Example sentences of "[v-ing] for most " in BNC.
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| 1 | A European Community ( EC ) plan was drafted for Hunosa allowing for most job losses to be covered by early retirement on full pay until the age of 68 or by natural job shrinkage . |
| 2 | The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods . |
| 3 | Now watch this , as we go through the tack the sail is driving for most of the time just flapping briefly as the sail turns through the wind . |
| 4 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 5 | After all , Japan had democratic structures and procedures , as well as a far higher standard of living for most of its people . |
| 6 | And so , very the onus would be would they not , the three things that we 're looking for most of the time . |
| 7 | Although each patch would have a back-up long-term hostel , it was intended that the mental health centres should take over the role of caring for most people with longer-term difficulties . |
| 8 | The course , designed and built to competition standard , proved testing for most . |
| 9 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 10 | And in its $1.7 billion purchase of Stauffer , another American chemicals firm , in 1987 it did a passable impersonation of Hanson , paying for most of the bid with $1.15 billion of asset sales . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was assured , though , that this time is seldom adhered to , with most visitors remaining for most of the afternoon . |
| 13 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |
| 14 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 15 | The societies , plus Abbey National — which became a bank when it floated in 1989 — currently have a market share of about 85% , with banks and centralised lenders such as The Mortgage Corporation accounting for most of the remaining 15% . |
| 16 | In all , more than one in eight of all temporary workers were participants in special measures , with a job creation scheme — the Community Programme — accounting for most of those aged 20 or above . |
| 17 | Feare ( 1967 , 1970a ) found C. maritima to be the most important predator of young dog-whelks at Robin Hood 's Bay in the winter of 1965–66 , accounting for most of the 90% juvenile mortality . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The 13 kilometre line is still open , running for most of its length over the River Wüpper . |
| 20 | ‘ Let 'em sweat a bit ; Washington 's a key career posting for most of them , it ca n't all bc cherry blossom and cocktails . |
| 21 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 22 | When auditioning for most schools you will be asked to present at least two contrasting speeches and possibly give some idea of your attitude to improvisation and , perhaps , to singing . |
| 23 | GROSVENOR had to settle for a point from a Section II encounter with Mid Antrim despite dominating for most of the 70 minutes . |
| 24 | Dominating for most of the tie , Eppleton had to wait until the 47th minute before Neil Scott forced a way through a resolute Cleadon defence . |
| 25 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 26 | Working for most of her life in a nursery-garden , Leapor 's own labour was particularly associated with what Barrell calls the content of landscape . |
| 27 | It will see a new way of working for most staff . |
| 28 | It will see a new way of working for most staff . |
| 29 | Standard Chartered in London , understood to have around £300million on loan to Mr Bond , declined to comment , although it is understood executives are confident of the asset backing for most of the exposure . |