortunately most of what we know about Coleman is related to the last decade or so of his life . |
| 22 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 23 | We do not know whether most of what we have observed in this field can be generalized to other fields or , indeed , to less intensively studied parts of the same field . |
| 24 | This is true , in particular , of most of what we call work . |
| 25 | This is very much in line with the evidence for repression in everyday life — while convincing anecdotal accounts certainly exist , as does some good experimental evidence for repression in the laboratory , the theory remains unconvincing as an explanation for most of what we forget . |
| 26 | But it is the Liber Censuum , compiled in the last quarter of the twelfth century and incorporating many of these earlier texts , by the papal chamberlain , Cencio Savelli — later to follow Innocent III as pope — that provides us with most of what we know about papal finance . |
| 27 | Most of what we throw away goes into holes in the ground . |
| 28 | I 'll try my best to respond to most of what we 've already heard this morning . |
| 29 | Most of what we know about echolocation comes from bats ( and human instruments ) , but it also occurs in a number of other unrelated groups of animals . |
| 30 | 4 Making the most of what it offers |