Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adj] for most " in BNC.
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| 1 | This facility has been available for most of the season running on certain days of the week using a vintage bus supplied by the Wilts and Dorset Bus Company . |
| 2 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
| 3 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
| 4 | The Burford to Bibury road has been awash for most of the afternoon . |
| 5 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 6 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
| 7 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |