Example sentences of "most people [vb base] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people imagine that Queen 's View is named after ‘ unamused ’ Victoria , Scotland 's most famous royal tourist , but in fact the lady in question was Mary , Queen of Scots , who visited Tummel in 1564 , three years after her return from France . |
| 2 | Most people know that ! |
| 3 | Some solicitors may prefer the atmosphere of a relatively small company where most people know each other . |
| 4 | Most people know some dialect words : for example , bairn for child in Scottish English . |
| 5 | However , it is important to bear in mind that while most people break some , if not many , of the laws of their society , few people are found guilty of criminal offences . |
| 6 | Take bathtowels , drying up towels , pillowcases , handtowels , sheets and pillowcases and other bedlinen — most people prefer own for hygiene . |
| 7 | Most people inhabit this in-between land , perhaps not fully accepting the concept of reincarnation but none the less thinking that ‘ there must be something there ’ . |
| 8 | However , I appreciate that most people live some distance from the sea and these factors will need to be addressed immediately . |
| 9 | We have such a moral obligation ; most people believe that . |
| 10 | Anyone not a fool or a maniac should acknowledge Izzy 's ability to make this stuff work ; most people do this sort of thing very badly and so we call ‘ rock ’ inane and hopeless , but Stradlin brings verve and love to his work and the drooling beast is once more revivified . |
| 11 | Yes , interesting , I 'm going to tell him now , and that three sets , obviously you know , you can work that out in seconds flat , it will be bound to be how most people do this sort of thing , and when it 's their full-time job , Oh , right , just come out of there . |
| 12 | I I du n no I I I ca n't work out cos all of Dan 's girlfriends yeah Amber , Sonia and Honey most people have all said I do n't think she 's right for Dan and you know I ca n't I ca n't work out whether they actually think that or they 're just sort of saying that because he does n't talk to them as much or something , I do n't know . |
| 13 | Er , most people have that kind of anxiety dream . |
| 14 | Most people have little contact with mentally or physically handicapped people and , as we have discussed , base their attitudes and opinions on historically inaccurate concepts . |
| 15 | Most people have some fear of death . |
| 16 | Although most people have some background training in languages , it appears to be too little and , or , of the wrong type . |
| 17 | He says most people have some qualms . |
| 18 | Well that mostly you most people have this impression like that you do the er come away and then go back again . |
| 19 | That 's the that 's the most awkward thing to do the one that most people have most problem with . |
| 20 | Well actually most people have most people want them for souvenirs . |
| 21 | When writing a history essay , most people have more facts or knowledge available than they can conveniently use . |
| 22 | Now in Britain most people travel many kilometres between their homes and their work , often from one town to another . |
| 23 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 24 | Most people find such diagrams much easier to understand than paragraphs of explanatory prose but the flexibility itself can lead to the difficulties illustrated in Fig. 1.22 . |
| 25 | Most people run this stretch but we maintain our position by paddling . |
| 26 | I have heard many other definitions ( not all of them polite ) , but most people agree that advancement of some sort features in their long-term plans for the future . |
| 27 | ‘ The programme concentrates mainly on Hollywood movies , because they 're the ones most people see most of the time , ’ Wood says . |
| 28 | Freud was a Hobbesian thinker , erm , in the sense that the id , certainly was egoistic , anti-social and everything that Thomas Hobbes said about human nature , er , could apply to the id , that 's perfectly true , and most people see this , and it 's er it , it 's a commonplace , particularly in the social science writing on Freud . |
| 29 | Most most people play this er with a fairly conventional croquet stroke because the black ball 's the blue ball 's gon na go twice the distance of the red . |
| 30 | And yet most people give little thought to their use of the spoken word . |