Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare works for an estate agent so far up-market it 's mostly estates they deal in , not humble houses , no matter how extensive ; if it does n't boast a couple of salmon rivers , a few square miles of trees and a brace of hills , lochs or lakes , then they just are n't interested . |
| 2 | It was mostly merchants who lived here , but notwithstanding their love of luxury , their houses were gloomy inside . |
| 3 | I was n't sure it was a girl , at first , what with the shapeless and grimly robe she wore — ankle-length , made of coarse brown cloth — and the heavy oversized boots in which she was clumping along . |
| 4 | Right Jim we 've gone through the er planning the future form there this evening , erm what do you think of it ? |
| 5 | I use Amway cleaning , laundry , personal care , etc. products myself because I feel that they are the BEST environmentally — friendly , cruelty-free products available . |
| 6 | Doctor Martin Novak 's team believes the virus does n't lie dormant as had been thought up till now , but rather copies itself or mutates . |
| 7 | He raised his voice and shouted , through the loo door , presumably , " YES DARLING , 0F COURSE I 'M WAITING ! " — and then to me , in a tormented undertone : " And so are the Press , I know , I know — they must be ready to eat me for lunch . |
| 8 | For the most part everybody likes a child , and nearly every child likes everybody — ’ At this point , Joey 's voice was heard to croon quietly . |
| 9 | For the most part they contented themselves with the material evidence available in the form of bones and artefacts , yet even when they began to observe living animals good behavioural description did not expose the factors that transformed the infrahuman primate society into a human one . |
| 10 | For the most part they were unskilled , underpaid and underfed and most of them were here during the thirty-minute refreshment break in the middle of the day because there was a good chance they could stretch that break into an hour at least . |
| 11 | For the most part they are unambitious publications , serving primarily the clientele of their own clearinghouses and reporting local activity . |
| 12 | In 1920 Alexander married the actress Edith Page , a fellow Australian , but his marriage was not particularly happy and for the most part they lived apart . |
| 13 | What is immediately obvious is that the agreements are all in the southwest or the north of England and that for the most part they are flat rivers . |
| 14 | For the most part they had been one of Europe 's invisible , historyless , subject peoples . |
| 15 | ‘ As though princes , so young as they be , could not play without their peers , or children without their kindred — with whom for the most part they agree worse than with strangers ! ’ |
| 16 | For the most part they consisted of small groups of people meeting in homes . |
| 17 | But for the most part they had been undisturbed in their magic island or resort that was closed to others but which they could leave when they pleased . |
| 18 | There are a few serious black runs , but for the most part they are ideal for beginners and intermediate skiers . |
| 19 | ‘ My experience of Christian missions has proved that they may be very good at saving souls , or bodies if they 're medical missions , but for the most part they 're not very good at business . |
| 20 | They are men who rationally weigh up the advantage of conformity to criminal demands or staying on the path of righteousness ; for the most part they choose the former simply because it does not weigh on their conscience and because it seems more likely to secure economic and career advancement within the corporation . |
| 21 | For the most part they would n't speak at all even if threatened . |
| 22 | For the most part they will suffice in the cichlid tank . |
| 23 | For the most part they are confined there by the same spell which draws the magic to Ulthuan , but some things manage to find their way down to ravage the lands below . |
| 24 | Presidents , on the other hand , can rarely issue plausible , self-executing commands ; for the most part they must persuade rather than order other political actors to do what they want them to do . |
| 25 | For the most part they retain their simple annular form , the terga and sterna are generally undivided shields , while the pleura are membranous and usually without differentiated sclerites . |
| 26 | For the most part they comprise various types of bag , hangings and camel — or donkey-trappings made by nomadic and semi-nomadic tribesmen for their own personal use . |
| 27 | Only occasionally under Edward I and his successor were these corrodians clerks ; for the most part they comprised king 's messengers , serjeants , ushers , cooks , laundresses , keepers of hounds , and the sick and injured . |
| 28 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 29 | For the most part they took over existing routes , though in the hillier parts of the country they were responsible for the making of entirely new stretches of road where the older roads tackled gradients suitable only for foot-passengers and pack-horses . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |