Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : In the former case an invoice for the goods or services supplied has been received whereas in the latter no invoice has been received at the time the accounts are drawn up therefore an estimate of the amount owing for the goods or services provided is made . |
| 2 | Suitable buildings are being considered but no final agreement has been reached at the time of going to press . |
| 3 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |
| 4 | The organisers stress that the choice of exhibits has been governed by the time and place of execution of the works that brought the artists into the limelight before World War I. Between 1905 and 1914 , in Dresden , Munich and Berlin the ‘ key figures of the modern movement ’ of the title Heckel , Kirchner , Schmidt-Rottluff , Pechstein , Mueller , Nolde , Jawlensky , Kandinsky , Marc , Macke , Klee , Münter , Werefkin and Meidner were the driving force behind Expressionism . |
| 5 | The light from the big bang , though , has come much farther — it has been travelling since the time , less than 1m years after the moment of creation , when the universe became thin enough for radiation emitted by one atom to be unlikely to hit another . |
| 6 | The national curriculum guidance which has been issued at the time of writing on the two core subjects of mathematics and science shows a welcome emphasis on statements of attainment rather than testing . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry ’ , said the Christie 's receptionist , ‘ but the Sackler sale has been cancelled for the time being … |
| 8 | So far , little has been published on the time trends for anal cancer , probably because of the limited access to long term data and those truly representative of populations . |
| 9 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 10 | He has been described by The Times as ‘ the key figure among Labour 's communications advisers ’ . |
| 11 | So far all the work on policy optimisation procedures has been restricted to the time domain . |
| 12 | They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course . |