Example sentences of "had [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 2 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 3 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |
| 4 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 5 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 6 | The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ . |
| 7 | Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people . |
| 8 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 9 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 10 | In his first policy statement as President , Nujoma on March 21 promised to redress the distortions of the apartheid economy , and appeared to assuage fears of the white minority and potential Western aid donors by rejecting the idea of large-scale nationalization , which SWAPO had for a long time held to be a cornerstone of its Marxist ideology . |
| 11 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 12 | Walker , who apart from the Prime Minister herself ( Margaret Thatcher ) and Sir Geoffrey Howe was the only remaining member of the Conservative Cabinet formed in 1979 ( and who had also been a member of Edward Heath 's Cabinet in 1970-74 ) , had for a considerable time been regarded as in many ways out of sympathy with certain aspects of Thatcher 's political philosophy . |
| 13 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 14 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 15 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 16 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 17 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 18 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 19 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 20 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 21 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 22 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 23 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 24 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 25 | However , indebtedness had at the same time gone up from 90 per cent of GNP to a January 1990 level of 120 per cent , the second highest in Western Europe . |