Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general link has been mentioned several times . |
| 2 | The extensive literature on the complex issue of social support has been reviewed many times . |
| 3 | This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects . |
| 4 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 5 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 6 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The boy has been arrested 37 times in the last 11 months . |
| 9 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 10 | Now the angry owner , whose home has been burgled four times this year , is offering a £500 reward for information . |
| 11 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 12 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 13 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 14 | The process of management and the functions of management have been analysed many times in various ways by different writers , who have taken the view that : |
| 15 | To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 . |
| 16 | The tree has been removed some time since . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Another free kick has been given this time against big Mike Whitlow Lively start to the game and a lively start for the referee . |
| 19 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 20 | Should a metal bar be heated ten times , a hundred times , or how many times before we can conclude that it always expands when heated ? |
| 21 | Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted . |
| 22 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 23 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Jewish cemetery in Berlin 's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker 's hostels , and known meeting places of the ‘ left ’ — bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses . |
| 26 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 27 | The fight we have witnessed between eagle and man has been fought many times in many places and will be fought again . |
| 28 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 29 | This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket . |
| 30 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |