Example sentences of "time [pers pn] has be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At other times it has been treated with apathy . |
| 2 | From earliest times it has been assumed that at least some dreams are important — bearing messages either from the gods or from the dreamer 's subconscious , depending upon one 's cultural context . |
| 3 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 4 | Four times it has been birdied for a one-stroke victory , the most impressive being Sandy Lyle 's wonderful second shot from sand in 1988 . |
| 5 | Sometimes the term has been applied to the linguistic habits of a particular writer ( " the style of Dickens , of Proust " , etc ) ; at other times it has been applied to the way language is used in a particular genre , period , school of writing , or some combination of these : " epistolary style " , " early eighteenth-century style " , " euphuistic style " , " the style of Victorian novels " , etc . |
| 6 | Yet from the earliest times it has been suggested that in the insane there is indeed a hint of genius and , by the same token , that originality demands a degree of lunacy . |
| 7 | The drawing number alone can tell one what size it is , where to find it , what product or process it describes , in how much detail , whether it is on micro-fiche , how many times it has been modified . |
| 8 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
| 9 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 10 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 11 | Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed . |
| 12 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 13 | It will be the first time the programme has ever been done outside London , and the first time it has been done in front of an audience . |
| 14 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
| 15 | The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled . |
| 16 | At the same time it has been lumbered by its parent bank with needlessly big headquarters in Tokyo 's most expensive rented building . |
| 17 | By the time it has been adzed out , you will only have a small edge to clean up as well as the underside . |
| 18 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 19 | A downhole flowmeter for measuring the flow rates and water cut was run in the well , the first time it has been used in the North Sea , although a prototype has been used at Wytch Farm . |
| 20 | This will not be the first time it has been tried , and the observations of one former planning official are worth quoting at length : |
| 21 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 22 | The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed . |
| 23 | All that time he has been kept going mainly by Russian hand-outs . |
| 24 | Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ . |
| 25 | During that time he has been pushing hard to make up any lost ground . |