Example sentences of "have been [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been no time in British history when this has ever occurred , although from time to time insurrectionary events , such as the Jacobite risings and Chartism , have appeared to threaten the Establishment . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 3 | If they have been able to discuss things with the person who is dying , if there has been a time of preparation , then the shock of facing the loss caused by death is perhaps not so great . |
| 4 | Gathering accurate information and perceptions on which to base our work has been a time consuming and laborious exercise but we have all learnt a great deal in the process and the model which has emerged appears to be acceptable to all of those who have been involved and the information networks have begun to do their time honoured job . |
| 5 | The past year has been a time of consolidation for various initiatives recently commenced in the RSUA . |
| 6 | The real barrier has been the time spent apart , he says . |
| 7 | For years , this has been the time when small bands of mushroom pickers wander through the forests . |
| 8 | The model for southeast England has been refined and developed and one reason for its modification has been the time allocated to mid-Tertiary earth movements as it was appreciated that these ‘ outer ripples of the Alpine storm ’ may have continued for longer than was at first envisaged . |
| 9 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 10 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 11 | These two hundred and thirty miles on the road should have been a time for strengthening bonds and for unifying our resolve , but I felt continually at cross-purposes with him . |
| 12 | There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour . |
| 13 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 14 | Nothing very dramatic here , then , but at least he was in the buying and selling game , not a wage slave , and there can hardly have been a time when it was not easier to sell the odd pork chop or two than it was to convince an employer that he ought to buy your skills as a craftsman . |
| 15 | There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's . |
| 16 | They were reluctant to believe that there could ever have been a time when the Universe had not looked much like it is today . |
| 17 | At what should have been a time to reflect on a most successful campaign to unite both Church and public in defence of fundamental Christian belief , Mrs Whitehouse was ‘ rocked ’ by the breaking of another controversy . |
| 18 | There would have been a time for such a word . |
| 19 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
| 20 | However , general relativity claims to be only a partial theory , so what the singularity theorems really show is that there must have been a time in the very early universe when the universe was so small , that one could no longer ignore the small-scale effects of the other great partial theory of the twentieth century , quantum mechanics . |
| 21 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
| 22 | Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates . |
| 23 | There would have been no time for another member of the crew to try to take over the controls . |
| 24 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 25 | This may have been the time when Nero and his advisers were concerned about Britain . |
| 26 | This would also have been the time for naked women on horseback to lead the community out into the fields , bearing symbols of fertility to ensure a plentiful harvest . |
| 27 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 28 | We did walk somewhere one time and erm very very nice the it must have been the time when the salmon were riverside walk . |
| 29 | While studying spinning in Huddersfield ( as part of her degree course in textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic ) there had been no time for her to try out the machine , so the then sceptical technician told her to come back later . |
| 30 | There had been no time to attempt to flee , or even to struggle ; hundreds simply died in their tracks . |