Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] several time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 4 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
| 5 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 9 | With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 12 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 13 | What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 16 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 17 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 18 | It has been reprinted several times , beginning in 1910 . |
| 19 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 20 | It was an unfortunate British debut for Thompson , who has been overlooked several times by coach , Dennis Hay . |
| 21 | The intensity of the water problem has been mentioned several times . |
| 22 | The general link has been mentioned several times . |
| 23 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 24 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 25 | There is a certain kudos in it , like the attitude towards Patrick Chauvel ( who has been wounded several times covering wars ) , and there 's Capa 's : ‘ If your photos are n't good enough you 're not close enough . ’ |
| 26 | Even from this distance it was clear he 'd been hit several times in the chest and there was also red paint all over his visor . |
| 27 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 28 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 29 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 30 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |