Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of work and employment to those with mental disorder has , however , been recognized since Victorian times . |
| 2 | Indeed , no major studies of evacuation due to hazards have been undertaken in recent times and this is a widely recognized deficiency which no research funding body seems willing to rectify . |
| 3 | The main interest of this church is in its interior mosaics because much of the building has been altered in later times . |
| 4 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 5 | This centre for the elderly has been broken into four times in two years . |
| 6 | This centre for people with special needs has been broken into four times in nine days . |
| 7 | In the last year his house has been broken into seven times , and burglars have tried to break in on at least another four occasions . |
| 8 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 9 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 10 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 11 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 12 | Since then , various parts have been occupied at different times by a multitude of smaller firms . |
| 13 | In considering the case of B Ltd , he stated that it was easier to conclude that the mezzanine platforms were plant as the four platforms had been installed at different times , covered only 60% of the floor area and one had actually been dismantled . |
| 14 | Much of the research and theory which has informed our educational methodology has been superseded in recent times both in psychology and linguistics . |
| 15 | A Labour campaign document championed the ‘ traditional values and firm foundations of the mid-Staffordshire way of life ’ and complained that its ‘ serenity … has been shattered in recent times ’ by crime . |
| 16 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 17 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |
| 18 | The little tern 's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage . |
| 19 | As a result of acquiring writing ‘ one can compare side by side utterances that have been made at different times and places ’ ( 1977 , pp. 11 — 12 ) . |
| 20 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 21 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 22 | the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation |
| 23 | Walnut , beech and deal have also been used at different times . |
| 24 | Milk and honey are just two kitchen cupboard stand-bys that have been used since ancient times in beauty routines , so give these recipes a go . |
| 25 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 26 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 27 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 28 | All other Palestinian higher-learning institutions had been reopened after having been closed at various times since the intifada started . |
| 29 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
| 30 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |