Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there |
| 2 | Uplift of this magnitude could have occurred during Hercynian times with the stripping of considerable amounts of Carboniferous overburden . |
| 3 | Successful attempts to get local people to participate in official conservation programmes may have increased in post-colonial times , but there are many cases of governments choosing coercion rather than participation , for example : |
| 4 | The fragments of the drama thus enacted — St George , St Patrick , Beelzebub , the Devil and Devil Doit — may have derived from pre-Christian times . |
| 5 | Visitors are guided through the baths as they would have appeared in Roman times by artists ' reconstructions , spoken commentaries and fascinating computer graphics . |
| 6 | There were also financial losses to the British Electricity Authority from having to operate old and inefficient plant for more extended periods than they would have chosen in normal times : in the early 1950s the extra cost of burning scarce coal inefficiently was reckoned at £3½ millions a year at the low official coal prices of the time , though the real resource cost was somewhat higher than this . |
| 7 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |