Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olazabal 's compatriot Sevvy Ballesteros , who has fallen upon hard times after 68 tournament victories worldwide , said : ‘ The US Open is not my type of golf course , but I try to do my best and see what happens . ’ |
| 2 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 3 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 4 | The derogation , which applies to all cereals intervened after November 1 , puts UK farmers on a par with their counterparts in northern Europe where the relaxation has applied for some time . |
| 5 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 6 | The Government has argued for some time now that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that all decisions on behalf of the people will be made by Parliament . |
| 7 | The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that . |
| 8 | It , it came or it or it would be one of the depressions that the town has suffered from many times during the last fifty or sixty years . |
| 9 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 10 | The factory has expanded to four times its original size and has become a showpiece of British industry . |
| 11 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 12 | The V8 contains every engineering innovation Audi has made in that time : four-wheel drive , Procon-Ten , galvanised bodywork , flush glass , multi-valve combustion and an exhaust catalyst . |
| 13 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 14 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 15 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 16 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 17 | Thus the problem of splitting a program between two storage media , one fast but small and the other large but slow , has reappeared at different times and at different storage levels . |
| 18 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 19 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 20 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 21 | Indeed , it has seemed of recent times , that all England needed to do to win in Dublin was just to turn up . |
| 22 | Neither has spoken for some time . |
| 23 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
| 24 | Cases are taking 16 months or more , with a backlog of 60,000 , and this must be rectified , especially as , we have been told , the number of applications has increased by 10 times in four years — from 5,000 in 1988 to 50,000 this year . |
| 25 | The annual report of the Forestry Commission — the state forestry body — notes that planting of broadleaved varieties of trees has increased by 10 times over the last decade . |
| 26 | Use of these fertilisers has increased by eight times since the 1950s , and allows farmers to grow one crop continuously without letting the ground recuperate . |
| 27 | More than 27,000 pulses later the current has increased by 400 times and the pulse length by 600 times . |
| 28 | AN EPIC battle over a five-a-side complex has gone into extra time after protestors lodged 1,000 letters of objection . |
| 29 | Inspection shows that whereas the clock has pulsed 12 times , X1 has pulsed on 6 times and X2 only 3 . |
| 30 | She has sunk by that time . |