Example sentences of "have [det] time been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vehicle barrier at Slaughden which has several times been breached by owners of four-wheel drive trucks |
| 2 | Furthermore the line has several times been proposed for closure and only strenuous efforts by local politicians and the Heart of Wales Line Travellers ' Association ( HOWLTA ) have kept it open - indeed it is a minor miracle that it survived the Beeching closures . |
| 3 | ‘ That made my night , ’ said Mrs Simmons , who has several times been successful in the regional awards with portrait , wedding and commercial subjects . |
| 4 | Juries were sworn to declare the bounds of the forests ; they based their returns in the main on the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , which had put large areas out of the forest , and had many times been confirmed . |
| 5 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 6 | But as a child she had many times been wrested ( as it felt to her ) from her known environment into some strange place , leaving her totally confused . |
| 7 | Ismail Kadare , Albania 's best-known writer , who had several times been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for literature , requested political asylum in France on Oct. 25 . |
| 8 | Of course , all such early introductions have many times been added to if not replaced by others right up to the present day . |
| 9 | There have several times been movements for reform in the course of this century . |
| 10 | Although the general principles underlying the decision have several times been endorsed by the superior courts , the decision itself has never been the subject of a direct challenge , and its implications have not been fully confronted by the higher courts . |