Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 2 | Each day he would arrive at the theatre at two or three in the afternoon , long before the 7.30pm performance . |
| 3 | In any case the universities , while all through the 1960s , 1970s , and 1980s publicly deploring the undue specialization of the English sixth form , nevertheless for the most part continue to demand it , especially of those candidates who wish to read science or languages . |
| 4 | Managers , especially those in more senior positions , thus for the most part obtain such externally available information as they use informally . |
| 5 | They are still well maintained , although no longer for the most part privately owned . |
| 6 | In 1866 Reichenberg ( Liberec ) , the Bohemian textile centre , still produced half its total output on the looms of artisan weavers , admittedly for the most part now dependent on a few large factories . |
| 7 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 8 | Ensuring that private practitioners take on preventive activities and promote healthy behaviour by their patients requires a substantial move away from a strictly market led approach . |
| 9 | In one sense Japanese subcontractors are being pushed away from the most labour intensive processes where overseas plants have the advantage . |
| 10 | Moving away from the mainly blood and guts stuff , this is a more involved horror thriller which should help expand his market . |
| 11 | As zero hour was reached , and punctually to the very minute our barrage lifted , through my glasses I could clearly observe our skirmishers leave their trenches and move steadily forward ; here and there I could even distinguish the smoke puffs of bursting bombs . |
| 12 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 13 | Half a century later , such commentary as there is on Pound 's poem is still for the most part concerned with this question that for Bunting ‘ does not arise ’ . |
| 14 | The latter are still for the most part wedded to the gesellschaft model — hence the crisis in legal ideology . |
| 15 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |
| 16 | The whole burden of these cuts fell on the colleges of education partly because , as we have seen , their numbers could be swiftly regulated and partly because they were still for the most part institutions predominantly concerned with teacher education . |
| 17 | By the early seventeenth century , therefore , foreign offices , in so far as they existed , were still for the most part embryonic . |
| 18 | For instance , Barnet have to go to Scarborough , with fans due to begin the trek at 6am for an 11am kick-off . |
| 19 | The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses . |
| 20 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 21 | It will total about £59 million , which compares favourably with the measly £3 million that Labour spent in its last year in office . |
| 22 | This was , it seems , partly with the rather Machiavellian intention of forcing Conservative MPs to unite behind a Prime Minister whose continuance in office was considered best to serve Labour 's prospects of victory at the next election . |
| 23 | We made , unwittingly for the most part , the same assumptions about life and work and discipline and values . |
| 24 | What political integration still remained had now for the most part little to do with Nazi idealism or belief in the genius of the Führer , but in the common fear of the consequences of defeat and hatred of the enemy coupled with reserves of patriotic defiance . |
| 25 | Meals are eaten communally for the most part and we will meet together regularly for worship times . |
| 26 | They were a mixed bunch , O.K. for the most part — one had to be thrown out for drawing genitals on Arthur the doll , thus adding to my scant sexual knowledge , and one , a regular called John , was particularly charming and handsome . |
| 27 | At this stage he can either pull with both hands sharply in a downwards direction , taking the attacker to the floor , or simply twist his open-palm grab and convert it into an arm lock , thus causing the attacker excruciating pain . |
| 28 | Fig 64 The tilted angle of the board indicates that all the weight is now on the leeward side of the board , i e the right foot . |
| 29 | The PGCE Method Course in TEFL started in 1977 , when it mainly attracted graduates in Modern Languages who wished to teach overseas for a least part of their career . |
| 30 | That would throw up some even more interesting questions — and might eventually drive research money back into the universities where , at least for the most part it belongs . |