Example sentences of "be for much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 2 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 3 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 4 | In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence . |
| 5 | And the forecast for tonight is for much more snow . ’ |
| 6 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |