Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
| 2 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 3 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
| 4 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 5 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 6 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 7 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 8 | A Bosnian art gallery , which has been bombed nine times since the civil war started , has been recreated in Cheltenham . |
| 9 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 10 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 11 | The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines . |
| 12 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 13 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 14 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 15 | The case for clinician involvement has been rehearsed many times and is taken as established here . |
| 16 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 17 | Sun executives say the issue of Sun chief executive officer Scott McNealy giving up his other post as president of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , Sun 's systems planet ( UX No 433 ) , has been raised many times and never acted on . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 19 | But , in my opinion , oil painting is far from perfect : it darkens , it needs to be restored , any painting on show has generally been restored countless times and is no longer the painting that the artist originally created . |
| 20 | The Jewish cemetery in Berlin 's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker 's hostels , and known meeting places of the ‘ left ’ — bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses . |
| 21 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 22 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 23 | A British Cox 's apple may have been sprayed 12 times and dipped in fungicide before it reaches your fruit bowl . |
| 24 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 25 | As long ago as 1915 Scott published the first research on interviews showing that 6 personnel managers could not agree about a common set of applicants , a finding that has been replicated innumerable times and will be reflected in the personal experience of most interviewers . |
| 26 | Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again . |
| 27 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 28 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 29 | Their design had been changed several times before they were finally erected . |