Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 2 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 3 | A post mortem revealed Mrs Bahia had been stabbed 16 times , Mrs Dhandwar 46 times and Avtar had 11 knife wounds . |
| 4 | A post mortem showed 80year-old Mr Goult , known as ‘ Old Jack ’ , had been stabbed many times in the chest at his home in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , Liverpool . |
| 5 | He had been stabbed fourteen times . |
| 6 | They had been stabbed 70 times . |
| 7 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 8 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 9 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 10 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 11 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 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 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 14 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 15 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted . |
| 18 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 25 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 26 | Gotti had been prosecuted on three previous occasions — while the current trial was in progress the foreman of the jury in the 1987 trial was indicted for conspiring with Gotti to return a not guilty verdict in exchange for $60,000 — and had been acquitted each time . |
| 27 | However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received . |
| 28 | Among its main points were : * the total emissions from ICI plants of pollutants to land , air and water fell from 8.6 million tonnes in 1990 to 8.3 million tons in 1991 ( down 3.7 per cent ) ; * the company had been prosecuted 36 times in 1990 and 26 times in 1991 for environmental offences , with the number of prosecutions falling in every country of operation with the exception of Britain ; * production of hazardous waste fell from 678 tonnes in 1990 to 476 tonnes in 1991 ( down 29.8 per cent ) ; * the amounts of " non-hazardous " waste dumped in landfills and in the North Sea increased , from 3,509 tons to 3,565 tons and from 150 to 170 tons respectively ; * overall energy consumption fell by 6 per cent in 1991 ( partly due to the sale of 20 subsidiaries and falling product sales ) ; * the company 's expenditure on environment-related projects reached £300 million in 1991 . |
| 29 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 30 | Their design had been changed several times before they were finally erected . |