Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [vb pp] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time .
2 Mr Ensall admitted there had been delays , but that all mail had been processed on time since March 9 .
3 As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms .
4 Whilst it would have been sensible for the remit to have been reviewed at time the organisation was created , we acknowledge the political realities that existed .
5 The decision in the case of Jean Sorelle Ltd v Rybak ( [ 1991 ] IRLR 153 ( EAT ) ) had decided that where an applicant acts on the advice of a member of the IT staff , it was open to an IT to hold that it was not reasonably practicable for the claim to have been presented in time .
6 As though the moment of passion had been frozen in time .
7 The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori …
8 ( Errors in calculation have been made at times , but discovered only when the water began to flow and it was found that the levada went uphill . )
9 ‘ Obviously some of the locos at the Snowdon Mountain Railway have been fitted from time to time .
10 They received no damages for the loss of some exceptionally lucrative government dyeing contracts which they would haze secured if the boiler had been delivered on time .
11 Fortunately the alarm has been sounded in time for many of the province 's historic buildings .
12 Letters addressed to the present writer have been opened from time to time from at least 1973 to the present .
13 Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 .
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