Example sentences of "is [adv] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would because some of it is only time and a third |
| 2 | This is extremely time consuming and it is not always easy to tell whether the grains are what you think if they are not well-preserved . |
| 3 | Given the claims that many alternative therapies make for the treatment of ‘ incurable ’ conditions , many of which are suffered mainly by older people , it is perhaps time for those responsible for the care of older people to investigate the potential of such treatments as homoeopathy , acupuncture , chiropractic , osteopathy , herbalism and many others . |
| 4 | In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction . |
| 5 | In Vietnam , other complaints centred on the lack of industrial development , the stranglehold of French companies and , especially , of the Banque de l'lndochine — a consortium of Paris banks which had a monopoly of banking services — but while one may say that the nature of colonial development or colonial repression in itself created the necessary conditions for revolution or national liberation , it is obviously time to consider how these , and other , factors influenced the forms of Vietnamese resistance . |
| 6 | It is finally time to return to the problem with which we started , to the tension between individual organism and gene as rival candidates for the central role in natural selection . |
| 7 | As York finds , workers prefer not to involve their clients in short-term task processes , but this may be for a multitude of reasons other than that of effectiveness : lack of time ( client participation is generally time consuming ) , agency policy and pressure ( paternalism ) , professional socialization and norms , and so on . |
| 8 | It is generally time consuming involving more sources and therefore more expensive than a reactive search . |
| 9 | It is not time for Labour . |
| 10 | It is not time to give the other chap a chance |
| 11 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 12 | It is not time wasted . |
| 13 | The argument that Linguistics-based courses are impracticable , cited a number of difficulties that are real enough , arguing that there is not time in a course already fragmented , and asserting that there were not enough people equipped to design and teach such courses as we envisaged and advocated . |
| 14 | Each turn in the progression is demonstrated just once and there is not time to show the beginner Annabel developing any rhythm in her skiing . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not time for the kidneys , ’ shouted Auguste . |
| 16 | Here the difference is the stress upon the mother 's role as provider for her children : Orchardson 's work suggests the mother has little physical involvement with the child 's everyday material needs whereas , in Knight 's work , the close physical contact between mother and children and their dress denotes harsh necessity rather than worship — there is not time to ‘ fondly gaze ’ . |
| 17 | I shall not read it out , because there is not time , but it makes the very point that , purely and simply for medium-term policies and commercial reasons , we shall sterilise billions of tonnes of coal . |
| 18 | Another inadequacy about the way that we have to deal with the matter today is that there is not time to debate the issue , which we debated in Committee , about the role of a funding council in strategy and planning . |
| 19 | My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval . |
| 20 | RE should not be expected to bear the full weight of this responsibility , especially because if it does it can not deal with what is distinctive and peculiar to it — there is not time , etc . |
| 21 | We should not be having the same speech from the same group on the same issue at any point and also I would hope that where there is agreement between the groups that there is not time spent in |
| 22 | The preparation of such a document is always time consuming . |
| 23 | Only if you do that will you be able to say with confidence that I am wrong , that what I am suggesting has not yet come to pass , that there is still time . |
| 24 | There is still time for GMA ( GEC , Mowlem , Amec and Greater Manchester Buses ) to consider employing an inspired architect or industrial designer . |
| 25 | There is still time for much of the Third World to be held back from taking the same course . |
| 26 | On the military front there is still time for the war to turn bad , particularly when the ground battle is joined in earnest . |
| 27 | For diehard election party-poopers , however , there is still time to book into the election-free break being offered on Lundy Island , the National Trust 's island in the Bristol Channel . |
| 28 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 29 | For the US there is still time , through the negotiations in Geneva , to display a flexible attitude and to bring about at least a reduction in the number of SS-20s , and hence to reduce the need for cruise . |
| 30 | There is still time for the alliance to rescind its decision of 1979 and turn its attention to more pressing defence priorities . |