Example sentences of "for the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 2 | Nicholsons ' pubs for the most part are architectural gems in their own right and include The Blackfriar and The Argyll Arms in Central London and the Prince Alfred in Maida Vale amongst their number . |
| 3 | For the most part , they are self-taught . |
| 4 | Twenty-two athletes spend five days for the most part watching their teammates do all the work , and at the end of it all , everyone is quite happy to settle for a draw . |
| 5 | But landing safely in torrential rain , with a squally and unpredictable wind , can only be a matter of luck for the most skilled pilot . |
| 6 | Each evening I reported to Anne , keeping it light for the most part . |
| 7 | I spend a great deal of my time in the Community ; Brussels and Luxembourg for the most part . |
| 8 | They must always be seen to have sufficient room in which to manoeuvre if they are to create a spaciousness for the most difficult changes in épaulement as pose follows pose . |
| 9 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 10 | The strength can be 6:1 , or for the most durable surface , 3:1 may be used . |
| 11 | Competitions for the most handsome dog and prettiest bitch need no explanation . |
| 12 | They were also , for the most part , practising poets and men of letters , who would want to make judgements . |
| 13 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |
| 14 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 15 | Allowing for the conventions of sedate amenity that governed American reviewing ( as for the most part they still do ) , one can detect in the American reviewers of Eliot 's Poems ( 1920 ) and of The Waste Land ( 1922 ) the same recalcitrance that the British reviewers expressed more cheekily . |
| 16 | Half a century later , such commentary as there is on Pound 's poem is still for the most part concerned with this question that for Bunting ‘ does not arise ’ . |
| 17 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |
| 18 | Even in the central Largo , for the most part sensitively played , he risked a quite unidiomatic accelerando which , miraculously , the orchestra paralleled . |
| 19 | With the golden share intact , the company is under no immediate pressure to negotiate with the likes of GM and Ford and is likely to press for the most advantageous terms available . |
| 20 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 21 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
| 22 | Thus , perhaps without realising the implications , the Soviet parliament gave the go-ahead for the most revolutionary experiment here since Lenin 's New Economic Policy of the 1920s : for a massive delegation of powers from the centre , permitting a single republic to create its own market-oriented economy , with its own budget , and to redraw economic rules which basically Stalin 's . |
| 23 | The prize for the most unfortunate advertisement this year must go to Mobil , the oil major , for yesterday 's offering in the Financial Times . |
| 24 | For the most remarkable thing to have emerged from Mr de Klerk 's decision is the degree to which Mr Mandela and the exiled African National Congress have become participants in government decision-making . |
| 25 | The Medical Journalists ' Association 1989 award for the most outstanding contribution to medical journalism has been won by Nicholas Timmins , The Independent 's Health Services Correspondent . |
| 26 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 27 | Back in The Hague there is still enough art for the most voracious appetite , at the Prince Willem gallery and the Gemeentemuseum . |
| 28 | For the most part Great Russians were fighting Great Russians , and in the process trampled over the lands of peasants , whether Russian , Belorussian , Ukrainian , etc. , none of whom was more inclined thereafter to feel particularly attracted to Muscovite patriotism . |
| 29 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |
| 30 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |