Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Wednesday are also under orders to smarten up their act and Worthington admitted : ‘ Although we are playing well enough , we 've been sloppy at times and have not stuck our chances away . ’ |
| 2 | And there , only sixteen say they 're depressive er people , eighty four no but the great majority here have been depressed from time to time . |
| 3 | Berwick had been relieved in time . |
| 4 | Dungannon may have been disjointed at times , and this is n't a performance they will remember , but even an off colour display was more than good enough to keep their Cup hopes alive . |
| 5 | ‘ Having him for a brother-in-law must have been embarrassing at times . ’ |
| 6 | Her cheeks were suffused with colour and Felix 's voice was very gentle as he said , ‘ Surely you must have been lonely at times ? |
| 7 | The health of my husband , my son and myself has suffered ( my husband was on sick leave for two months ) , and the tension in our home has been extreme at times . |
| 8 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 9 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 10 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |