Example sentences of "[verb] for the most part " 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 | 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 ? |
| 30 | Detailed analysis of the early period of social-democratic activity , during the late 1880s and early 90s , has found that ‘ the relationship between worker and intelligentsia leaders was characterized for the most part by trust , co-operation and mutual respect . ’ |