Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In years to come , when the new road has fallen into disuse and the plaque has been worn away by time , people may come here and wonder what is the hidden significance of the stones ; or maybe by then , they 'll have discovered that Stonehenge was built by some ancient farmer , commemmorating a new bypass . |
| 2 | The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized . |
| 3 | Markets had been held there from time immemorial , almost certainly from long before a royal grant was obtained in 1245 for an annual four-day fair . |
| 4 | The motor of this growth has been the rapid spread of corporate computerization ( and also personal computers among the better off ) and personal receivers , the relative prices of which have been reduced substantially over time . |
| 5 | Your study will be effective only if you are prepared to apply intelligently to your work certain well-known techniques , most of which have been used successfully from time immemorial . |