Example sentences of "have been [prep] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 2 | There has been for some time in Africa debate concerning the suitability for the Eucharist of wheat bread and grape wine . |
| 3 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 4 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 6 | ‘ And where d' you think you 've been to this time of night ? ’ |
| 7 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |