Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill , Roger and Vincent you will be the respective time keepers okay I 'll give you timing in due course but remember to give a two minute warning which is the rap on the desk make sure going on and you will find out the role plays will or may run over time . |
| 2 | We shall be a long time in Isvik . |
| 3 | But it may be a long time coming ; and , meanwhile , the flow of hopefuls from the south shows no sign of stopping . |
| 4 | ‘ It may be a long time before you get another offer like that ! ’ |
| 5 | Everyone knows that if this time round , there is political instability , it may be a long time before Pakistan gets yet another chance at election . |
| 6 | It may be an appropriate time to revisit casework theory and research in order to help us to understand and isolate the variables which are important to successful outcome for long-term case management intervention , particularly the clinical model . |
| 7 | With its dependence on consumer spending , Lionheart has found that , though it may be an easy time to buy businesses , generating sales is more problematic . |
| 8 | For the visitor to the city each will offer very different experiences and with two new directors adding their own personalities to the space , it should be an interesting time for both . |
| 9 | It must be a long time , he thought , since Dad had travelled this far . |
| 10 | It must be a long time since they were cleaned ; they are very dirty . |
| 11 | It must be a long time since anyone — except the most die-hard old buffer — can have thought them outrageous . |
| 12 | ‘ It must be a dreadful time . |
| 13 | She wished she could think of something to say that would make him trust her , only after her stupid behaviour earlier she thought it might be a long time before he fully believed her . |
| 14 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 15 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 16 | On Microsoft 's Windows New Technology , the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 17 | McNealy-on-NT : the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 18 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 19 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 20 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 22 | But if it 's something mechanical , like a car , erm stereo equipment , erm a home computer something like that , a washing machine , it could be a long time before a mechanical fault became apparent . |
| 23 | It 'd be a full time job I should say , possibly one or two posts and perhaps even more than that . |
| 24 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 25 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 26 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 27 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 28 | He laughed and said it was beyond his remit and that it would be a long time before public health became a genuine national concept . |
| 29 | I parted with a feeling that it would be a long time before I earned her forgiveness , but I did her an injustice . |
| 30 | It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World . |