Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 2 | The first was announced in a Practice Direction ( 1989 ) 1 WLR 281 , which provided for the much earlier delivery of skeleton arguments which would be studied by the judges before they sat to hear the appeal . |
| 3 | The party machines were crooked , but at least they provided for the to-and-fro of political patronage in ways that left the mayor , as chief executive , relatively free to run the city . |
| 4 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 5 | He drew a deep breath and headed for the nearest parked car . |
| 6 | It was a fast journey , and accomplished for the most part in silence , although Rohan did point out the entrance to the Château de Biron , as they flashed past . |
| 7 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 8 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 9 | The main thrust of Lukacs 's criticism is that the rich potentiality of socialist realism degenerated for the most part into what he terms the " anaemia of socialist naturalism " because its practitioners deliberately chose to substitute the profundity of Marx 's original dialectical understanding of reality for the banality and facility of Stalinist economic subjectivism " , the inevitable consequence of the Stalinist personality cult . |
| 10 | Chapter 3 showed for the most part that traditional society had an arbitrary approach to the problem typified by suicide ( as with the Banyankole ) , ‘ snuffing out ’ ( as with the Nyakyusa and Ngonde ) or violent change ( as with the Shilluk ) . |
| 11 | Monday arrived , as we set out we had two major obstacles to overcome , firstly not getting lost in Budapest ( which we achieved for the very first time ) and secondly getting through the border between Hungary and Romania . |
| 12 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |
| 13 | As goals at Arsenal became fewer , most people plumped for the most obvious explanation ; Nicholas was a victim of the magical trinity of bevvy , birds and big-headedness . |
| 14 | This appears convincing since the decline in mortality rates antedated for the most part the advent of efficacious pills and surgical procedures . |
| 15 | Those votes of Caraher 's which were transferable went for the most part to Hendron ( Alliance ) in Stage VI I I , and ensured his election with a surplus of 498 . |
| 16 | The Kirgiz leader , Masaliev , called for a unitary USSR with a strong centre ; most other republican first secretaries , however , called for a renewed federation , and the Armenian leader Movsisyan went for the more radical idea of the USSR as a union of sovereign states based upon a network of bilateral associations . |
| 17 | Mr Strachan 's time in office coincided for the most part with the tenure as Librarian of the late Professor Denis Roberts . |
| 18 | She lumbered out of bed , reached for the too recently removed dressing-gown and took herself off to her bathroom . |
| 19 | Theodora looked for the more recent memorials . |
| 20 | In June 1991 they voted for the most democratic free-marketeer on offer in a presidential election . |
| 21 | The moral condemnation of the Third Reich emerged for the most part only after the end of the war when the most barbaric crimes of the regime were fully exposed . |
| 22 | The 6ft 10ins Northampton and England lock spoke for the forwards when he said : ‘ Our backs can run rings round New Zealand . |
| 23 | I think she did for the most part . |
| 24 | All rats ( paths superimposed ) searched for the now absent feeder in the central region . |
| 25 | Naturally , I hoped for the best as regards the efficacy of my heart-felt prayer , but I had to be practical . |
| 26 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 27 | But these and similar reports indicated that , at any rate in such traditionally Catholic conservative areas where Nazism had only partially penetrated the existing sub-culture though where approval of Hitler had for the most part been completely unreserved between about 1938 and 1940 , the gulf between propaganda image and actual reality was now rapidly becoming blatantly obvious . |
| 28 | The bones of the arm had for the most part fused but fusion had not yet taken place between the radius and ulna , which would be expected to have occurred by the age of twenty-one . |
| 29 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 30 | Moreover , any initial support for the Japanese as ousters of Western imperialism had for the most part been transformed into armed nationalist movements anxious to oust the Japanese in their turn and achieve real independence . |