Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 2 | Answer guide : In the former case an invoice for the goods or services supplied has been received whereas in the latter no invoice has been received at the time the accounts are drawn up therefore an estimate of the amount owing for the goods or services provided is made . |
| 3 | Suitable buildings are being considered but no final agreement has been reached at the time of going to press . |
| 4 | The national curriculum guidance which has been issued at the time of writing on the two core subjects of mathematics and science shows a welcome emphasis on statements of attainment rather than testing . |
| 5 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 6 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 7 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 8 | A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 . |
| 9 | Others were part of basic research on living tissue , and their benefits could not have been realised at the time . |
| 10 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 11 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 14 | The goods must actually have been stolen at the time of the offence . |
| 15 | The draft constituted the party 's second political platform , the first having been adopted at the time of the foundation of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party ( the CPV 's forerunner ) in 1930 . |
| 16 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 17 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 18 | Many are thought to have been buried at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 19 | No report of the treatment appears to have been published at the time , but evidence has come to light that he did indeed treat at least one patient , a young nurse with a persistent abscess resulting from injuries received in a street accident . |
| 20 | The highest price tag was £75,000 for an Elizabeth Frink horse , rumoured already to have been sold at the time of going to press . |
| 21 | The Interpretation Act 1978.5.7 , provides that service by post shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing , prepaying and posting a letter containing the document sent , and unless the contrary is proved , to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post . |
| 22 | When a notice is sent by post , service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing , prepaying and posting a letter containing the notice and to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post . |
| 23 | When a notice is sent by post , service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing , prepaying and posting a letter containing the notice and to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post . |
| 24 | Generally service is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 ) . |
| 25 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 26 | ‘ The dispatch of the fax appears to have been disregarded at the time by the team of detectives investigating the bombing , ’ declared the Independent , concluding , unwarily , that ‘ after two years of pursuing members of Jebril 's West German cell , and their associates across Europe , Scandinavia and the Mediterranean , it appears that these men were not responsible for planting the bomb . ’ |
| 27 | No objection had been raised at the time , he said , and ‘ it is absurd that they should start to quibble a week later and try to reopen the issue ’ . |
| 28 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 29 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 30 | The evidence indicated that all parts of the flying control system had been connected at the time of the accident , and no evidence of a control restriction or jam were found , although such a possibility could not be totally dismissed , given the degree of disruption in some areas . |