Example sentences of "have [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | An American model of ‘ privatism ’ ( see Barnekov , Boyle and Rich , 1989 ) has in recent times been deemed as exportable . |
| 2 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 3 | Numerous questions have been asked in the House about the police national computer , but to my knowledge this is the first opportunity we have had in recent times to discuss wider issues . |
| 4 | We have seen that landowners have from early times sought methods of retaining their land in the family . |
| 5 | We 've attempted to design a system which is friendly in that it takes account of the different needs that a person will have at different times while trying to communicate with a computer . |
| 6 | Some farms had in recent times improved their stock handling facilities and this had helped greatly . |
| 7 | The lords-of the manoirs and their servants converged as they had in medieval times . |
| 8 | That in France , about which most information is available , had at various times responsibility for a wide variety of technical services — couriers , diplomatic bags , codes and , much more significantly , personnel and appointments . |
| 9 | Although the provincial assemblies of the Estates , representing the nobility , the clergy and the burghers , had at certain times some degree of local responsibility , for the most part the life of the realm was directed from the Austrian capital . |
| 10 | From a tentative experiment , bringing in a few girl trainees , mostly from charitable institutions , the employment in Edinburgh of women compositors had by Edwardian times become an institution . |
| 11 | Assorted pundits and government ministers have in recent times deliberately tried to create the impression that reducing interest rates is the main , or even the only , way to haul the British economy out of recession . |
| 12 | The local authorities have in recent times been empowered to control both the use to which property is put and the maintenance of premises . |
| 13 | Natural ‘ saline invasions ’ from the mouth of the bay or mysterious and undiagnosed maladies like ‘ Lake Venice ’ or ‘ Rhode River ’ disease , have at various times thinned out these plants . |
| 14 | Both indigenous and immigrant working classes have at various times staked claims to be considered the true backbone of ‘ the nation ’ ( as against a decadent aristocracy or unpatriotic bourgeoisie for example ) through various institutions of public propriety ( churches , labour organizations , community associations ) which at the same time defend the integrity of their own traditions against negative influences in the wider society . |
| 15 | To Tessa Pollard and Liane Saunders who have at various times voluntarily assisted with secretarial chores . |
| 16 | All five members , the United States , the Soviet Union , Britain , France and China have at various times , armed and supplied rival factions in Cambodia . |