Example sentences of "have [verb] for most " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of Environment also announced yesterday that it had abandoned the system it has used for most of the past 10 years to channel extra housing cash into the 57 worst affected inner-city areas . |
| 2 | In reality what American television has become for most people around the world is an endless series of detective programmes , game shows , chat shows and soaps of every variety . |
| 3 | Kevin Seymour , a 43-year-old architect who has cruised for most of his life , was one of the serious sailors attracted to these tough little cruisers . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it is the growth of white-collar employment which has accounted for most of the expansion of the upper middle class . |
| 5 | The political environment in which Western academic studies of the Soviet Union have had to operate for most of the post-war period was built around several widely share assumptions ; that the USSR was a ‘ threat ’ , that socialism was a failure , that the Soviet state was incapable of rational modernisation . |
| 6 | Many will have learned that the kind of job that they will probably have to do for most of their working life will be semi-skilled , routine , undemanding , and tedious . |
| 7 | The issue of whether female relatives — or anyone else — would provide unpaid care for relatives simply would never have arisen for most people . |
| 8 | That 's what you 've come for most of you you see . |
| 9 | An air of hesitancy had prevailed for most of the day as the City waited nervously for the Budget . |
| 10 | I 've struggled for most of my career , and would n't have survived without self-belief . |
| 11 | He had become for most a distant , shadowy figure , only seldom to be seen now in newsreels , hardly ever speaking to the nation , and no longer being seen in public . |
| 12 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 14 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |
| 15 | He hopes that the cohesion and character which England have shown for most of the last 11 months will bridge the gap in sheer talent which will continue to separate the two teams . |
| 16 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |