Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This guidebook was first published in 1959 , and it has been revised and reprinted several times since , the present copy being a revised impression of the 1981 edition . |
| 2 | It has been rebuilt and readorned many times , and most centuries from the fourth to the twentieth — when it had to be largely rebuilt after the Second World War — have contributed to it ; it is a supreme symbol of continuity . |
| 3 | His discussion paper on the subject had now been drafted and redrafted several times . |
| 4 | With its broad and open frontiers , Russia is a country that has been invaded and occupied many times by outside powers . |
| 5 | I mean this has been worn and washed many times for Charlotte . |
| 6 | In order to study effectively you need to be organised and to put sufficient time aside to learn and to reflect . |
| 7 | With the options now open to couples , commitments and covenants will need to be renegotiated and re-formulated many times in the course of a lifetime as family groups move through different stages . |
| 8 | In fact , while an oil cargo could be sold and resold several times a day under the right market conditions , very few North Atlantic or Baltic general cargo shipments are sold on the water . |
| 9 | Other aspects of packaging may emphasise the convenience of the pack , as for example in cigarette packets which may be opened and reopened several times , or beer cans , which can be opened safely by pulling a ring . |
| 10 | When Marsh was dumped it did not concern him that as Australian captain anything he said or did might be misconstrued or magnified many times over . |
| 11 | ‘ I have already been asked that question several times under druggings of Veritas . |
| 12 | The six Concerti on this interesting release were published in 1742 , and were rearranged and reprinted many times , the composer actually rearranging the Sixth Concerto in an edition published 33 years later , such was its popularity . |
| 13 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 14 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 15 | One of the most deliberate of these editorial tempo relationships occurs in ‘ Pleni sunt coeli et terra majestatis gloriae tuae ’ where the text at minim=60 is preceded and followed each time by the orchestral ‘ fanfares ’ at double speed , and this breakneck tempo is then adopted for the remainder of the movement ( for the unfortunate apostles , prophets and martyrs ) until the inevitable rallentando at the end . |
| 16 | On the other hand , supervisors with poor performance are described as spending more time in ensuring that their staff were busily employed in fulfilling specified stages of work . |
| 17 | In the fifth century Rome was attacked and sacked three times . |
| 18 | Once covered in a tropical moist forest with rich fauna , A Luoi and A Sau valley , 60km long and between three and six kilometres wide , was defoliated and napalmed many times . |