Example sentences of "[adj] for most [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 2 | To take but one of many examples , there is a single code to represent all the variations on the Charnley hip replacement procedure — quite adequate for most statistical purposes but falling short of the detail required for audit and for many of the uses to which medical records are put . |
| 3 | But if resort to civil remedies is impracticable for most individual investors the sanctions of the civil law can not play their proper role . |
| 4 | The second is that the proposals are considered to be impracticable for most small companies and their auditors . |
| 5 | This ‘ normal ’ requirement is seen by many commentators as being totally impracticable for most small companies , and fairly difficult even for some large companies , particularly given the extended period which now needs to be considered . |
| 6 | Life , in fact , would have been impossible for most higher forms , with only the hardiest microbes surviving . |
| 7 | In a final statement issued at the close of the talks the group agreed to conduct an " urgent review " of the member countries ' negotiating positions towards finding greater flexibility and facilitating a breakthrough at the deadlocked " Uruguay Round " of global trade talks launched in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 37227-28 for most recent developments in Uruguay Round negotiations ] . |
| 8 | Moreover , the technology that is commonly available for large cement factories is inappropriate for most developing countries . |
| 9 | All would stress that our view of marriage as a private alliance concerning almost exclusively two people is totally inappropriate for most non-capitalist societies , especially those based on descent groups . |
| 10 | Whilst Lympho-paque is ideal for most mammalian lymphocytes . |
| 11 | This would be ideal for most local newspapers and many others besides . |
| 12 | My forge is raised on a table at a height ( approximately 30in ) comfortable for most Western blacksmiths . |
| 13 | Newspaper circulation has soared : by between 50,000 and 100,000 for most national papers , a welcome rise at a time when advertising has slumped . |
| 14 | 6.2 The Lease and the counterpart shall be prepared by the Landlord 's Solicitors and an engrossment of the counterpart shall be delivered to the offices of the Tenant 's Solicitors at least [ 5 ] working days before the Completion Date Five working days is too short for most institutional tenants to execute and return documentation , particularly where the tenant 's solicitor has to check the engrossment against the agreed form attached to the agreement for lease . |
| 15 | The WIIC is a unitary authority , responsible for most local services , which elsewhere in the United Kingdom are divided between two separate tiers of local government . |
| 16 | After a five week training course the crews will be deemed qualified for most low-level missions . |
| 17 | At present it is expensive for most private investors . |
| 18 | It was too expensive for most private individuals there to send telegrams ; the network was used almost exclusively by the authorities . |
| 19 | Built from continuous cast iron it is suitable for most common gauges from 15″ to standard . |
| 20 | The usual mixture suitable for most aquatic plants , i.e. clay or sand and peat will be most suitable . |
| 21 | Virtually all CD68 macrophages in normal lamina propria and Peyer 's patches were L1 and the same was true for most extravasated macrophages in normal peripheral lymph nodes . |
| 22 | In any case , neither the Germanic nor the Slavonic mode of production was of much significance for Marx 's and Engels 's later work , and the same is true for most Marxist studies . |
| 23 | Amplification will usually be sufficient for most analytical purposes by this stage , but should even greater sensitivity be necessary — for example , in the analysis of DNA from a single cell — then a tiny aliquot from the first polymerase chain reaction tube ( as a source of sample DNA ) is simply transferred to a second identical tube , and amplification is continued . |