Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’ |
| 2 | They are nonetheless a big comedown from the 1960s , when federal trustbusters took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . |
| 3 | Not only had Khrushchev denounced Stalin 's crimes ; the new warriors of perestroika , including Mikhail Gorbachev himself , were for the most part the Khrushchev generation , whose youthful idealism had coincided with that small post-Stalin thaw . |
| 4 | For the most part the relief sought by each of these four appellants in their procedures for judicial review is the same , though somewhat differently expressed . |
| 5 | For the most part the roads follow ridges but occasionally , east of Litchborough for example , the scenery unfolds to present a patchwork of fields typical of the traditional English countryside . |
| 6 | For the most part the artists Rosenthal and Joachimedes have chosen are fine ; the problem is the narrowness of perspective this list imposes . |
| 7 | There were some minor successes in cases of illegal imprisonment of seamen , standards of accommodation for lascars and compensation for sickness and injury , but for the most part the Shipping Federation reigned supreme , " by turns supercilious and vindictive " , providing ample funds for blackleg labour and even , during the parliamentary session of 1906 during which the Merchant Shipping Bill was being considered " turning a corner of the Committee Room into a private bureau of their own from whence they assiduously prompted and coached those shipowners in the Committee who were hostile to Mr. Lloyd George 's proposals " . |
| 8 | The so-called terms of trade , more accurately labelled ‘ unequal exchange ’ ( see Edwards , 1985 , ch. 4 ) , ensured that for the most part the prices of raw materials were falling relative to the prices of manufactured goods . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Part of our reaction to that situation has been negative , especially the behaviourist interlude that sought to define out of existence many of the issues that confront us , but for the most part the approach has been a steady accumulation of experimental data in anticipation of the day when meaningful theories could be developed . |
| 11 | But for the most part the land remained in shadow . |
| 12 | Although the provincial assemblies of the Estates , representing the nobility , the clergy and the burghers , had at certain times some degree of local responsibility , for the most part the life of the realm was directed from the Austrian capital . |
| 13 | There have been some exceptions ( again , perhaps because insufficient phase-one training was given ) ( Arnoult 1953 ; McAllister 1953 ; McCormack 1958 ) but for the most part the test performance of control subjects has turned out to be inferior to that of subjects pre-trained with the relevant stimuli ( G. Cantor 1955 ; J. Cantor 1955 ; Cantor and Hottel 1957 ; Smith and Means 1961 ; Hendrickson and Muehl 1962 ) . |
| 14 | At times workers displayed suspicion of the pretensions and relatively privileged way of life of their educated allies , but for the most part the discord between the two was slight . |
| 15 | For the most part the letters were dutiful , full of domestic detail , and perfunctory . |
| 16 | Nicholas frankly admitted that for the most part the reports were a pack of lies . |
| 17 | This appears convincing since the decline in mortality rates antedated for the most part the advent of efficacious pills and surgical procedures . |
| 18 | Thus even for governments with radical good intentions , which for the most part the Lloyd George government was , there were formidable obstacles to piecemeal reform . |
| 19 | As I say , for the most part the money is not paid by the likes of me or of the hon. Gentleman ; it is paid out of the wages of people who never get beyond the basic rate of tax paying . |
| 20 | For the most part the explosions caused few casualties and little material damage , but were effective in fostering an impression of insecurity . |
| 21 | For the most part the school has little control over these types of evaluation so we will consider the approaches in outline , concentrating on the issues raised . |
| 22 | In one respect the local political structure in Clermont was relatively simple : although Theuderic mounted a raid on the Auvergne , and although Chramn took up residence in the district , for the most part the civitas was not of great interest to the Merovingian kings . |
| 23 | What must have really alerted concerned Americans was Blumer 's conclusion that for the most part the movies dulled discrimination , confused judgement , and stimulated random and unchannelled emotions . |
| 24 | Many of his best watercolours have been made from these splendid sketches , but for the most part the paintings are not dated . |
| 25 | Fife and Drum received a few wide-eyed stares , but for the most part the people seemed to recognise them and their owner . |
| 26 | For the most part the scribes who copied the Pentateuch were very careful , and it would seem that very few errors crept into the Hebrew text . |
| 27 | Just occasionally , as in the orgiastic masquerade — complete with jazz band — near the end , it all becomes too much and one slumps back in exhaustion , but for the most part the show 's farcical delirium is irresistible . |
| 28 | No other species assemblages have such a disproportion , and for the most part the numbers of digested in situ incisors are either the same as or much less than the numbers of isolated incisors . |
| 29 | For the most part the walls are steep and blank , formerly quarried in places , and split by non-too-friendly cracklines . |
| 30 | These resolutions , for the most part the outcome of pragmatic adaptation of a moderate collectivism enshrined in Labour and the new social order , and the implementation of constitutional change , were to lay the foundations of a mass party able to command the loyalty of large sections of the enfranchised working class . |