Example sentences of "[noun sg] were for the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |