Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 32 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 33 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 34 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 35 | The keys must have been lost for some time . |
| 36 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 37 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 38 | That 's right and he , we would have done the same if we 'd have found six men in there , er they all would have been secured until such time as I was happy that the the flat was clear . |
| 39 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 40 | The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too . |
| 41 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 42 | The result , stretching west from Hedeby , whose semicircular defences also seem to have been renewed at this time , was a rampart over eight miles long , about thirteen yards wide , and nearly ten feet high , not counting the wooden palisade with which it was presumably crowned . |
| 43 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 44 | It is one of the most substantial ( 371 pages ) reconsiderations of the man and his music to have been published for some time and , although it is not easy reading , it is a stimulating book which opera producers in particular should keep handy . |
| 45 | It is known to have been held at some time ‘ on a Thursday with only four people there ’ . |
| 46 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 47 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 48 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 49 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 50 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 51 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 52 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 53 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 54 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 55 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 56 | There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere . |
| 57 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 58 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 59 | ‘ The house had been neglected for some time , ’ explains Pauline . |
| 60 | This problem in combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle had been suspected for some time , but was finally confirmed by detailed calculations in 1972 . |