Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
| 4 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 5 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |
| 10 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 11 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 12 | This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects . |
| 13 | For instance , the fine against a player ranked in the top 4 in the world has been increased five times from $20,000 to £100,000 . |
| 14 | To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That , too , has been raised many times tonight . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
| 20 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 21 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
| 22 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 23 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 24 | This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament . |
| 25 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 26 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year . |