Example sentences of "for the most part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 2 | Nicholsons ' pubs for the most part are architectural gems in their own right and include The Blackfriar and The Argyll Arms in Central London and the Prince Alfred in Maida Vale amongst their number . |
| 3 | For the most part , they are self-taught . |
| 4 | Twenty-two athletes spend five days for the most part watching their teammates do all the work , and at the end of it all , everyone is quite happy to settle for a draw . |
| 5 | Each evening I reported to Anne , keeping it light for the most part . |
| 6 | I spend a great deal of my time in the Community ; Brussels and Luxembourg for the most part . |
| 7 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 8 | They were also , for the most part , practising poets and men of letters , who would want to make judgements . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |
| 13 | Even in the central Largo , for the most part sensitively played , he risked a quite unidiomatic accelerando which , miraculously , the orchestra paralleled . |
| 14 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 15 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
| 16 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 17 | For the most part Great Russians were fighting Great Russians , and in the process trampled over the lands of peasants , whether Russian , Belorussian , Ukrainian , etc. , none of whom was more inclined thereafter to feel particularly attracted to Muscovite patriotism . |
| 18 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |
| 19 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 20 | These efforts proved to be in vain for the most part . |
| 21 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 22 | Russian agriculture in early NEP was an involuntary small-scale transport industry which for the most part lay far away from the railway lines . |
| 23 | The route follows public footpaths and bridleways for the most part which are signed conventionally with yellow marks for footpaths , blue for bridleways . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 29 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 30 | 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 . |