Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] at some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 2 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 3 | It is known to have been held at some time ‘ on a Thursday with only four people there ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 7 | The serial numbers suggest that a large number had been issued at some time , the rate from Craven Arms to Bishop 's Castle was ¼d as against 1/11d for an ordinary Third Class ticket . |
| 8 | In 1987 , 233 had been admitted at some time into the prison hospital . |
| 9 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |