Example sentences of "[vb past] for the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 4 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This appears convincing since the decline in mortality rates antedated for the most part the advent of efficacious pills and surgical procedures . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Strachan 's time in office coincided for the most part with the tenure as Librarian of the late Professor Denis Roberts . |
| 12 | In June 1991 they voted for the most democratic free-marketeer on offer in a presidential election . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think she did for the most part . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be . |
| 21 | During the first year the programme targets had for the most part been met . |
| 22 | " Scientific socialists " had for the most part ignored the contradictions between the growth of " the productive forces and the structure of nature . |
| 23 | ‘ The cairn 's surface is composed essentially of limestone screes stabilised for the most part beneath a shallow , fragile turf , ’ said Andre . |
| 24 | It may even have been envisaged that the holder of the office would act as , in some sense , chief adviser to the sultan on matters pertaining to the sacred law , although a point to be noted in this connection is that both Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan lived in Bursa while the sultan resided for the most part in Edirne . |
| 25 | Only a few days after the conclusion of the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , held for the most part in Spain , itself a highly symbolic act of political and cultural allegiance to the Republican cause , Nizan was deeply shocked to learn of the tragic and unforeseen death of Gerda Taro , a young female photographer working for Ce Soir at the battle front near Brunete . |