Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This centre for the elderly has been broken into four times in two years . |
| 2 | This centre for people with special needs has been broken into four times in nine days . |
| 3 | In the last year his house has been broken into seven times , and burglars have tried to break in on at least another four occasions . |
| 4 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 5 | In order to standardize all these local times , the worlds has been divided into 24 time zones — each spanning 15 ° longitude . |
| 6 | The medical journals still present a variety of possible remedies , many of which sound most desperate and bizarre missionaries report from China that they have been cured by having needles stuck into their bellies and arms , yet this is not thought too strange to mention … and almost every variety of chemical substance has been proposed at one time or another , all of which is a sure sign that our profession remains baffled by this disease . " |
| 7 | The cost of the next stage after JET has been put at five times the cost of the Culham experiment and this would suggest the need for even wider collaboration . |
| 8 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
| 9 | This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it . |
| 10 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 11 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 12 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 13 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 14 | The vast majority of golfers have been told at one time or another how important the legs are in the game of golf . |