Example sentences of "[be] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 2 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 3 | I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time . |
| 4 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 5 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 6 | We would not be able to tell what the enemy 's intentions are this time , ’ Kopyion replied . |
| 7 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 8 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 9 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 10 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 11 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 12 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 13 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 14 | It 's been some time . ’ |
| 15 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 16 | That must of been some time ago |
| 17 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 18 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 19 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 20 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 21 | A petition organized by the Jewish people 's Council against Fascism and Anti-Semitism collected 77,000 signatures in two days ; it was felt that if there had been more time over a quarter of a million would have signed against Mosley 's proposed demonstration . |
| 22 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 23 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 24 | Hysteroscopy and biopsy are more time consuming and expensive than the traditional dilatation and curettage . |
| 25 | Ironically searches for small/medium sized companies are more time consuming and therefore higher cost than for large companies . |
| 26 | Your success could be resented by others , which may mean that you have to fight for dear life to hang on to what you 've got , or there will be little time to enjoy your personal or social life . |
| 27 | But it does n't pay to be too jumpy , and run away from every approaching shape , or there 'd be little time left for anything else . |
| 28 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 29 | Some thought has to be given to what is possible and it may be that time out can not be used . |
| 30 | It may be that time limits , even when employees help set them , are not viewed as a standard of excellence by most employees in these job settings . |