Example sentences of "time it [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time it had been accepted that humans could not survive on worlds which were in orbit around any sun which was capable of being classed as a red giant . |
| 2 | By c1800 , the Norton family were there , by which time it had been reconstructed to house two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 3 | By that time it had been made very clear to Jessamy — in the politest way possible — that she definitely was n't socially acceptable . |
| 4 | Normally we go to Cavendish Square but this time it had been cordoned off . |
| 5 | In her words ‘ I find myself blaming this for my self-hate , my lack of confidence , my feeling of , ‘ how can anyone love me ’ ’ She had kept this a secret and this was the first time it had been put on paper . |
| 6 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , had almost sunk by the time it had been towed in and hauled onto a slipway . |
| 7 | His ill-starred daughter , of whose birth on 8 December 1542 James heard on his deathbed , was kept at Linlithgow for seven months , by which time it had been agreed that she should in the fullness of time marry Edward , heir to Henry VIII of England . |
| 8 | The Royal College of Psychiatrists , at the recommendation of the Spokes Inquiry , published Good medical practice in the aftercare of potentially violent or vulnerable patients discharged from in-patient psychiatric treatment in October 1991 , by which time it had been overtaken by the introduction of the care programme approach . |
| 9 | It was the first time the Communicator of the Year presentation had left London and the first time it had been staged as part of the annual convention . |
| 10 | By the time it had been persuaded onwards the victoria was out of sight . |
| 11 | Michael Brunson tried a rude personal question , but by the time it had been translated into official interviewese — ‘ Would you accept that there are worries about your being in Downing Street ? ’ — it hardly sounded like a question , let alone a rude question . |
| 12 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 13 | The country 's top paragliding experts were staging a national competition … the first time it 's been held in the region . |
| 14 | Technically it 's not a marginal because it 's the first time it 's been fought . |
| 15 | It 's a long time it 's been going since that sort of thing . |
| 16 | He said Hawes as in Hawes , but that 's the only time it 's been mentioned in public . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a task fire officers tackle regularly , but this time it 's been simulated as part of a competition , where crews from all over the world to compete against the clock and each other . |
| 18 | Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed . |
| 19 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 20 | It will be the first time the programme has ever been done outside London , and the first time it has been done in front of an audience . |
| 21 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
| 22 | The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled . |
| 23 | At the same time it has been lumbered by its parent bank with needlessly big headquarters in Tokyo 's most expensive rented building . |
| 24 | By the time it has been adzed out , you will only have a small edge to clean up as well as the underside . |
| 25 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 26 | A downhole flowmeter for measuring the flow rates and water cut was run in the well , the first time it has been used in the North Sea , although a prototype has been used at Wytch Farm . |
| 27 | This will not be the first time it has been tried , and the observations of one former planning official are worth quoting at length : |
| 28 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 29 | The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed . |