Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 2 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 3 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
| 4 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
| 5 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 6 | The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time . |
| 7 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 8 | The windows of the Methodist Church adjoining the playing field have been broken numerous times . |
| 9 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 10 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 11 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 12 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 13 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
| 14 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
| 15 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
| 16 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 17 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 18 | Beveridge 's scheme was not , as has been stressed many times , revolutionary . |
| 19 | It does n't distress the birds too much , some are caught 5 times in a week . |
| 20 | It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized . |
| 21 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 22 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 23 | The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times . |
| 24 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 25 | What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist . |
| 26 | Moreover , despite the lack of artefacts , the bath-house at Catterick had been heavily used to judge by the state of the furnace cheeks , which had been rebuilt several times , and of the iron beams supporting the hot-water boilers , one of which had been completely burnt through . |
| 27 | He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension . |
| 28 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 29 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 30 | Working in the very competitive insurance industry , principally at Lloyd 's , he had been approached four times by four different headhunting firms , only one of whose names he remembered ( one of the smaller UK-based consultancies ) . |