Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | The interest rates are low at the present time . |
| 3 | FAMILY SIZE — Though , in other contexts , it may refer to the size of the family ( i.e. the number of family members ) , in connection with fertility studies it usually denotes the number of live births to a woman ( sometimes only those children who are alive at a given time , e.g. at the time of the observation ) . |
| 4 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 5 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 6 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 7 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 8 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 9 | Whatever you choose , you 're sure of a good time . |
| 10 | ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’ |
| 11 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 12 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 13 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 14 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 15 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 16 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 17 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 18 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 19 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 20 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 21 | Although no separate figures are yet available on short-term care facilities , the consensus is that they are inadequate at the present time . |
| 22 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 23 | Because the spores are viable for a short time , Laboulbeniales are effectively restricted to arthropod hosts that have overlapping generations , especially in temperate regions ; that is they can not easily establish relations with those insects in which all the adults die at the end of the summer , with the species surviving in the form of larvae or pupae . |
| 24 | CD trials , with teachers who are new both to the unit and to the computer system , are important at the present time because most teacher users will be in this category . |
| 25 | I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’ |
| 26 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 27 | By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , it wo n't be dark for a long time yet . |
| 29 | But I 'll leave the door open , and it wo n't be dark for a long time . |
| 30 | … the correct comparison is not with any man but with an hypothetical man who would also be unavailable at the critical time . |