Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this history , it can therefore be seen that the scope , size and shape of the Burston site has altered considerably in that time as a result of the £4 million that has been spent over that period . |
| 2 | He has travelled abroad at sensitive times . |
| 3 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils much closer together and this important aspect of our work has expanded considerably in recent times . |
| 4 | The language has changed hugely since classical times , but the Greeks are the only people in the world , apart from the Chinese , who can look at a 2,500-year-old inscription and recognise in it their own tongue . |
| 5 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 6 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 7 | The ‘ Cambrian explosion ’ is largely a triploblastic radiation , but diploblasts and triploblasts may have diverged substantially before Ediacaran times . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose most of your friends must have stayed there at one time or another , ’ she said casually . |
| 9 | But it must have seemed just like old times . |
| 10 | She must have changed greatly in this time , although Gatsby still has a fixed , perfect image of her , seeing her more as goddess , than an ordinary human being , with bad as well as good points . |
| 11 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 12 | True , they had done so in Roman times , but since then the state 's institutional decline meant that the terms of the competition had shifted in favour of the regions and the aristocracy . |
| 13 | Rock art evidence suggests that they had done so in pre-historic times . |
| 14 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 15 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 16 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 17 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 18 | Probably rose gardens had flourished here at one time . |
| 19 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 20 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 21 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 22 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 23 | It is in these countries , particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , that significant upturns in the economy have done little to relieve a sense of urban crisis reminiscent of the 1960s , although the political terms of debates that address urban problems have changed dramatically over this time . |