Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 2 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 3 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 4 | In January 1986 , the then Lord Chancellor ( Lord Hailsham ) said that the rules had been reviewed from time to time and the judiciary of the Supreme Court and the Circuit bench consulted . |
| 5 | Mr Ensall admitted there had been delays , but that all mail had been processed on time since March 9 . |