Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 2 | The fishermen were so concerned for its welfare that they closed the lake for the remainder of the season , and the fish has since been spotted several times , fully recovered . |
| 3 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 4 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 5 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |
| 6 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 7 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 8 | But , in my opinion , oil painting is far from perfect : it darkens , it needs to be restored , any painting on show has generally been restored countless times and is no longer the painting that the artist originally created . |
| 9 | The farmer Colin French , who 'd already been prosecuted five times , was given a suspended jail sentence and banned from keeping four species of farm animal for fifteen years . |
| 10 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 11 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 12 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 13 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |
| 14 | The referendum , first scheduled for November 1991 , had already been postponed several times [ see pp. 38227 ; 38424 ; 38565 ; 38663 ] . |
| 15 | He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension . |
| 16 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 17 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 18 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 19 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 20 | Old Fakrid 's hardly been gone two time units and already our clever First Pilot has begun to sound exactly like him . |
| 21 | Wooden shuttering would char in the process , but could still be used several times . |
| 22 | At the end of that month Colonel Fergusson imparted the news that the Frenchy picture at the Rotunda had closed for lack of spectators , whereas Messrs Marshall 's Peristrephic Panorama was still being shown three times a day to audiences rendered perfectly comfortable by patent stoves . |
| 23 | In the iterative mode there is an imbalance whereby an event occurring only once is narrated several times or , much more frequently in literature , an event occurring frequently or repeatedly is narrated only once . |
| 24 | He 's also been banned three times for excess alcohol , . |
| 25 | Firstly , you will probably be spending more time at home , so items like heating and lighting are liable to be costlier . |
| 26 | As you 'll probably be spending more time in the living area , this will be your starting point . |
| 27 | The potential for font mismatching has now been raised many times . |
| 28 | One of his crosses was Perdita Macleod , who had now been working full time for Ricky for nine months and felt she knew everything . |
| 29 | Rick Shearman , defending , said : ‘ She has now been raped four times . |
| 30 | It did n't take her long to realise that he could n't really be spending much time here . |