Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The theories considered so far deal for the most part with major changes in the form of society , but it is evident that there are more continuous , relatively small-scale changes which affect political life . |
| 5 | Climbing sports originate for the most part from bush types ‘ sporting ’ extra long canes which still bear the same flowers as the parent . |
| 6 | Editorial standards in the media operate for the most part well inside those limits , with the criminal law invoked chiefly against publications which have as their primary function the exploitation of those limits through material traded as ‘ forbidden fruit ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So they are in touch with their community and they do for the most part , know what 's going on , on their beat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yet on the subject of mixed motives , business ethicists have for the most part been unhelpfully silent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Western nations , however , have for the most part refused to link forest conservation with debt , claiming that adequate assistance already exists . |