Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 3 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints . |
| 6 | the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 10 | In fact , attention has been paid at different times , and in different initiatives , to developing financial information appropriate to each of the above levels of analysis . |
| 11 | You said yourself , that hole could have been made at any time . |
| 12 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
| 13 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 14 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 15 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 16 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 17 | Thereafter the time was never judged to be ripe although we were told in oral evidence that , subject to the availability of Ministers , a Defence Committee [ i.e. OD ] meeting could have been held at any time , if necessary at short notice . |
| 18 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 19 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 20 | The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too . |
| 21 | All other Palestinian higher-learning institutions had been reopened after having been closed at various times since the intifada started . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The result , stretching west from Hedeby , whose semicircular defences also seem to have been renewed at this time , was a rampart over eight miles long , about thirteen yards wide , and nearly ten feet high , not counting the wooden palisade with which it was presumably crowned . |
| 24 | It is known to have been held at some time ‘ on a Thursday with only four people there ’ . |
| 25 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 26 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 27 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 28 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 29 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 30 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |