Example sentences of "most of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 2 | This figure might well have been aimed at ‘ warbird ’ restorers but the FW 189 is possibly too ‘ off beam ’ for the tastes of most of the established operator/restorers . |
| 3 | What most of the foregoing amounts to is that in the organization that switches its people on , the individual is king . |
| 4 | In most of the foregoing discussion we have assumed that the deformations which we have related to stresses have been carried out at constant temperature . |
| 5 | With respect to the question of the dating of the campaigns , however , the principal Arabic source , Ibn Hajar , writes in a different context that in Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 , the Ottoman ruler ( Mehmed I ) , alter having besieged Konya , seized Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and his son Mustafa and took possession of Konya , Kayseri , and most of the Karamanid lands . |
| 6 | In 1971 , only 19.8% of the inhabitants of Wales could speak the Welsh language ( down from 27.5% in 1951 ) and only 1.7% of Scots could speak Gaelic , most of the Gaelic speakers being concentrated in the Scottish highlands and islands . |
| 7 | The researchers estimated Diatryma 's athletic ability as quite adequate to catch most of the contemporary mammals . |
| 8 | There seems to be some justification for this since most of the contemporary debate has been concerned with accountability in a ‘ strict ’ or contractual sense . |
| 9 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 10 | The quantity , value and type of goods and services traditionally exported and imported by most of the contemporary rich nations , indeed , fell into fairly clear patterns . |
| 11 | By the late sixties most of the grand old names in shipbuilding were no more . |
| 12 | But there 's no mistaking Madge 's absolute technical control and his determination to make the most of the grand old man 's music . |
| 13 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 14 | Since eyesight requires that I do most of the close-up camera work , it fell to me to film the creature crawling slowly across Lorne 's fingers . |
| 15 | Similarly , most of the Peruvian anchovy catch is turned into fishmeal to feed chickens . |
| 16 | Like most of the Peruvian children I had seen , the toddler appeared self-sufficient already . |
| 17 | Most of the electrocardiographic changes seen were clinically not important . |
| 18 | Most of the spectral distribution is confined to the central maximum which has a positive upper frequency boundary of . |
| 19 | It is significant that the parties to the management agreement do not include the owners of most of the affected coastline : a family trust , the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers , and the owner of Marine Villa . |
| 20 | He 's Steve Coogan and he 's responsible for most of the male characters on Spitting Image — from Kinnock to Major , Prince Edward to Jeremy Paxman — as well as TV ad voice-overs for the likes of Bird 's Eye . |
| 21 | You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population . |
| 22 | Most of the essential tools we use are decorative as well as functional . |
| 23 | In my spare bedroom , which was the size of a ballroom , I had installed a clever piece of apparatus which , despite its compact size , allowed me to exercise most of the essential muscles . |
| 24 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 25 | A lot of people involved , a number of ministers and most of the civil servants , were delightful people , very charming people , but they were n't trained to run an organisation . |
| 26 | However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 . |
| 27 | I think I 've used most of the hot water . |
| 28 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
| 29 | Since large plantations occupy the best agricultural land , most of the rural population cultivate small plots of less than 0.4 ha on the steep slopes of the mountainous central region where there are thin volcanic soils . |
| 30 | By the standards of some prisons in economically developed countries , Matagalpa prison was spartan and comfortless , but conditions seemed no worse than those faced by most of the rural population in Nicaragua . |