Example sentences of "[noun] have [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams .
2 Certificates have for some time been sent in postal tubes by recorded delivery to Divisional Secretaries .
3 All three countries have at one time or another during the 1980s had recourse to the IMF for standby loans .
4 It added : ‘ This explosion deepens the cracks in a monarchy which a number of Britons have for some time regarded with a mixture of indifference and contempt . ’
5 Most people who use an analogue mobile phone have at some time been unhappy with the call quality , and an unfortunate few have experienced the unpleasant side effects of deliberate or accidental ‘ eavesdropping ’ .
6 This is an important shift away from the concept that a firm is competent to carry out investment business and may be authorised solely on the grounds that its partners have at some time qualified as chartered accountants .
7 Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm .
8 The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him .
9 Subsequently , most Scottish rural areas , mid- and North Wales , the Pennines and parts of Devon and Cornwall have at one time or another been designated as Assisted Areas ( see figure 3.3a ) .
10 It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that .
11 Political scientists have for some time tried to grapple with the question : what difference , if any , does party control of the government make to political outputs ?
12 Almost men have at some time an intimation of being more than the material , and the appearance and personality .
13 Non-flying mammals have for some time been suspected to be pollinators in a number of vegetation types outside the tropics and , in recent years , this has been proved to be so in both South Africa and Australia .
14 Again , most women have at some time come across specimens of English anti-feminism , though the geography of this unpleasant addiction does not follow national boundaries or even religious ones although both have their own special effects .
15 Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility .
16 Although it has yet to displace the older established metal in western sentiment , court jewellers have for some time been using platinum as a more appropriate setting for diamonds than gold .
17 De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used .
18 Nursing organisations in New South Wales have for some time been discussing specific roles of the nurse practitioner with the Department of Health , the outcome of which has been eagerly awaited by the Australian Medical Association ( AMA ) and nursing organisations in other states .
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