Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the tax burden is fixed , an employee offered a company car opts for the most potent and gadget-laden model , at a given engine-capacity , that his status entitles him to . |
| 2 | The bones consist of lagomorph remains for the most part with a few small lizards and rodents . |
| 3 | With respect to die development ( and these comparisons are based on studies of a die set for the most complicated body panel ) , the time between the release of the first rough part drawings to completion of tryouts was 14 months in Japan versus 25 and 28 months in the US and Europe , respectively ( see Figure 3 ) . |
| 4 | But as a consequence , he will now face the sort of brutal attention reserved for the most lauded players in Serie A — the sort of stern treatment Lineker himself encountered and overcame in his successful time in Spain with Barcelona . |
| 5 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 6 | Chaperoning was so easy , it was the job reserved for the most junior nurses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moreover , any initial support for the Japanese as ousters of Western imperialism had for the most part been transformed into armed nationalist movements anxious to oust the Japanese in their turn and achieve real independence . |
| 9 | It may even have been envisaged that the holder of the office would act as , in some sense , chief adviser to the sultan on matters pertaining to the sacred law , although a point to be noted in this connection is that both Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan lived in Bursa while the sultan resided for the most part in Edirne . |
| 10 | Certainly , the phenomenon of a Black man bidding for the most powerful office in the world has raised , irreversibly , the expectations of Americans who , prior to Jackson 's candidacy , never even dreamed about accurate , or responsive , political representation . |
| 11 | Our model adjusted for the most obvious of these ( age and smoking ) , but there may be other unidentified factors . |
| 12 | That said , the drifting of Morrissey 's voice over an unlikely background makes for the most effective twin attack since Yazoo . |
| 13 | Women are either absent , or present fulfilling for the most part the roles which were assigned to women in that society . |
| 14 | they are between jobs and are taking time to search for the most appropriate job with the highest wage ( search unemployment ) ; |
| 15 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 16 | Mr Strachan 's time in office coincided for the most part with the tenure as Librarian of the late Professor Denis Roberts . |
| 17 | The bones of the arm had for the most part fused but fusion had not yet taken place between the radius and ulna , which would be expected to have occurred by the age of twenty-one . |
| 18 | At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be . |