Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [det] times [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 4 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |
| 7 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 11 | That , too , has been raised many times tonight . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 13 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 18 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 19 | It has been suggested many times since . |
| 20 | Although this had been suggested many times before , Stuart was the first to succeed , and his work shaped the future of the extension system . |