Example sentences of "been time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The times and places of striking advance in productivity have by no means generally been times and places of educational advance ; nor , where they have been , is it clear whether this is cause and effect or , if so , which is cause and which effect . |
| 2 | However , there have been times in the recent past when 50 per cent of the artists selling and succeeding in the USA have been British . |
| 3 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 4 | There 's been times , erm , other things , usually something unconnected with the music . ’ |
| 5 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 6 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 7 | Having said that , there have been times , one particular occasion in the west of Ireland I remember only too well , when after four days of heavy rain , I would have swapped tent , pack , pots and all for a warm bed and a hot bath . |
| 8 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 9 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 10 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 11 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 12 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 13 | Has there been time ? |
| 14 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 15 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 16 | There has , nevertheless , been time to watch him and he appears to be hitting shot after shot pretty well exactly where he wants it . |
| 17 | There has , nevertheless , been time to watch him and he appears to be hitting shot after shot pretty well exactly where he wants it . |
| 18 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 19 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , in the hurly-burly of a busy existence it is likely that the next experience will occur ( rather like waves relentlessly breaking on the shore ) before there has been time to review . |
| 21 | There has n't been time , ’ she said . |
| 22 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 23 | After the hectic middle years , couples may renew or begin activities together for which there had not previously been time . |
| 24 | But , of course , there had not been time yet for anyone to report on Katelina , even had shipping been normal . |
| 25 | There would have been time . |
| 26 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 27 | For one thing , there had not been time for the more remotely-seated lords to arrive , if indeed many of them heeded the summons ; and the Balliol supporters , of course , remained absent . |
| 28 | This arrived so soon we could n't believe there had been time to make them and get to the Matterhorn ! |
| 29 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 30 | He should have asked the Captain but with the Substitute 's eyes fixed on him he had n't felt able to , and later there had never been time . |