Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been recognised for some time , perhaps most articulately in France , as one of the attainments to be expected from a top-class academic teacher and researcher , with an outstanding ability in accurate communication with the men ( and women ) in the street : haute popularisation . |
| 2 | The need for such a centre has been recognised for some time . |
| 3 | The importance of the environmentally fragile coastal zone has been recognised for some time , and in response to growing concern for coastal environments under pressure , a new group has been set up in BGS to draw on the experience of land and marine geologists , sedimentologists and coastal engineers The geology of a strip round the coast of the United Kingdom , which in places extends several kilometres offshore , is largely unexplored . |
| 4 | The importance of the coastal zone has been recognised for some time , and a new group has now been formed in BGS in response to growing concern for the environments under pressure in this potentially fragile area . |
| 5 | The association between HIV infection and tuberculosis has been recognised for some time , and the emergence of multidrug resistance in the United States represents the latest development . |
| 6 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 7 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 8 | The main interest of this church is in its interior mosaics because much of the building has been altered in later times . |
| 9 | An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time . |
| 10 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 11 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 12 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 13 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 14 | This centre for the elderly has been broken into four times in two years . |
| 15 | This centre for people with special needs has been broken into four times in nine days . |
| 16 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 19 | The release of these chemicals following drainage has been recognized for some time , but researchers at the Australian national research organization ( CSIRO ) now offer an explanation of the cause and also point to the great risks involved in large-scale land reclamation projects . |
| 20 | The huge space-based extravaganza has been gone for some time . |
| 21 | It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced . |
| 22 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 23 | West of the village centre are vast quarries from which granite has been taken since Roman times . |
| 24 | A Labour campaign document championed the ‘ traditional values and firm foundations of the mid-Staffordshire way of life ’ and complained that its ‘ serenity … has been shattered in recent times ’ by crime . |
| 25 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 26 | That it has been populated from prehistoric times is evidenced by the remains of neolithic buildings , mainly on Hirta , the largest island in the group . |
| 27 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 28 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 29 | The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints . |
| 30 | the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation |