Example sentences of "it have been [verb] several time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 2 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 3 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 4 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 5 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 6 | It has been reprinted several times , beginning in 1910 . |
| 7 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 8 | Well another question — it 's been put several times on this programme — it 's something like this — Councillors have just been considering cuts in budgets that will affect the voters . |