Example sentences of "[be] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 2 | The conference here in June agreed that voluntary repatriation should be given time to work and that only then would ‘ alternative measures ’ — including compulsory repatriation — be considered . |
| 3 | The client who presents a single problem will be allowed time to explore several ; the client who appears with a threatened electricity disconnection will be given time to expose other debts ; CAB workers are more aware of the place of industrial tribunals , of medical appeals and of welfare rights case law . |
| 4 | This is healing and renewing and should be given time . |
| 5 | If , for example , a haulage company wished to acquire a Volvo heavy goods vehicle as an addition to its existing mixed Meet of lorries , it would be given time — say , three years — to repay the sum borrowed , paying interest at a commercial rate each month for 36 months . |
| 6 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 7 | Employees may be given time off for house hunting or may be expected to do this at weekends . |
| 8 | These priorities , for example , might be expressed through a request to teach a different age group or to be given time to take a specific course . |
| 9 | The subject of the appraisal should be given time to prepare and the opportunity to corroborate the report . |
| 10 | All teachers should be given time to get to know the machines they are expected to use as well as the materials they will use with them . |
| 11 | ‘ Because it should never have happened the way it did , but if I was angry it was with myself , not you , because you needed to be courted , to be given time , and I gave you none . |
| 12 | Those who ca n't see a role for the trade unions and the Labour Party need to be given time to see the error of their ways . |
| 13 | As members have to be given time to incorporate measures into national law , it follows that the Council of Ministers will have to complete most of its work by 1990 . |
| 14 | The establishment of TECs was debated and fought in the House , but it is now evident that the TECs are doing good work and that the system needs to be given time to settle down . |
| 15 | Until his removal Aringo had spearheaded a campaign to reform the party , calling for fresh grassroots elections , the adoption of secret balloting and for opposition parties to be given time to organize properly . |
| 16 | But , honestly , I think we 'll just be wasting time if I go on like this . ’ |
| 17 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 18 | any employee attending court as a witness on behalf of the employee involved will be granted time off work with pay for this purpose . |
| 19 | The fragrance can be revitalised time after time with oils supplied ( £2.99 . ) |
| 20 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 21 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll be doing time again for this , Devlin , ’ said Duvall . |
| 23 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 24 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 25 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 26 | Intermediate sprints help towards this prize and the peloton will be split time and again . |
| 27 | We would not be taking time off work , making all kinds of out-of-the-usual arrangements , unless we thought it was important to go to the funeral as a mark of how we feel about the person who had died , and wanted to ‘ pay our respects ’ . |
| 28 | I think , we ought to be taking time to try and prepare , well for the next assembly and in doing so to own what goes on there and to say , yes as the previous speaker said we are the World Church in a very real way . |
| 29 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 30 | But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today . |