Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 2 | Similarly , it is understandable that a landlord will wish to ensure that the tenant 's works are completed within a reasonable time . |
| 3 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 4 | He said Thompson had been involved in a traffic accident in which he had suffered a head injury and been concussed for a short time . |
| 5 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 6 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 7 | Finally , the most convincing evidence for residual function in animals comes from studies using very coarse stimuli that are presented for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 9 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |
| 10 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 11 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 12 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 13 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 14 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 15 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 16 | A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate . |
| 17 | Certain conduct may , rather than effect a variation of the agreement generally , have the effect of creating an estoppel in a particular case , not infrequently in connection with the possible expulsion of a partner on the ground of his breach of provisions in the agreement where his behaviour has in fact been tolerated over a considerable time . |
| 18 | Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 21 | Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury . |
| 22 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 23 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 24 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 25 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 26 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 27 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 28 | This is , in effect , what had already been known for a considerable time as a ‘ cantata ’ for six voices , four viole , two violini , and string and keyboard continuo , in four strongly contrasted sections ( solo and tutti ) preceded by a sinfonia . |
| 29 | The value of printing a linear document from a database has been appreciated for a long time . |
| 30 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |