Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [vb pp] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fishermen were so concerned for its welfare that they closed the lake for the remainder of the season , and the fish has since been spotted several times , fully recovered . |
| 2 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 3 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 4 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 5 | The potential for font mismatching has now been raised many times . |
| 6 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |
| 7 | The referendum , first scheduled for November 1991 , had already been postponed several times [ see pp. 38227 ; 38424 ; 38565 ; 38663 ] . |
| 8 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 9 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 10 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |