Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [det] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Beveridge 's scheme was not , as has been stressed many times , revolutionary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 11 | The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times . |
| 12 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 13 | What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 16 | There is a certain kudos in it , like the attitude towards Patrick Chauvel ( who has been wounded several times covering wars ) , and there 's Capa 's : ‘ If your photos are n't good enough you 're not close enough . ’ |
| 17 | He had been wounded several times , twice seriously enough to have his life despaired of ; he had twice suffered the rigours of exile . |
| 18 | A post mortem showed 80year-old Mr Goult , known as ‘ Old Jack ’ , had been stabbed many times in the chest at his home in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , Liverpool . |
| 19 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 20 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 21 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 22 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
| 23 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
| 24 | The Earth has been visited many times in its history , but it 's all been covered up . |
| 25 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 26 | As has been said many times ( certainly by me ) , it is the easiest thing in the world to write a review of an unimportant book . |
| 27 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 28 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 29 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
| 30 | She has been seen several times over the years . |