Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [num] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 2 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 3 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 4 | For instance , the fine against a player ranked in the top 4 in the world has been increased five times from $20,000 to £100,000 . |
| 5 | To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 . |
| 6 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 7 | This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament . |
| 8 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 9 | It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year . |
| 10 | Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance . |
| 11 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 12 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 13 | The boy has been arrested 37 times in the last 11 months . |
| 14 | One youth , still 17 , has been arrested 48 times in 2 years . |
| 15 | George Scott , Winston 's brother , has been arrested three times in the last three months , and Mark Braithwaite 's brother Gregory is stopped and questioned constantly . |
| 16 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 17 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | I have more reason than most to do that , having been shot 10 times by the IRA . |
| 19 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 20 | Among its main points were : * the total emissions from ICI plants of pollutants to land , air and water fell from 8.6 million tonnes in 1990 to 8.3 million tons in 1991 ( down 3.7 per cent ) ; * the company had been prosecuted 36 times in 1990 and 26 times in 1991 for environmental offences , with the number of prosecutions falling in every country of operation with the exception of Britain ; * production of hazardous waste fell from 678 tonnes in 1990 to 476 tonnes in 1991 ( down 29.8 per cent ) ; * the amounts of " non-hazardous " waste dumped in landfills and in the North Sea increased , from 3,509 tons to 3,565 tons and from 150 to 170 tons respectively ; * overall energy consumption fell by 6 per cent in 1991 ( partly due to the sale of 20 subsidiaries and falling product sales ) ; * the company 's expenditure on environment-related projects reached £300 million in 1991 . |
| 21 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 22 | ( A century earlier , one unfortunate individual had been imprisoned twelve times in a year — one month at a time — under the local Act . ) |
| 23 | The word ‘ grammar ’ , for example , had been inserted seven times without any indication of exactly what it implied . |
| 24 | Working in the very competitive insurance industry , principally at Lloyd 's , he had been approached four times by four different headhunting firms , only one of whose names he remembered ( one of the smaller UK-based consultancies ) . |
| 25 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 26 | Most herds are tested for TB every three years but the Rowes ' cattle have been tested 14 times in the last five years . |
| 27 | Interest rates have been cut eight times since last October . |
| 28 | We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’ |
| 29 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |