Example sentences of "were [prep] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |
| 2 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 3 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 4 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 5 | Once academics and scientists kept in touch by letter and ‘ corresponding members ’ of learned societies were for the most part never seen . |
| 6 | Not only had Khrushchev denounced Stalin 's crimes ; the new warriors of perestroika , including Mikhail Gorbachev himself , were for the most part the Khrushchev generation , whose youthful idealism had coincided with that small post-Stalin thaw . |
| 7 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 8 | The floors were for the most part tiled , large patterned tiles , not unattractive , but in need of thorough cleaning . |
| 9 | Among the Zuwaya history was not a specialized occupation ; the relations were for the most part those of patrilineal descent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The costumes were for the most part composed of homespun cloth of native dye , though now and again gay neckerchiefs — the manufacture of the south country — gave liveliness to the head ; while now and again a bright-coloured shawl was pinned across the shoulders of the women . |
| 13 | Their days and nights were spent together in a large but gloomy chamber , reached by a winding staircase ; and their requests to take the air in the gardens were for the most part ignored . |
| 14 | The Basques , a people with a unique , non-Latin culture and , to the majority of Spaniards , an incomprehensible language , were for the most part devoutly Catholic and conservative . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 17 | We do know that " they were for the most part young women of eighteen and upwards " in the first instance . |
| 18 | In the South , too , the scales of the law courts were tilted against them ; they were for the most part deprived of the right to vote , by various devices , notably the poll tax imposed on every voter ; and socially they were treated as lower-grade humans . |
| 19 | So the rather heavy , stately movements of 2001 : A Space Odyssey to which the effects team of Kubrick himself , Wally Veevers , Douglas Trumbull , Con Pederson and Tom Howard were for the most part limited — except in the ‘ Stargate ’ section — by their simple , mechanical system ( no electronics , no computer for motion control or graphics ) were apt enough and perhaps fast enough . |
| 20 | He concluded that the questions and comments from Gary and Aggi were for the most part simply those necessary to conduct the bartering and maintain their cover . |
| 21 | The ethnic differences that emerged elsewhere in the USSR in the late 1980s were for the most part more traditional , almost ‘ tribal ’ in character , in that they sprang from antipathies between ethnic groups with different religious , linguistic and historical backgrounds and expressed themselves in the form of communal clashes rather than pressures for formal independence . |
| 22 | Thus , although Pollen 's instruments were capable of greatly improving the gunnery of the Royal Navy , they were for the most part rejected because of political controversy , technical confusion , faulty tactical analysis , and financial considerations , and a much inferior and derivative system that had been put forward by Dreyer was adopted instead . |
| 23 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 24 | First , legislation allowed paid release only for certain stipulated categories ; these were for the most part workplace stewards and health and safety representatives . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | When the syllabus was referred to , it was the content objectives to which everyone referred ; the process objectives were for the most part ignored . |
| 27 | The Grammar schools were for the most able , bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines . |
| 28 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 29 | Mr d'Ancona recalls : ‘ OSO started with the simple remit of cutting the umbilical cord which linked US oil companies with their established suppliers in the Gulf of Mexico , who were for the most part American . ’ |
| 30 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |