Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 You watch the bronze figure of the man working the shadoof , which he has done since the time of the Pharaohs .
2 The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment .
3 This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth .
4 A more elaborate discussion of such structures has appeared at the time of writing ( Chadwick 1985 a and b ) .
5 And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1
6 There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs .
7 He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex .
8 After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates .
9 To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong .
10 Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity .
11 Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis .
12 Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled .
13 Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution .
14 This must also have secured for Oswiu an important diplomatic contact with the Kentish court of King Eorcenberht ( 640–64 ) , son of Eadbald , and re-established the former relationship which had prevailed in the time of Eadwine and Eadbald .
15 Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ?
16 By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids .
17 My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving .
18 the plaintiff had died by the time of the hearing .
19 What the plaintiff was told is not clear , as the surgeon had died by the time of the trial .
20 The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions .
21 I think we ca n't do justice to the point you 've raised in the time at our disposal , but it is a very important issue .
22 Top of my list of ‘ possibles ’ is Colin Stephens , who had a poor spell last season after Llanelli 's loss against Neath but had recovered by the time of the Schweppes Cup final .
23 As a class they had disappeared by the time of the Domesday survey .
24 From here , the grim Hazar Ustan or Thousand Pillared Palace , Tughluk ruled the largest and most powerful empire India had known since the time of Ashoka , one and a half millennia previously .
25 It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away .
26 Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters .
27 Not , at least , of the sort who 've emerged in the time since ‘ Raw Like Sushi ’ : singers like Lisa Stansfield , Betty Boo , Cathy Dennis , Kylie and Dannii — all of whom are peddling an ersatz glamour drawn from adolescent fantasies of sophistication , untouchable otherness , phoney celebrity .
28 Something terrible had happened in the time between his looking away and looking back .
29 About 80% had always had an off-farm job and of the others most had started at a time of extra financial pressure on the farm , for example low prices for produce , loss due to weather or stock health problems .
30 Three years had passed since the time of her conception and she was still without spars and rigging and had not been fitted out internally .
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