Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 The rhynchosaurs had by that time became extinct .
3 Certificates have for some time been sent in postal tubes by recorded delivery to Divisional Secretaries .
4 All three countries have at one time or another during the 1980s had recourse to the IMF for standby loans .
5 Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home .
6 Against the $9.5 billion of deposit liabilities outstanding at the end of 1985 , the banks had at that time only about $1.5 billion of assets in the form of dinar credits .
7 The existence of such a large ( see 12:37 ) alien group in his borderlands has for some time made Pharaoh uneasy .
8 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 . ’
9 It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The toast to the Divisions has for some time been a ‘ musical geography tour ’ and this time people present were treated to an extra musical item being the toast to National Office , whereby gave an immaculate rendition of The Hippopotamus Song .
13 As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution .
14 Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts .
15 There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper .
16 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 ?
17 Its relationship with the markets has throughout that time been one of independence , and the clearing procedure has evolved over the years .
18 The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future .
19 Almost men have at some time an intimation of being more than the material , and the appearance and personality .
20 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 .
21 Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested .
22 He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome .
23 Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling .
24 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 .
25 Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility .
26 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 .
27 De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used .
28 Trade unions had for some time been supporting candidates for the House of Commons and spending union funds for this purpose .
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