Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [det] time [adv] " 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 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 3 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 6 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 7 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 8 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
| 9 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |
| 10 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 11 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 12 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 13 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 14 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 15 | That , too , has been raised many times tonight . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 19 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 20 | The tree has been removed some time since . |
| 21 | and for our team achievement is climbing from the bottom to the top of the North Stack in Anglesey … its not Everest … and its been climbed many times before but this is where you taste the true flavour of British mountaineering … |
| 22 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 23 | The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before . |
| 24 | This photograph , of a doctor , was one that had been taken some time previously to illustrate an article on long hours worked by junior doctors . |
| 25 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
| 26 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 27 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 28 | It has been suggested many times since . |
| 29 | Although this had been suggested many times before , Stuart was the first to succeed , and his work shaped the future of the extension system . |
| 30 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |