Example sentences of "[noun] have be [verb] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general link has been mentioned several times . |
| 2 | The extensive literature on the complex issue of social support has been reviewed many times . |
| 3 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 4 | This function has been called many times under many conditions , and with a variety of subjects . |
| 5 | Apart from being broadcast on Belgian television , this interview has been shown several times to the mainly student audience of the association , but the text has never been published . |
| 6 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 7 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
| 8 | Rats have been sighted several times in the Hundens Lane area and Darlington Council 's environmental health department say all rubbish should be kept securely bundled and no scraps of food should be left . |
| 9 | The process of management and the functions of management have been analysed many times in various ways by different writers , who have taken the view that : |
| 10 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 11 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 12 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 13 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 14 | Ted Fleming 's original has been copied many times , always with appreciated success , so we have no hesitation in recommending it as a lifter for any parafauna that is within reasonable weight limits . |
| 15 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 16 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 17 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
| 18 | The Jewish cemetery in Berlin 's Weissensee district has been desecrated several times and groups armed with petrol bombs and rubber truncheons have attacked immigrant worker 's hostels , and known meeting places of the ‘ left ’ — bars like Café Westphal in Prenzlauer Berg and various squatted houses . |
| 19 | Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again . |
| 20 | Interest rates have been reduced several times with a significant shift in economic policy giving priority to growth . |
| 21 | The fight we have witnessed between eagle and man has been fought many times in many places and will be fought again . |
| 22 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 23 | This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket . |
| 24 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 25 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 26 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 27 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 28 | The case for clinician involvement has been rehearsed many times and is taken as established here . |
| 29 | The intensity of the water problem has been mentioned several times . |
| 30 | Differences among accents of English have been mentioned several times in the course , and this is a subject that many students of English find interesting and wish to know more about . |