Example sentences of "have [verb] at [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 2 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 3 | He regretted that his proposal for a peace conference a year ago had not been acted upon , as he was confident the Soviet Union would have participated at that time with beneficial effects for the whole world . |
| 4 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 5 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 6 | It had not been as he had dreamed at that time with the beloved of his youth : fame and glory , honour and victory . |
| 7 | Our review of the surveillance programme had three distinct goals : ( a ) to obtain full follow up of all patients who had participated at any time in the surveillance programme ; ( b ) to identify any other patients , who attended the department over this time and who should have been recruited into the surveillance programme ; and ( c ) to identify all cases of colonic carcinoma occurring in association with ulcerative colitis presenting to the department over this period . |
| 8 | The ideological differences which have emerged no matter how defined by warring factions , are nevertheless traceable , in general , to the differing responses which they have made at those times in their histories when the need to make the decision became manifest . |
| 9 | You therefore get an increasing tangle of bureaucratic instructions which seek to legislate for an endless series of unlikely events which have occurred at some time in the organization 's past . |
| 10 | It will be a very low level of inflation , lower than we have known at any time in recent years , and steady sustainable growth leading to secure jobs , sustaining the Conservative party in government for many years . |
| 11 | Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives , and have been able to stick to the new regime quite rigidly for a little while . |