Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But for the most part the land remained in shadow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This appears convincing since the decline in mortality rates antedated for the most part the advent of efficacious pills and surgical procedures . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ For the most part the smoke you see from the Ridgery is from fires lit by persons of a different sort . |
| 14 | For the most part the rule of recognition is not stated , but its existence is shown in the way in which particular rules are identified , either by courts or other officials or private persons or their advisers … |
| 15 | For the most part the climate is temperate , with strong seasonal fluctuations , harsh winters in the central and northern areas , warm summers and abundant rainfall . |
| 16 | The lights at the docks twinkled mistily , and some of the larger craft at moorings carried lights , but for the most part the harbour was a broad plain of darkness . |
| 17 | But for the most part the frontier troops had succeeded in their task of keeping the barbarians at bay . |
| 18 | Only Pliny the Elder interrupts the silence by telling us that a Zachalias Babyloniensis — surely a Jew called Zacharias — wrote a book dedicated to Mithridates ( Eupator ? ) on the influence of precious stones on human destiny : this must have been written in Greek ( N.H. 37.60.169 ) . |
| 19 | There was magic behind this goblet as , however much wine the traveller drank , the goblet would never seem to empty . |
| 20 | He just was not able to bring in business the way DPR would have liked him to do . |
| 21 | After this , you need only water the garden sparingly every few months . |
| 22 | Stephen Pears made a fine save but could only palm the ball into the path of Steve Butler . |
| 23 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 24 | Moreover , each quantum had a certain amount of energy that was greater the higher the frequency of the waves , so at a high enough frequency the emission of a single quantum would require more energy than was available . |
| 25 | Among Crime and Punishment 's major characters only Porfiry the detective is in no sense an arriver . |
| 26 | BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators . |
| 27 | So sometimes they-will not carry-out the work themselves , but rather drive the car to a specialist centre and charge for the time . |
| 28 | In the Lugbara case , the ancestors make no bones about their direct administration of the moral code : if you do not toe the line they quickly bring you to your knees with a few sharp , salutary lessons . |
| 29 | The activities of Whips are a mystery to most people outside Parliament but it is known that they do occasionally cajole , threaten and even bully MPs who might not toe the party line . |
| 30 | Which did not pleasure the Emperor . |