Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [prep] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light .
2 All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of .
3 A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind .
4 Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike .
5 Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ?
6 Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall .
7 Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated .
8 Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility .
9 The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie .
10 As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation .
11 The science of astronomy had by this time totally undermined the old Ptolemaic system .
12 The carving had by this time become careless and clumsy .
13 Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour .
14 Unfortunately the bed manufacturer had during that time increased the price to £120 each and this was their only source of supply .
15 The papacy had by this time lost most of its former immense temporal power .
16 We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery .
17 We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery .
18 Worse , although carbon dioxide was used to extinguish the initial blaze , the fire had by that time spread into the adjacent reactor building .
19 When he sought to appeal , a preliminary objection was raised that an appeal did not lies , as the appeal was in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ in respect of which the Court of Appeal had at that time no jurisdiction .
20 Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis .
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