Example sentences of "have at [adj] time [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell . |
| 2 | A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house . |
| 3 | Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time . |
| 4 | Burnage Court , the big house in the picture hidden in trees at the end , has at some time been cruelly treated , with badly applied half-timbering on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Similar letters were addressed to A and to the company , neither of whom had at that time been charged with any offence under the Act . |
| 7 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 8 | Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist . |
| 9 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 10 | The manager of Goddards , ‘ Wiggy ’ Harris , had at one time been a teacher at the local ‘ School of Art ’ where his father Mr. Joseph Harris was Headmaster . |
| 11 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
| 12 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 13 | Semenov had at one time been the Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 14 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 15 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 16 | A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol . |
| 17 | His father , the son of a Yorkshire grazier , had at one time been a journeyman packer in London . |
| 18 | It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 . |
| 19 | Busacher had at one time been surprised at Willi 's musical perception , but was no longer . |
| 20 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 21 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 22 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |
| 23 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
| 24 | Provided they have at least one year 's service with the University by the expected date of birth , or have at any time been eligible to receive full-rate Statutory Maternity Pay or were at any stage entitled to the benefits of a previous employer 's paid maternity leave scheme , women are eligible for 18 weeks maternity leave on full pay , followed by up to 22 weeks unpaid maternity leave . |
| 25 | Most people who use an analogue mobile phone have at some time been unhappy with the call quality , and an unfortunate few have experienced the unpleasant side effects of deliberate or accidental ‘ eavesdropping ’ . |