Example sentences of "be [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 2 | This question is particularly important for institutions which are investing time in making their own video recordings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am afraid time is running out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We would not be able to tell what the enemy 's intentions are this time , ’ Kopyion replied . |
| 10 | The Tests themselves have been carefully scrutinized for balance and consistency to ensure they are reliable time and time again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 13 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's been some time . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That must of been some time ago |
| 21 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 22 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps we tend not to see this year 's household survey as an historical datum because it is the human condition to flatter ourselves that our own lives are outside time , and therefore outside history . |
| 24 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well no I do n't work on the nights anyway , you know we 're full time so full time just do n't work nights |
| 27 | We are misled time after time after time when people have problems like they 're having their vehicle serviced , it 's put a claim in for a water pump , and have the cost of their service paid for . |
| 28 | Volunteers can help clients more effectively if they are allocated time for tasks other than direct interviewing . |
| 29 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 30 | 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 . |