Example sentences of "[prep] time have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 2 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 3 | Special rules as to the acquisition of public rights of way by lapse of time have been made by the Rights of Way Act 1932 . |
| 4 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |
| 5 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 6 | This period of time has been described as a period of consensus . |
| 7 | In the East Grampian project , a considerable amount of time has been devoted to map compilation , incorporating university work with the results of the field surveys . |
| 8 | The notice of appeal , or application for leave to appeal , must be filed within four weeks of the date the judgment was entered , unless an extension of time has been allowed either by the county court or the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 10 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 11 | 1.6 " the Premises " means the part of the Site described in the Second Schedule together with such of the Works and the Tenant 's Works as may from time to time have been carried out on the Premises This describes the premises which are to be demised to the tenant and which will include the tenant 's works and possibly also the landlord 's works where alterations or refurbishment works have been carried out to the premises by the landlord . |
| 12 | The complementary expression for the effect of the mass distribution on time has been given in eqn ( 2.2 ) . |
| 13 | But even within the UK the popularity of bank financing over time has been affected by a variety of factors . |
| 14 | The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The trend over time has been for Britain to become less important ( in US eyes ) than Europe as a collective , ’ Robert Hunter , vice-president of the Centre of Strategic and International Studies , told the Washington Times . |
| 16 | However , the Prime Minister , Petre Roman , admitted that the miners at times had been out of control and had committed violence against innocent people , although he supported their mobilization to aid the government . |
| 17 | Hope reined himself in , pulled back from the edge of his desperation , ‘ … at times have been led to think that way . ’ |
| 18 | Conversely , natural monopolies in the public sector which at times have been instructed to use marginal cost pricing will almost inevitably make losses . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many of the views that I have expressed in the House , which at times have been received with ridicule and dismay , have become law subsequently ? |
| 20 | Similarly those reporting on their negotiations with the British may at times have been tempted to exaggerate their success . |
| 21 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 22 | Indeed , the internal acrimony levelled against him at times has been such that , when his departure was announced , the best that some figures within the health network could say was ‘ we 'll be very happy to wish him goodbye ’ . |