Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacopo della Quercia has never enjoyed the popularity of his fellow sculptors Ghiberti and Donatello , and his works have not been favoured by time . |
| 2 | In the illustration in table 5.4 three values have been placed on time spent travelling , a frequent element in many CBA analyses . |
| 3 | Yeah , but your saying been in , erm they may have happened to you , I 've been bashed into time and time again |
| 4 | Peake has been registered in time for tomorrow 's home game against Preston North End . ’ |
| 5 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 6 | They have been revised over time — usually downwards — and they vary significantly from country to country . |
| 7 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 8 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 9 | As though the moment of passion had been frozen in time . |
| 10 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 11 | The decision in the case of Jean Sorelle Ltd v Rybak ( [ 1991 ] IRLR 153 ( EAT ) ) had decided that where an applicant acts on the advice of a member of the IT staff , it was open to an IT to hold that it was not reasonably practicable for the claim to have been presented in time . |
| 12 | As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms . |
| 13 | Virgin 's payments had all been made on time , and as far as he was aware there was no problem at all . |
| 14 | Documentary checks might be supplemented with results of site inspections to discover whether equipment was stored solely on site , whether it had been incorporated into the works , whether stage payments had been made on time and for the agreed amount . |
| 15 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 16 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 17 | Letters addressed to the present writer have been opened from time to time from at least 1973 to the present . |
| 18 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
| 19 | It went against the grain with Hotspur to let such an illustrious company move south unchallenged into England , merely because they had not been intercepted in time to confront them on reasonably equal terms . |
| 20 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 21 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 22 | Fortunately the alarm has been sounded in time for many of the province 's historic buildings . |
| 23 | I did n't believe there was a majority in favour of a Greater Israel , but it could have been attained over time . " |
| 24 | This atmosphere will ultimately emerge as something of immense value when ‘ the kindly light of reason ’ finally sweeps away all the incredible and stifling nonsense , which has been introduced from time to time in futile attempts to counter the inexorable demand that reason and common sense shall ultimately triumph , and replace superstition and blind senseless faith . |
| 25 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 26 | Mr Ensall admitted there had been delays , but that all mail had been processed on time since March 9 . |
| 27 | Indeed , if all else had failed — if the supplies had seldom been delivered on time , if the contras had declined to fight , if the money had gone astray , if the planes had crashed — the cause was still something that was simply right , whatever sort of mess had resulted . |
| 28 | There are obvious attractions in affording the Registrar an additional weapon in the form of a penalty recoverable by civil suit to which there is no defence once it is shown that accounts have not been delivered on time . |
| 29 | They received no damages for the loss of some exceptionally lucrative government dyeing contracts which they would haze secured if the boiler had been delivered on time . |
| 30 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |