This is of God's bounty towards us and towards mankind: but the greater part of mankind are not thankful.
Thou wast not present with Joseph's brethren when they conceived their design and laid their plot: but the greater part of men, though thou long for it, will not believe.
This is the right Faith, but the greater partof men know it not.
We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is between them in sport: We have not created them but for a serious end:7 but the greater part of them understand it not.
At the present day the best castor comes from Russia, but the greater part of that found in shops is the produce of Canada.
They were subsequently driven out by the Sithones, but the greater part of them collected together into a single city, namely, Olynthus.
There are few of them who don't come for meal; but the greater part of the men at Dunrossness are generally in good circumstances, and have the command of money, and they generally buy their meal in Lerwick, or where they can get it cheapest.
I sell them wherever I can get them sold, but the greater part of them are sold wholesale; that is, we sell them wholesale to retail dealers.
There may be a few who do nothing but knit, but the greater part of the girls and women who employ themselves at knitting have other work to do besides.
But the greater part, the president trusted, would take root in the hearts of the people; and he patiently waited for the harvest.
But the greater part of the Inca's forces mustered along the fields that lined the road, and were spread over the broad meadows as far as the eye could reach.
But the greater part of the colony consisted of invalids, men whose health had been broken by their previous hardships, but who still, with a stout and willing heart, did good service in their military post on the sea-coast.
On the hill, not far off, prehistoric tombs with interesting objects have been found; but the greater part of the finds have been sent to more important museums.
Upon the door the date of 1785 is cut, but the greater part of the walls with their machicolations belongs to a reconstruction of the ancient castle in the fifteenth century.
There are also some other kinds, but the greater part of them are unknown, or of little importance to foreigners.
The feathers are preserved for exportation: the flesh is partly eaten fresh, but the greater part is dried for winter's provision.
On the east side of the piazza stands a great number of marble pillars, some perfect, but the greater part mutilated.
The Cretaceous beds lie in a broad synclinal upon the eastern flank, but the greater part of the chain is formed of Jurassic beds, through which, on the western margin, rise the numerous andesitic volcanic centres.
A small part bordering the Venezuelan sierras is elevated and mountainous, but the greater part forms an immense alluvial plain, densely wooded, traversed by innumerable rivers, and subjected to extensive annual inundations.
The book contains rules for the conduct of the anchoresses, and gives liturgical directions for divine service; but the greater part of it is taken up with the purely spiritual side of religion.
There are upwards of twenty-five of these pits or wells, but the greater part of them are abandoned and overgrown with shrubs.
But the greater part of European governments have been incapable of those attentions.
But the greater part of men are not very frequently under the influence of those passions; and the very worst men are so only occasionally.
But the greater part of the metal escapes with the gas, in a state of combination not well understood.
Several colouring baths are made in the cold; and they serve to dye also in the cold; but the greater part require a heat of 90 deg.
It dissolves in 88 parts of boiling water, but the greater part of the salt crystallizes in small needles, as the solution cools.
The infidels say, Unless some sign be sent down unto him from his LORD, we will not believe: answer, Verily GOD is able to send down a sign: but the greater part of them know it not.
And GOD said unto them, Die; then he restored them to life, for GOD is gracious towards mankind; but the greater part of men do not give thanks.
And if they who have received the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them,c but the greater part of them are transgressors.
But the greater part of the present church was erected early in the twelfth century, though the choir was re-constructed about two centuries afterwards.
A crypt belongs to a building erected soon after the Norman Conquest, but the greater part of the present structure is Early English, and very beautiful work of its kind, being begun about 1225.
Here many troops were in bivouac and thousands of wounded were gathered in hospital tents by the roadside, but the greater part of them lay around in the fields or woods without shelter of any kind.
The bullets began to whistle spitefully about our ears now; some struck the ground in front of us, raising the dust, but the greater part of them went above our heads.
A large number fell into his hands in consequence of this manoeuvre; but the greater part of those who escaped the sword succeeded in throwing themselves into Gaeta.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but the greater part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
