Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
| 2 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 3 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 4 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 5 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 6 | It has been suggested many times since . |
| 7 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 8 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 9 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 10 | It has been reprinted several times , beginning in 1910 . |
| 11 | Every word in it has been typed four times ( once by our Paris correspondent , once by the French telex operator , once by a typist in our office , and finally by the Linotype operator at Index Printers ) . |
| 12 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 13 | It had been advocated countless times , but prejudice against it held sway , and it was argued that identifying players would pander to their individual egos . |
| 14 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 15 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 16 | It had been reprinted nine times when Walton wrote his Life of Herbert in 1675 . |
| 17 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 18 | We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |
| 21 | Well another question — it 's been put several times on this programme — it 's something like this — Councillors have just been considering cuts in budgets that will affect the voters . |