Example sentences of "for [art] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The route follows public footpaths and bridleways for the most part which are signed conventionally with yellow marks for footpaths , blue for bridleways . |
| 32 | The path is waymarked throughout its length and for the most part sticks to the coast , running over the chalk and sandstone cliffs which characterise the island . |
| 33 | 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 … |
| 34 | Chapter 3 showed for the most part that traditional society had an arbitrary approach to the problem typified by suicide ( as with the Banyankole ) , ‘ snuffing out ’ ( as with the Nyakyusa and Ngonde ) or violent change ( as with the Shilluk ) . |
| 35 | The efforts of African leaders to build a new political system within their countries in the last twenty-five years have not for the most part been successful . |
| 36 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 37 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 38 | In spite of this , innovation by individuals and communities of farmers in Africa will continue , and for the most part will enable rural families to maintain themselves at a reasonable level of nutrition . |
| 39 | At independence governments for the most part gave them preference over entrepreneurs from immigrant groups . |
| 40 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 41 | In the urban areas , where a third of Africa 's population will soon live , tribal loyalties will for the most part diminish , but will for many years exist in parallel with other loyalties . |
| 42 | For the most part , the scale of production will not expand into larger-scale corporate enterprises because of the cultural factors which make larger-scale business organization difficult throughout Africa . |
| 43 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | For the most part , however , the legacy of the movement remained less obviously political , and restricted in its appeal to fairly specific audiences in the cultural milieu and especially the visual arts . |
| 46 | There was a long-standing tradition of professionalism , which centred around jockeys and pugilists for the most part . |
| 47 | ‘ Obedient servants ’ they have been called , and that for the most part is just what they were . |
| 48 | The Royal corps of Transport is responsible , for the most part , for the provision of land transport to support the Army 's logistics needs . |
| 49 | Feeding soldiers is not a glamorous business ; for the most part it is an administrative function that goes unnoticed . |
| 50 | But for the most part he was , in Lewis 's eyes , an ‘ idle prig ’ who wasted his time cultivating well-born families and pretty boys and visiting exotic churches . |
| 51 | And their suffering goes unreported and , for the most part , ignored . |
| 52 | For the most part , Hollywood has set the agenda . |
| 53 | And the production of numerous low-budget pictures stimulated by the Cinematograph Act of 1927 — passed to get the film industry moving again — was treated , for the most part , not as an opportunity to experiment with new styles and cultivate new talent , but as an occasion for allowing mediocrities to make low-budget versions of Hollywood pictures . |
| 54 | British filmmaking ticked over during the 1950s , for the most part without any great ambition , or yen for artistic adventure . |
| 55 | Finance was on a film-by-film basis for the most part , with assistance coming from the new National Film Finance Corporation . |
| 56 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |
| 57 | Howard Primary School , landing at Cambridge University Observatory , found time for a ballet of the night-sky to a background of synthesizer and a resourceful battery of percussion ; and although improvisation and rhythm ( rap a firm favourite ) pushed melody to one side for the most part , Ixworth middle school beguiled the time outside Colman 's Mustard Shop in Norwich with a garland of song . |
| 58 | New ideas and working methods are beginning , for the most part , to revitalise the system — introducing competition for talent , and forcing broadcasters towards greater efficiency and realistic accounting . |
| 59 | Weary of Israel 's ceaseless importuning , it recently produced a long and scholarly ‘ confidential report ’ which concludes that , since Arafat told the UN General Assembly last December that he recognised Israel 's right to exist and ‘ renounced ’ terrorism , the PLO has not been speaking with ‘ forked tongues ’ and its declarations have ‘ for the most part been consistent , regardless of the media in which they appear . ’ |
| 60 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |