Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] for the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders .
2 Very broadly residential homes cater for the physically frail whereas nursing homes/long-stay hospital care is more likely to cater for the mentally frail .
3 It may also be equally true that disincentive effects operate for the very low and the low income-earners where any increase in earnings is counter-balanced — sometimes more than counter-balanced — by a corresponding loss of benefits .
4 Climbing sports originate for the most part from bush types ‘ sporting ’ extra long canes which still bear the same flowers as the parent .
5 The alternatives have for the most part consisted in elusive doctrines of " natural necessity " , causal " power " , " agency " or some kind of " logical connection " and in inexplicit declarations of the reality of causal necessitation .
6 Yet on the subject of mixed motives , business ethicists have for the most part been unhelpfully silent .
7 Teachers in this country are unaccustomed to operating in such a regulatory environment where the curriculum is concerned ; and local authorities have for the most part exerted little control over what is taught .
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