Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
2 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
3 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
4 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
5 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
6 | The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time . |
7 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
8 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
9 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
10 | Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted . |
11 | Another free kick has been given this time against big Mike Whitlow Lively start to the game and a lively start for the referee . |
12 | So far , more than half of those taken on trial have been given full time jobs like Chris . |
13 | If , after a previously unblemished career , you are taken to task , it may be that your superiors ' requirements are unrealistic or that you have not yet been given sufficient time to adjust to the style of the new regime . |
14 | THE mercy death doctor has been given more time to consider his future . |
15 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
16 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
17 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
18 | The windows of the Methodist Church adjoining the playing field have been broken numerous times . |
19 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
20 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
21 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
22 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
23 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
24 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
25 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
26 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
27 | The author would welcome responses from teams developing courses in EP , particularly in North America , with a view to publishing a much more elaborate framework ( akin to that available for Computer Science ) , including the items which have been omitted this time . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Beveridge 's scheme was not , as has been stressed many times , revolutionary . |
30 | It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized . |