Example sentences of "[adv] for the most [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 2 | In any case the universities , while all through the 1960s , 1970s , and 1980s publicly deploring the undue specialization of the English sixth form , nevertheless for the most part continue to demand it , especially of those candidates who wish to read science or languages . |
| 3 | Managers , especially those in more senior positions , thus for the most part obtain such externally available information as they use informally . |
| 4 | They are still well maintained , although no longer for the most part privately owned . |
| 5 | In 1866 Reichenberg ( Liberec ) , the Bohemian textile centre , still produced half its total output on the looms of artisan weavers , admittedly for the most part now dependent on a few large factories . |
| 6 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 7 | The efforts of African leaders to build a new political system within their countries in the last twenty-five years have not for the most part been successful . |
| 8 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 9 | However , no hard-pressed city government is likely to fund accident reduction research or to experiment with possibly expensive infrastructure provision or management methods , especially as the cost saving from accident reduction does not for the most part accrue to the authority itself . |
| 10 | Innately more conservative than its urban counterpart , the rural community had not for the most part engaged in widespread and overt political protest in response to the strains that were placed upon it . |
| 11 | But our sources do not for the most part interest themselves in times of peace — the impression from Diodorus ' own narrative is that Dionysius did little but fight wars against Carthage ; but Carthaginian aggressiveness , like Persian , was exaggerated by ‘ crusading ’ Greek historiography and poetry . |
| 12 | Half a century later , such commentary as there is on Pound 's poem is still for the most part concerned with this question that for Bunting ‘ does not arise ’ . |
| 13 | The latter are still for the most part wedded to the gesellschaft model — hence the crisis in legal ideology . |
| 14 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |
| 15 | The whole burden of these cuts fell on the colleges of education partly because , as we have seen , their numbers could be swiftly regulated and partly because they were still for the most part institutions predominantly concerned with teacher education . |
| 16 | By the early seventeenth century , therefore , foreign offices , in so far as they existed , were still for the most part embryonic . |
| 17 | In modern English , moral and mental conditions are spoken of in more or less abstract terms ( anger , suspicion , forcefulness and so on ) cut off for the most part , from their etymological roots … |
| 18 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 19 | In the cave itself , bas-reliefs sculpted close together on a stalagmite cone , hard to make out for the most part , except for an obvious and memorable reindeer some three feet long , in the museum , animals graphically carved or engraved on bone , many of them heads of horses , but fish too , and pieces of bone , antler and ivory carved quite elaborately into abstract patterns of diamond shapes , chevrons or spirals . |
| 20 | We made , unwittingly for the most part , the same assumptions about life and work and discipline and values . |
| 21 | What political integration still remained had now for the most part little to do with Nazi idealism or belief in the genius of the Führer , but in the common fear of the consequences of defeat and hatred of the enemy coupled with reserves of patriotic defiance . |
| 22 | Meals are eaten communally for the most part and we will meet together regularly for worship times . |
| 23 | They were a mixed bunch , O.K. for the most part — one had to be thrown out for drawing genitals on Arthur the doll , thus adding to my scant sexual knowledge , and one , a regular called John , was particularly charming and handsome . |
| 24 | That would throw up some even more interesting questions — and might eventually drive research money back into the universities where , at least for the most part it belongs . |
| 25 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 26 | Its teaching is not — at least for the most part — either definitive or exclusive of error . |
| 27 | Looking back , it seems remarkable that only in the 1950s did white people come to accept — grudgingly for the most part — that black people did not need white people in positions of authority to lead and guide them . |
| 28 | A study of gender and enrolment patterns since 1980 reveals that , although there has been an enormous increase in the absolute numbers of both girls and boys attending school , at secondary level the drop-out rate for girls is not only high , but in proportional terms fewer girls reach fourth to sixth form ( 'O' and ‘ A ’ level grades ) than was the case in the 1970s , when for the most part only privileged whites reached these levels . |
| 29 | Nature has seen to it that for the most part we see things as they are , and so have little occasion to say , ‘ It appears to be … . ’ |