Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 2 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 3 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 4 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
| 5 | The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times . |
| 6 | Spielberg , accustomed to close encounters in the extra-terrestrial sphere , has offered to be creative consultant on a drama-documentary loosely based upon the book , which has sold over 300,000 hardback copies in the UK and has been reprinted fourteen times . |
| 7 | Gotti had been prosecuted on three previous occasions — while the current trial was in progress the foreman of the jury in the 1987 trial was indicted for conspiring with Gotti to return a not guilty verdict in exchange for $60,000 — and had been acquitted each time . |
| 8 | 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 . |