Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] many time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That , too , has been raised many times tonight . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 5 | It has been suggested many times since . |
| 6 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
| 7 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 8 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 9 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 10 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 11 | Although this had been suggested many times before , Stuart was the first to succeed , and his work shaped the future of the extension system . |
| 12 | The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before . |
| 13 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |