Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that . |
| 6 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Neither has spoken for some time . |
| 16 | AN EPIC battle over a five-a-side complex has gone into extra time after protestors lodged 1,000 letters of objection . |
| 17 | She has sunk by that time . |
| 18 | In view of everything that has happened since that time , this distinction is important . |
| 19 | A great deal has happened in that time and I have enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 20 | However , inner-city funding introduced by Labour in the late 1970s began the process , which has continued since that time , of identifying and ranking authorities . |
| 21 | The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds . |
| 22 | The idea that the polarity of the Earth 's magnetic field has reversed through geological time was proposed early this century by Brunhes in France and Matuyama in Japan . |
| 23 | He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ . |
| 24 | Its format has changed over that time , quite a bit , because like any quality system , it 's subject to constant review . |