Example sentences of "been in [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 2 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |
| 3 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 4 | I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions . |
| 5 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 6 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 7 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |