Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this research , the investigators shall be examining the process of change under several different headings : the economy ; social relations ; and political institutions , drawing for the most part upon Soviet newspapers and journals , which have become a much better guide to the process of change under current policies of glasnost or openness . |
| 2 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 3 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 4 | Travel and feature writers from all over the world had stayed in Crystal Springs , going back to their desks to write for the Most part glowing reports . |
| 5 | The scheme is generally considered successful in making science more enjoyable and accessible for students , though the goal of independent practical work by students has for the most part not been achieved . |
| 6 | In the interests of conciseness and convention , it is necessary to use here the suffix notation for vector equations which has for the most part been avoided in this book ( the other main exception being the appendix to Chapter 5 ) . |
| 7 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 8 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 9 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 10 | She howled for the most part of her first two years . |
| 11 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |
| 12 | In May 1990 Cape Verde joined the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) in a move designed to encourage investment from the estimated 600,000 expatriate Cape Verdeans living for the most part in the USA and Europe . |
| 13 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 14 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 17 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 18 | She was the latest of a long line of girlfriends , drawn for the most part from the upper reaches of the aristocracy , who had appeared on his romantic horizon . |
| 19 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
| 20 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | It is highly significant that the two texts which Sartre chooses for the most part to ignore are L's Chiens de garde and Le Cheval de Troie , the two texts where Nizan 's communist party allegiances are most clearly visible . |
| 25 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 26 | Palestinian guerrillas , based for the most part around Sidon , proved to be the main obstacle to a full dissolution of the Lebanese militias . |
| 27 | Since 1978 the World Bank has been publishing an annual World Development Report with a growing number of ‘ world development indicators ’ tables ( eighteen tables in 1978 , twenty-seven in 1983 , thirty-three in 1988 ) , based for the most part on UN and internal World Bank data sources . |
| 28 | This ability is independent of idiosyncratic beliefs , feelings and usages ( although it may refer to those shared by participants ) , and is based for the most part on quite regular and relatively abstract principles Pragmatics can be taken to be the description of this ability , as it operates both for particular languages and language in general . |
| 29 | The special is timed for an 8.00pm departure from Waterloo to comply with the ban on daylight running over the third rail and to ensure that there is no diesel pilot . |
| 30 | 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 ? |