Example sentences of "and for most " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for most pensioners , even those with supplementary pensions or savings , the state pension is their financial lifeline . |
| 2 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 3 | In that decade European men won almost a quarter of the 40 major championships played and for most of it dominated the top ten in the world rankings . |
| 4 | But even in murder cases it is now far more favourable to the accused for him to plead instead diminished responsibility , and for most practical purposes this defence has replaced that of insanity in criminal law . |
| 5 | For her , and for most other Tories , the principal justification is power . |
| 6 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 7 | Typically stockinette is used as a dishcloth and for most general cleaning purposes . |
| 8 | Comparatively speaking the level of oil dependence is low , at 42% in 1983 but the picture is distorted by the high level of coal consumption in South Africa ( one of the largest energy consumers ) and for most countries oil dependence is high . |
| 9 | With the exception of teaching and nursing , these jobs require little specialised training , and for most a good physical appearance is a distinct advantage . |
| 10 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
| 11 | At low tide the bed of the estuary was mainly hard packed sand which stretched for miles , up and downstream , and for most of its mile width . |
| 12 | ‘ Our outward appearance undoubtedly alters as we get older and for most people the condition of the skin and hair is the final arbiter of age . ’ |
| 13 | She was n't twenty-one any more , and for most of us that is a terrible hardship … |
| 14 | Buoyed by this , the 'Mere forwards rallied and for most of the remainder of the half they at least managed to hold their own ball in the scrum . |
| 15 | I watched both them and Mathews closely throughout both days while he was giving evidence , and for most of the time all three of the judges had their heads and eyes down on the notes they were keeping . ’ |
| 16 | As a baby I was fractious and for most of my childhood I was exuberant , passionate and hyperactive . |
| 17 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 18 | Green and black mambas are among the most venomous snakes in the world ; and for most people , snakes , of all animals , have the most sinister reputation . |
| 19 | These two very distinct areas of work proved compatible largely because the basic skills of writing are the same for most people and for most purposes . |
| 20 | It is important that the temperature is stable , certainly for all marines and for most tropicals . |
| 21 | So in the case of all who die intestate , and for most of the rather small number who make a will , the outcome of inheritance will be that relatives are beneficiaries , and the legal procedures which ensure this codify a set of obligations to give support which discriminates between close and more distant kin . |
| 22 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 23 | Like all models of knowledge , he suggests , history requires a code to analyse its object , and for most historians this code consists in chronology . |
| 24 | I was one of those asked to provide an opinion or two for the Murray investigations , and must give them credit for thoroughness of their enquiries and for most of the conclusions they reached . |
| 25 | Fewer than eighty purveyors of museum supplies and services took booths , and for most of the time the vendors largely from Canada and the northeastern U.S. had the Hilton basement entirely to themselves . |
| 26 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 27 | But people can only provide for their own welfare in a capitalist society if opportunities are available for them in the labour market- and for most , because of transport and accessibility problems , child-care issues and constraints on long-distance migration , it must be the very local labour market . |
| 28 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 29 | Indeed , in some local areas , hospital provision was so low that ‘ it is doubtful whether some … can be considered to be offering a comprehensive service , ’ and for most people , most of the time , it is provision at the local rather than the regional level which really matters . |
| 30 | This control by the government of the life and work of the House is pervasive and for most purposes has ended any corporate sense of ‘ the House ’ as a body which could oppose the government of the day . |