Example sentences of "time have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to be extra vigilant at all times has been stressed by terminal operations manager Roy Beardall following a security alert at Sullom Voe in August . |
| 2 | The Times had been reduced from being the ‘ top people 's paper ’ to running a form of bingo based on stock-market prices . |
| 3 | Product lead times have been cut in half from 30 days to under 13 days . |
| 4 | On Wednesdays , firms advertising vacancies in the Financial Times have been inundated with phone calls from licensed dealers . |
| 5 | Pulse arrival times have been recorded by Taylor and his colleagues over extended periods during the last 15 years . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The next periods after the Neolithic were the Bronze Age and Iron Age , although nothing of these times have been discovered at Halling it is almost certain the area of the village was occupied . |
| 8 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 9 | Near Moscow many unnecessary objects of olden times have been put under restoration orders . |
| 10 | CLAIMS that waiting list times have been slashed at Bishop Auckland General Hospital were yesterday greeted with scepticism by the town 's MP . |
| 11 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Allowing play to continue for an hour if such time has been lost during the day is splendid ; but the idea must be extended to ensure that any time lost up to that hour is added on . |
| 14 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |
| 15 | Parliamentary time has been made for the Bill and for amendment of the 1984 legislation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The study of volcanoes in space and time has been advocated by Clapperton ( 1972 ) to build a bridge between volcanology and volcanic geomorphology which would be analogous to these fields developed in glacial and in fluvial geomorphology . |
| 19 | But even within the UK the popularity of bank financing over time has been affected by a variety of factors . |
| 20 | The complementary expression for the effect of the mass distribution on time has been given in eqn ( 2.2 ) . |
| 21 | Vienna at this time has been immortalised in Carol Reed 's brilliant 1949 film The Third Man based on Graham Greene 's novel in which a drug trafficker , played by Orson Welles , manages to elude the police by crossing from one zone of the city to another via the network of underground sewers . |
| 22 | In the past , question time has been regarded as an effective method of pressing ministers . |
| 23 | A new leaflet aimed at young people starting work for the first time has been produced by the Inland Revenue . |
| 24 | Reaction time has been found to be extended in cases of brain damage ( Costa , 1962 ) and it may reasonably be thought that latency to respond is related to the degree of damage . |
| 25 | This period of time has been described as a period of consensus . |
| 26 | Since Bains an increasing amount of chief officers ' time has been devoted to liaison with other departmental heads to formulate corporate strategies . |
| 27 | Much criminological time has been devoted to explaining which route is taken and why . |
| 28 | Now so much more time has been released for us to be the church but at the same time we have nowhere to hide and nothing to blame ! |
| 29 | One of the major chain stores has calculated that their own management time has been reduced by 80% as they are now only involved in inspecting the finished result of the cleaning operation . |
| 30 | Although a lot of research has been devoted to understanding negative emotions such as anxiety or depression , very little time has been spent on finding out what makes people happy . |