Example sentences of "most [noun pl] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | most times keep interfering all the time |
| 2 | ‘ The only way most clubs aim to boost revenue is through playing more matches or increasing its merchandising activities . |
| 3 | Most clubs do have strict rules . |
| 4 | Yet whatever the actual characteristics imputed to the mystical powers selected , seemingly arbitrary , for a given role , most religions appear to possess two complementary categories . |
| 5 | De Vries at least believed that there might be a struggle for existence between the mutated forms , but most geneticists refused to accept this compromise . |
| 6 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 7 | Most groups managed to raise a few hundred pounds in funds . |
| 8 | Most planets seemed to harbour biological flies . |
| 9 | Most flyers prefer to retain some gyro effect but this will normally be a lower value than in the purely hovering mode . |
| 10 | Overall the study considers that a low price is set on unfair deprivation of a job and that unfair dismissal compensation has little deterrent value for most employers wishing to dispense with the services of employees . |
| 11 | Today most employers prefer to pay their staff by cheque or by direct transfer to a bank account . |
| 12 | Most employers have required women to retire from their jobs at a ‘ normal ’ pensionable age of 60 , whereas a much greater number of men are permitted to remain until 65 , despite trends towards earlier retirement . |
| 13 | In making the choice between headhunting or in-house recruiting , it is clear that the crux of the matter is the level of appointment involved ; most employers do see a place for both methods . |
| 14 | what did fraud oh Freud believe that most sons wanted to do to their mothers ? |
| 15 | While some political scientists believe the ‘ yes ’ outcome is virtually certain , most experts had agreed the margin will tighten . |
| 16 | The gap was less than the £1 billion deficit which most experts had feared . |
| 17 | ‘ Since most experts seem to preclude a major upturn in energy prices before the end of the century , we may have to develop a combination of policies and taxes to stimulate the market for improvements in efficiency now as insurance against disruptions from climate change later . ’ |
| 18 | Most owner-managers expected to finance all or part of their purchases from within the firm . |
| 19 | Most dowsers have attempted to find the patterns of earth energies at a site and have detected spirals , concentric circles and straight or sinuous lines , all of which seem to vary over time . |
| 20 | Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering . |
| 21 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | Most researchers have concluded that the premorbid personality is characterised by substantial emotional instability . |
| 23 | Most researchers have focused on Creole use in Britain as an adolescent phenomenon , and there seems to be a general belief that use of Creole is negligible or non-existent before the age of 14 or so . |
| 24 | The SFO only becomes involved in cases where more than £1 million is involved , and most cases tend to come from the DTI . |
| 25 | In so far as a stranger , on a brief visit supported by senior officials from the area , could judge the pupils were happy , receiving a balanced education and in most cases planning to follow in the family footsteps . |
| 26 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 27 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 28 | What is more , a technical standard for representing letters which uses Bézier curves does not depend on any characteristic of the machine which is doing the printing : the same set of curves can be used to drive a professional typesetter or a cheap laser-printer ( though most fonts have to include ‘ hints ’ which help coarser machines interpret the curves ) . |
| 29 | In a study carried out of job interviews in America , it was discovered that most interviewers had made decisions about a candidate in the areas just mentioned within the first four minutes of the interview . |
| 30 | Most authorities have recognised that it is appropriate for the Compact Partnership to support co-directors — one second ed from Industry , one from Education . |