Example sentences of "for most [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of these would account for most of the variations in the different rates of fall . |
| 2 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 3 | Many reckon the enormous cost , estimated to be as much as £10 billion , is too great for most of the players in the current economic climate . |
| 4 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 5 | And the same goes for most of the members of the club . ’ |
| 6 | Contrary to the popular myth of largely extempore worship , there is a more or less set liturgical pattern for most of the services of the former Congregationalists and Presbyterians , who , together with the Churches of Christ , form the United Reformed Church . |
| 7 | Indeed , for most of the inhabitants of the countries in which xenophobia is now epidemic , the old ways of life have changed so drastically since the 1950s that there is very little of them left to defend . |
| 8 | The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion . |
| 9 | Sitting on the studio bed to the right of her desk and chair , she recalled old Yury lying there , for most of the hours of the day and night , and felt relieved , for his sake , that he was gone . |
| 10 | This does not necessarily put the country of origin of the individual capitalist in a better position , for most of the benefits of this changing situation may accrue to the Swiss banking industry , or the real estate markets in California and New York and the Cote d'Azur , as well as the purveyors of super-luxury consumer goods . |
| 11 | She was not alone in this , for most of the girls at her school managed to infuse a certain erotic passion into their rendering of various appeals to the Creator , and there was one girl , who fancied herself in love with a naval cadet , who could actually produce real tears during the singing of : |
| 12 | For most of the women in Inventing Ourselves ambiguity proved a treacherous friend , blurring , obscuring , distorting and denying . |
| 13 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |
| 14 | Europe contained , for most of the years between 1880 and 1945 , the most important forces in world politics , and was the focus of the arrangements which governed the world : these arrangements left unregulated only the western hemisphere ( and even there the British Royal Navy tacitly provided the under-writing of power needed by the Monroe Doctrine ) . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether Mr Rocke fell in love with the Yorkshire moors on a visit to Wakefield for that exhibition ; but for most of the years since that time he has lived and worked in Yorkshire as senior art adviser to the West Riding County Council . |
| 16 | Particularly valuable examples of the amount of information which can be given about a character in brief solos are those for most of the characters in A Month in the Country and , dramatically , for those in Mayerling . |
| 17 | Without it , too , there was no longer a clear chronological framework within which to set and arrange the events and stages of Jesus ' ministry ; for most of the indications of dates and journeys are in it . |
| 18 | Space was a premium particularly on Summer Saturdays , and the congestion at the shed throat caused by engines coming off , and going on shed was responsible for most of the delays along the North Wales coast when locomotives changes were necessary , particularly for the Butlins ' workings . |
| 19 | ‘ Electric drive is employed systematically for most of the shops at Wolverton , and therefore the power station ( No. 9 ) is , in some respects , the most interesting building of all . |
| 20 | The later mineralisation was at lower temperature , and was probably responsible for most of the anomalies in drainage samples . |