Example sentences of "has been [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | West of the village centre are vast quarries from which granite has been taken since Roman times . |
| 32 | A Labour campaign document championed the ‘ traditional values and firm foundations of the mid-Staffordshire way of life ’ and complained that its ‘ serenity … has been shattered in recent times ’ by crime . |
| 33 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 34 | That it has been populated from prehistoric times is evidenced by the remains of neolithic buildings , mainly on Hirta , the largest island in the group . |
| 35 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 36 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 37 | The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints . |
| 38 | the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation |
| 39 | Waugh 's ‘ senile slobber ’ against Eliot — he as good as called Eliot ‘ a drunken helot ’ — has been remarked on several times , notably in his son Evelyn 's autobiography , A Little Learning . |
| 40 | Much of the research and theory which has informed our educational methodology has been superseded in recent times both in psychology and linguistics . |
| 41 | In order to standardize all these local times , the worlds has been divided into 24 time zones — each spanning 15 ° longitude . |
| 42 | Claire paddles away at buttons on telephone , scours desk for material to take to meeting ( 3.00 p.m. , the worst ) gets hung up fielding call from incandescent client wanting to know why contract has been mis-drafted for third time in succession … |
| 43 | The medical journals still present a variety of possible remedies , many of which sound most desperate and bizarre missionaries report from China that they have been cured by having needles stuck into their bellies and arms , yet this is not thought too strange to mention … and almost every variety of chemical substance has been proposed at one time or another , all of which is a sure sign that our profession remains baffled by this disease . " |
| 44 | Steve Pope of Dereham , Norfolk , has been concentrating in recent times on improving the radio fit in Sugar and a number of boxes have been found on the shelves at the Museum 's store and restoration facility at Cardington . |
| 45 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |
| 46 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 47 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 48 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 49 | God 's plan is held to be comprehensive , and has been set for all time . |
| 50 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 51 | The cost of the next stage after JET has been put at five times the cost of the Culham experiment and this would suggest the need for even wider collaboration . |
| 52 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
| 53 | The cathedral has been enlarged in later times around this chapel which is now a central feature in the architectural mass ( 255 ) . |
| 54 | The new sales office has been established for some time , as has the computer system connected on direct line to the main processor at Elderslie . |
| 55 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 56 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 57 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 58 | Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time . |
| 59 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 60 | Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally . |