Example sentences of "time have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Parliamentary time has been made for the Bill and for amendment of the 1984 legislation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But even within the UK the popularity of bank financing over time has been affected by a variety of factors . |
| 10 | The complementary expression for the effect of the mass distribution on time has been given in eqn ( 2.2 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the past , question time has been regarded as an effective method of pressing ministers . |
| 13 | A new leaflet aimed at young people starting work for the first time has been produced by the Inland Revenue . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This period of time has been described as a period of consensus . |
| 16 | Since Bains an increasing amount of chief officers ' time has been devoted to liaison with other departmental heads to formulate corporate strategies . |
| 17 | Much criminological time has been devoted to explaining which route is taken and why . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Where there are attendance notes on the file to show accurately how much time has been spent on a particular task then that time will be allowed on taxation . |
| 22 | If adequate time has been spent at the design stage , the construction of files holds few major problems . |
| 23 | Er well er a l a lot of my time has been spent in another context er as Secretary of er Residents Against the Motorway which is er an all-party thing er but we 've er we 've also taken some action as er a political party as well in that er fairly early on sixth of July ninety two er we we wrote to er Nick Harvey who is er MP who is our Transport Spokesman er and we gave him some er initial details er of the scheme er to which he er replied erm reminding us of what we knew already which was the Lib Dems ' transport pali policy in application to roads . |
| 24 | Her 40-year career began at Whitby , but nearly all that time has been spent in Teesside hospitals , including senior positions at Middlesbrough General , Poole and North Ormesby . |
| 25 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 28 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 29 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 30 | The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street . |