Example sentences of "have [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 . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance . |
| 9 | Life , in fact , would have been impossible for most higher forms , with only the hardiest microbes surviving . |
| 10 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 11 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 12 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |
| 13 | But almost all the men and women in your Home have been active for most of their lives . |