Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | BML has for some time been concerned about the declining popularity of the NBS , which began in a blaze of publicity in 1955 . |
2 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
3 | All the Met Waafs at Bourn had by this time qualified for their ‘ props ’ , so we were two steps up from the bottom of the ladder and that 's where we stopped . |
4 | One advantage Bedfordshire has at this time was that packages such as SIR , EDFAX and COMMUNITEL were being piloted in the country and one librarian was involved in a Prestel project . |
5 | The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns . |
6 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
7 | When he got a passport of his own , if they still had the sort Jarvis had by that time , he was going to write ‘ lion tattoo on back ’ under ‘ distinguishing marks ’ . |
8 | Amoco had for some time contested liability . |
9 | The Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 13 that he should be returned to prison but Alcalde had by this time left the country . |
10 | Doug Jones had at this time , been split from his mates of the Wolverton Company and was on a working party with a group of Queen Victoria Rifles men , detailed to drain some marshes in Poland . |
11 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | Busacher had at one time been surprised at Willi 's musical perception , but was no longer . |
14 | Tanberg had for some time been interested in the way that hydrogen behaves in the presence of metals such as palladium . |
15 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
16 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
17 | Schweppe had at that time suffered an apoplectic attack from which he died 18 November 1821 , at his home ( Les Petits Crêts ) in Bouchet , Petit Saconnex , Geneva . |
18 | James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland . |
19 | Vietnam and the UK had signed an agreement in principle on forced repatriation on Oct. 29 , 1991 [ see p. 38531 ] , but Vietnam had at that time only agreed to immediate repatriation of new arrivals and so-called " double-backers " — people who had fled to the colony a second time . |
20 | Semenov had at one time been the Deputy Foreign Minister . |
21 | 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 . |