Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for most " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |
| 2 | The noise this produces is greatly amplified for most of the abdomen behind the vibrating plate is also hollow and two large rectangular sections of the abdominal wall are stiffened to form resonators . |
| 3 | The law as so stated has , I think , been so understood for most of this century , at least at the level of the Court of Appeal ; but it has been the subject of increasing criticism by academic lawyers , and has been departed from in significant respects in some Commonwealth countries , both by legislation and by judicial development of the law . |
| 4 | The two City teams shared premises which housed social services and some health service staff ( the therapists but not , until late in the day , the CHMNs ) , but in Newark the social services and health service staff were separately housed for most of the study period . |
| 5 | These procedures are not without academic credentials ( Haynes 1980 : 102 — 7 ) , and describe the way most organisations have always behaved for most of the time . |
| 6 | This third type is the dominant constituent of the main cloud and also account for most of the opacity . |
| 7 | Those saying they would ‘ definitely ’ vote number 82 per cent of the total sample and probably account for most of those who will actually go to the polls during today . |
| 8 | Sterling was probably overvalued for most of the period from 1950 to 1967 , especially against the European and Japanese currencies [ Allsopp , 1979 ] . |
| 9 | It 's a great guitar , which I also used for most of the rhythm parts , but then the Les Pauls just took over ! ’ |
| 10 | The form of slave production and exploitation and subsequent colonial development of the West Indies has also ensured for most of the islands a fate similar to that of many modern African states : a form of ‘ peripheral ’ development in which individual economies are dominated by a very small number of cash crops , often the same as those cultivated under the original system of slavery , the income from which is dependent on world commodity prices subject to considerable fluctuation and open to manipulation by metropolitan powers ( Beckford , 1972 ) . |
| 11 | This is a traditional approach , and probably accounts for most vibrational spectra actually recorded . |
| 12 | He acknowledges he has learned from Porter 's writing on competitive advantage , but probably speaks for most of his peers when he says : ‘ I do n't read business texts written by academics for the purpose of discovering a direct application that I can use . |
| 13 | A 50 per cent wage rise was also decreed for most civil servants . |
| 14 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 15 | Similar constraints , many of them much more obvious , are routinely specified for most phonological variables ; for example / r/ is variably deleted in many dialects only pre-consonantally and word-finally . |
| 16 | Engine noise is very well subdued for most of the time , although the V6 does start to sound hoarse at high revs on the rate occasions that the automatic gearbox allows you access to them . |
| 17 | However , the central bank is virtually immobilised for most of April . |
| 18 | Not bad going for most in modern industrial times , but even more so for people like 28-year-old Ewan , from Hamilton , who has found a new job as a salesman . |
| 19 | It was for nitrate , one of the least concerns for most fishkeepers ( should it be I wonder ) but high on the list for marine fishkeepers who probably use mainly specialist outlets . |
| 20 | Skilfully planned for most of the year it is full of colour . |
| 21 | After barely moving for most of the 1980s , monthly rents on prime commercial properties in western Berlin suddenly leapt from DM28 at the end of 1989 to DM65 a year later , bubbling up on hopes — now dashed — that the Bundesbank would move to the city , and on speculation that it will eventually become Germany 's seat of government . |
| 22 | When you consider the life of Hannah Hauxwell and the privations she has quietly suffered for most of her life , it is reasonable to describe her as a true daughter of Balder . |