Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 2 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 3 | West of the village centre are vast quarries from which granite has been taken since Roman times . |
| 4 | A Labour campaign document championed the ‘ traditional values and firm foundations of the mid-Staffordshire way of life ’ and complained that its ‘ serenity … has been shattered in recent times ’ by crime . |
| 5 | That it has been populated from prehistoric times is evidenced by the remains of neolithic buildings , mainly on Hirta , the largest island in the group . |
| 6 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 7 | The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints . |
| 8 | Much of the research and theory which has informed our educational methodology has been superseded in recent times both in psychology and linguistics . |
| 9 | Steve Pope of Dereham , Norfolk , has been concentrating in recent times on improving the radio fit in Sugar and a number of boxes have been found on the shelves at the Museum 's store and restoration facility at Cardington . |
| 10 | In fact , attention has been paid at different times , and in different initiatives , to developing financial information appropriate to each of the above levels of analysis . |
| 11 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 12 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
| 13 | I came to the conclusion that my hunch had been right , but that the ditches must have been dug in mid-Victorian times and the earth piled on the track , putting all the older items out of detecting range . |
| 14 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 15 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 16 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 17 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 18 | Some caputs can be seen to be the logical successors to Roman and pre-Roman sites , the latter remaining as hillforts which may have been reoccupied in post-Roman times . |
| 19 | All other Palestinian higher-learning institutions had been reopened after having been closed at various times since the intifada started . |
| 20 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |
| 21 | One of his earliest discoveries in this field was how to make Tyrian purple — an indigo derivative — from certain shellfish , a secret which had been lost since Roman times . |
| 22 | The local deposits of tin and copper had been extracted from prehistoric times , the people of the Bronze Age having discovered how to make an alloy of the two metals that could be shaped into knives and tools far superior to the flint axes and other stone tools and weapons they had used hitherto . |
| 23 | Projectile weapons had been known from Roman times , but much of the technology was redeveloped during the crusades . |
| 24 | Basing his calculations on the mass of ancient slag heaps dotting the Troodos ophiolite , George Constantinou estimates that 2000 thousand tonnes of copper had been mined by Roman times . |
| 25 | Under Dušan the Serbs had encouraged German miners ( known as Saxons ) from Transylvania to develop the mines of Kosovo , some of which had been worked in Roman times . |
| 26 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 27 | I remembered reading about the protests over Club Row just north of Spitalfields ' market , where a street market in animals had been held since Victorian times . |
| 28 | Other economic achievements of the late eighteenth century were the draining of the marshes in the old lake bed of the Ljubljansko Barje — work which had been started in Roman times and is still not completed — the introduction of maize and potatoes into the crop rotation , the expansion of viticulture and the development of the textile industry . |
| 29 | Ordinances had been passed since medieval times to remove rubbish from streets ( Howe 1972 ) with further Nuisances Removals Acts in 1855 , 1860 , 1863 . |
| 30 | Relatively little of the peat fens had been reclaimed in medieval times . |