Example sentences of "by and [adj] the " in BNC.
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1 | Though in the early days there were capacity problems at Gloucester , by and large the new arrangements have worked well . |
2 | By and large the evidence which Engels and his contemporaries saw as significant of the high status of women in primitive societies is often wrong or does not signify what it was believed to mean . |
3 | In general , balance between front and back-benches will always be contentious — each element wants to have a larger role — but by and large the broadcasters seem to have struck it reasonably well . |
4 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
5 | Continentals — and by and large the Celts , as you will no doubt agree — are as a rule unable to control themselves in moments of strong emotion , and are thus unable to maintain a professional demeanour other than in the least challenging of situations . |
6 | One sad aspect of the sexual revolution is the fact that by and large the churches have had little to contribute that is positive and constructive . |
7 | There were plenty of cases of unruly or difficult or dissident bishops ; but by and large the Church stood by the kings ; and in return the kings placed more and more authority and responsibility in the hands of bishops and abbots . |
8 | The more isolated rural Free City population gave its support to the NSDAP at an early stage , but by and large the city dwellers could give the lie to much Nazi propaganda . |
9 | By and large the Poles and Germans of the city had shown very early in the Free City 's existence that they could rub along together . |
10 | It is a tribute to the formative power of the experience that by and large the contradiction was internalized . |
11 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
12 | It could be dangerous — Edward Shelley of Warninghurst died at Tyburn in 1588 for hiding a priest — but by and large the penalties were not too heavily enforced . |
13 | Sir , — By and large the services of practising chartered accountants to their clients are about 5% of any real value and 95% conformity to legislation — audit , taxation etc . |
14 | By and large the Nonconformist churches supported the war , destroying themselves as a significant political force in the process . |
15 | By and large the original exhibition at Edinburgh has been well adapted to the diverse spaces at Kenwood , even if it has not been possible to make the large plaster reconstruction model , lent by the Museo della Civiltà Romana , Rome , still the focal centre of the show . |
16 | A biologist who was so minded could counter by arguing that , if by and large the marriages generate the children , then marriage laws could still have been influenced by evolutionary pressures . |
17 | Parliament , in short , can not be trusted ; and the referendum showed that by and large the people do not trust it . |
18 | And by and large the activities of church and state would be separatist . |
19 | It is true that other investigators found further dimensions which they considered important ( such as emotional involvement-calm detachment ) , yet by and large the above two were confirmed by most . |
20 | Pre-marital pregnancy was therefore generally an anticipation of marriage and by and large the local community could , if necessary , enforce marriage through its repertoire of informal rules , on a reluctant young couple . |
21 | But I would like to say to you that in my view , and in the view of the organisation I represent , Phoenix Trust , by and large the time is long past for analysis . |
22 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
23 | By and large the world of commerce has come to terms with word processing , be it a simple electronic typewriter , an Amstrad PCW or a full-blown secretarial system running on dedicated PCs . |
24 | Right the rationale is that the degree of parental investment and its effect on the offspring vary with the offspring 's age , and as says , one of the fundamental erm , principles of this is that the , by and large the younger the offspring the more valuable any unit of parental is to it , and the more efficacious it is , and the most obvious example of that would be food . |
25 | There is little question that overseas markets , by and large the trophies of war , were of great value for the growth of English manufacturing over the eighteenth century . |
26 | Naturally , some of these investors , particularly those who were speculating in the more unpredictable ventures , lost money , but by and large the European and American ‘ coupon clippers ’ as they were sometimes called , did very well out of their overseas investments . |
27 | But by and large the consensus was that children tended to use English at home , while parents very often used " Jamaican " , especially when old friends came visiting . |
28 | By and large the British Isles , Germany and Scandinavia provided the international migrants , except for specially footloose minorities such as the Galicians and Basques , ubiquitous in the Hispanic world . |
29 | By and large the characteristic enterprise of the first half of the century had been financed privately — e.g. from family assets — and expanded by reinvesting profits , though this might well mean that , with most of capital tied up in this way , the firm might rely a good deal on credit for its current operations . |
30 | Now quite clearly the new settlement erm when it , if and when it goes ahead will be outside erm the area of the green belt and which by definition is by and large the area of the Greater York er er study area , and I think in response to er Mr 's point , we 've accepted as a need for a er a minor amendment to the wording of policy H one to reflect that er that reality . |