Example sentences of "[art] time have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times had been reduced from being the ‘ top people 's paper ’ to running a form of bingo based on stock-market prices . |
| 2 | The times have been hard on you , these last weeks . |
| 3 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 4 | The most detailed of these came from Wilshere , who said that most of the time had been taken up by the medical evidence — summarised with a wealth of detail ( which will not be repeated here ) . |
| 5 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 6 | The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough . |
| 7 | We shall be told that the time has been equally shared between the three parties , but there are many ways of belling the cat , and the timing of the viewpoints and the batting order can achieve the results they intend . |
| 8 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 9 | If they can not see where the time has been recorded the time will not normally be allowed . |
| 10 | ‘ All the back-slapping and thanks at the time have been forgotten . |
| 11 | Although only a few of the sources of political controversy of the time have been touched upon , enough has been said to demonstrate that people could not be immune from the implications of political decisions taken at Westminster or St James 's . |
| 12 | War may once upon a time have been a reasonably satisfactory , or at least not utterly unsatisfactory way of securing certain kinds of social change . |
| 13 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 14 | Also , coins seem for a time to have been minted in his name in Sigtuna ( on Lake Mälar , near modern Stockholm ) with the title REX SW ( king of Swedes ) , by a moneyer who had earlier struck for Anund Jacob . |
| 15 | if he does not signify his approval or acceptance to the seller but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection , then if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods , on expiration of that time and , if no time has been fixed , on the expiration of a reasonable time . ’ |
| 16 | At 8.30 , the cyclist was arriving at the finish , the motorbike had arrived 5 mins before ( but note , no time had been taken in finding a parking place , which would normally be the case ) ; the car was at the Morrison St — Lothian Road junction , and the bus had taken ten minutes to reach George IV Bridge , less than a mile . |
| 17 | Anyway it 's nice to know that no time has been wasted though I do n't imagine there will be much energy left for the Finer Things . |
| 18 | if he does not signify his approval or acceptance to the seller but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection , then if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods , on expiration of that time and , if no time has been fixed , on the expiration of a reasonable time . ’ |