Example sentences of "[noun sg] be for the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 2 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 3 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 4 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |
| 5 | Henceforth the Justices of the Forest were for the most part great barons , who often held extensive estates in or near the forests they administered . |
| 6 | Although their boundaries can not be other than arbitrary , the South-West , the West Midlands , the Northern and the rest are for the most part easily identifiable territories , demarcated with a fair degree of consistency by public authorities , the media and national associations of all sorts including political parties . |
| 7 | Attitudes amongst Oxfordshire teachers towards SSE as a general notion are for the most part moderately positive , but towards the LEA scheme moderately negative , particularly so with regard to the time it takes . |
| 8 | But functional requirements within a development are for the most part a matter for the developers and their customers . |
| 9 | But the legal relationship was for the most part enveloped in a broader normative framework … |
| 10 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 11 | This paper is for the most part about medical practice , particularly general medical practice of the British variety , within the context of a more theoretical discussion of some aspects of professional work . |
| 12 | Karim 's narrative voice is for the most part naive , but when the blinding light of some tremendous truth flashes before him , the voice of his creator is doing the prompting . |
| 13 | The second class of forests were those like Whittlewood , Salcey , Rockingham , Wychwood and Sherwood , where the soil was for the most part owned by local landowners . |
| 14 | Thus , in general , when all taxes , both direct and indirect , are combined the tax burden is for the most part far from progressive . |
| 15 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 16 | In many parts of the country , villages are dormitory and retirement centres ; the farms that now work the land are for the most part out in their fields away from the villages . |
| 17 | The colours used for fresco painting were for the most part easily obtained : red ochre , yellow ochre , black ( either from charred bone or from carbonaceous shale ) and blue ( from a copper-tinted glass ) . |
| 18 | The result of all this is that the Asian elephant is for the most part now confined to hilly and mountainous regions . |
| 19 | The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless . |
| 20 | In fact , much points towards the conclusion that , despite its centrality to Hitler 's own thinking , anti-Semitism was for the most part of no more than secondary importance as a factor shaping popular opinion in the Third Reich . |
| 21 | Hezarfen , in a later passage than his list of Muftis , where he essentially simply follows Katib Celebi , is explicit on the point of separate muftiliks , though perhaps vague on the point of how official they were , saying : Until the end of the reign of Mehmed II there was not all that much glory and renown in the office of Mufti dignity and regard were for the most part dependent upon the person [ who held it ] . |
| 22 | One class was for the most original entry ; another was limited to the tots ; a third to the over-8s . |