Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 2 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results . |
| 5 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 6 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 7 | This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects . |
| 8 | Sun executives say the issue of Sun chief executive officer Scott McNealy giving up his other post as president of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , Sun 's systems planet ( UX No 433 ) , has been raised many times and never acted on . |
| 9 | That , too , has been raised many times tonight . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 11 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
| 12 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 13 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
| 14 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 15 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 16 | As has been said many times ( certainly by me ) , it is the easiest thing in the world to write a review of an unimportant book . |
| 17 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 18 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
| 19 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
| 20 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 21 | With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine . |
| 22 | He has been challenged many times on the weak link in his case , which is that since American firms are free to relocate to Mexico , a trade agreement is the best way to make sure that American interests are protected . |
| 23 | The Earth has been visited many times in its history , but it 's all been covered up . |
| 24 | This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket . |
| 25 | The Jewish cemetery in Berlin 's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker 's hostels , and known meeting places of the ‘ left ’ — bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses . |
| 26 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 27 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 28 | What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist . |
| 29 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 30 | Though the theory of a third hand — the interpolator of the epitomist of Jason — has been propounded several times — and even recently by Diego Arenhoevel in his excellent book Die Theokratie nach dem I. und II . |