Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [det] times before " in BNC.
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1 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
2 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
3 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
4 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
5 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
6 | Although this had been suggested many times before , Stuart was the first to succeed , and his work shaped the future of the extension system . |
7 | The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before . |