Example sentences of "been [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Mr Pilkington , of Clevegate , Nunthorpe , Middlesbrough , is a crossword fanatic who has twice been The Times ' national champion . |
| 2 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 3 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 4 | Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies . |
| 5 | The real barrier has been the time spent apart , he says . |
| 6 | The extra ten minutes had probably only been the time it had taken them to find him . |
| 7 | For years , this has been the time when small bands of mushroom pickers wander through the forests . |
| 8 | This may have been the time when Nero and his advisers were concerned about Britain . |
| 9 | This would also have been the time for naked women on horseback to lead the community out into the fields , bearing symbols of fertility to ensure a plentiful harvest . |
| 10 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 11 | There had been the time , too , when Ruth made a painting of a dragon devouring a knight which had apparently scared another child . |
| 12 | The model for southeast England has been refined and developed and one reason for its modification has been the time allocated to mid-Tertiary earth movements as it was appreciated that these ‘ outer ripples of the Alpine storm ’ may have continued for longer than was at first envisaged . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's never been the time . ’ |
| 14 | We did walk somewhere one time and erm very very nice the it must have been the time when the salmon were riverside walk . |
| 15 | While studying spinning in Huddersfield ( as part of her degree course in textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic ) there had been no time for her to try out the machine , so the then sceptical technician told her to come back later . |
| 16 | There has been no time in British history when this has ever occurred , although from time to time insurrectionary events , such as the Jacobite risings and Chartism , have appeared to threaten the Establishment . |
| 17 | There had been no time to attempt to flee , or even to struggle ; hundreds simply died in their tracks . |
| 18 | Going to sleep or opening a book : an old garden , a childish fear , a face seen casually and quickly forgotten , would take possession of my mind as if there had been no time between . |
| 19 | That there had been no time to prepare for a gradual hand-over of power , to make plans for social , political , economic and military integration , only made things worse . |
| 20 | As there had been no time for it to be considered , the hearing was adjourned until November 1990 . |
| 21 | But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive . |
| 22 | There had been no time for a cup of coffee and she 'd eaten nothing the night before , going straight to her cabin . |
| 23 | There would have been no time for another member of the crew to try to take over the controls . |
| 24 | In the rush of their departure , there had been no time to buy her a new one . |
| 25 | For he could not have had to look far for whatever it might be , there had been no time for that . |
| 26 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 27 | It was first love — there had been no time for earlier romance because Nicandra was only eight on April 8th 1904 . |
| 28 | There had been no time to set about her hair , or her blue-white face , only enough time to make a delicious picnic and pack its basket into the boot of the car . |
| 29 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |
| 30 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |