Example sentences of "been [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
| 32 | The Earth has been visited many times in its history , but it 's all been covered up . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | As has been said many times ( certainly by me ) , it is the easiest thing in the world to write a review of an unimportant book . |
| 35 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 36 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 37 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 38 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 39 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 40 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
| 41 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
| 46 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |
| 47 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 48 | It was an unfortunate British debut for Thompson , who has been overlooked several times by coach , Dennis Hay . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It has been reprinted several times , beginning in 1910 . |
| 51 | Ted Fleming 's original has been copied many times , always with appreciated success , so we have no hesitation in recommending it as a lifter for any parafauna that is within reasonable weight limits . |
| 52 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |
| 55 | In this article the word ‘ word-processor ’ has been used many times . |
| 56 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 57 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |
| 58 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 59 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 60 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |