Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 2 | In so far as the fear of relativism is of it becoming even for the most aware a matter of taste whether one is selfish or unselfish , compassionate or cruel , the fear is misplaced . |
| 3 | There is also disagreement on the method that should be used for frost testing , with the British representatives pressing hard for the most rigorous system . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | Braving storms and great creatures of the deep including the whale shark , they sailed hopefully for the most romantic of destinations , a coral island , and succeeded . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had one advantage over him ; he had only a general idea of which shops would interest Garry and his ‘ Mrs Smith ’ , but Claudia knew Dana would make straight for the most exclusive dress shops , and luckily Claudia had a very good idea which one would be at the top of her list . |
| 9 | Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage . |
| 10 | And this venue worked wonderfully for the most successful part of this concert the Poulenc Organ Concerto . |
| 11 | The figures announced today for the most recent month are the best for a long time and continue the trend of recent months . |
| 12 | With a choice of simple current/deposit account facilities , fixed deposit accounts , or managed currency funds and a highly personalised level of private banking , you may need to shop around for the most suitable . |
| 13 | Meals are eaten communally for the most part and we will meet together regularly for worship times . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |