Example sentences of "have at one 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 | Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
| 6 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 7 | Semenov had at one time been the Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 8 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His father , the son of a Yorkshire grazier , had at one time been a journeyman packer in London . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Busacher had at one time been surprised at Willi 's musical perception , but was no longer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |