Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , what are the two types of time signatures ? |
| 2 | ‘ Cambridge , you 're a great waster of time . |
| 3 | When I heard about the business of measuring and weighing I realised that all the care and effort I had put into keeping my secret had probably been a complete waste of time . |
| 4 | And sometimes I wonder whether it has n't all been a complete waste of time . ’ |
| 5 | I always intended to , but I wanted a reason or some credibility to go back with , so that our gesture was n't completely fruitless or looked as if it had been a complete waste of time . |
| 6 | Could have been a bloody waste of time . |
| 7 | David Sharod said yesterday , after being cleared by magistrates on a charge of abandoning his tropical fish : ‘ It 's been a total waste of time and money . ’ |
| 8 | The distances doctors cover are a great waste of time … some spend up to four hours a day walking from department to department . |
| 9 | The task of education business partnerships is to create , improve , protect and champion good learning environments ; if they do n't do this , they are an expensive waste of time and resources . |
| 10 | The duration of this period was determined by what was understood to be the minimum length of time that an unemployed person would have to work In order to reopen rights to unemployment benefits . |
| 11 | ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’ |
| 12 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 13 | The Norwich civil servant thought the trip would be a complete waste of time after arriving to find the lake completely frozen over but the pike fed furiously for three hours . |
| 14 | More important , if the trade unions negotiate important concessions with the board , the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister himself , will they be incorporated into the legislation before it is enacted , or will the meetings be a complete waste of time ? |
| 15 | His head dipped towards her , and she braced herself for another of his harsh , punishing kisses , knowing any attempt at escape would be a complete waste of time . |
| 16 | Looks like its gon na be a complete waste of time watching next years WC . |
| 17 | For one thing it was impossible to say , and for another it would be a deplorable waste of time . |
| 18 | I 'd actually prefer to send you to that than go to it myself , because I think that would be a better use of time . |
| 19 | The proposal by the then second lieutenant was addressed directly to the Commander-in-Chief Middle East , as Stirling knew full well that ‘ going through channels ’ would be a total waste of time . |
| 20 | All this effort turned out to be a total waste of time because , in the event , only a few bars of ‘ Music of the Night ’ wheezed from the instrument , and that so sotto voce that it could scarcely be heard . |
| 21 | It showed that it was not going to be a profitable venture over time . |
| 22 | In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts . |
| 23 | Whenever there was an increase in time spent on that area described as ‘ other ’ in the analysis sheet , there appeared to be a corresponding decrease in time with pupils and on curriculum development . |
| 24 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 25 | If , however , people believe that it will be a slow rise over time , they will want to buy sterling assets ( such as UK government bonds ) rather than money , since such assets will also earn the holder a rate of interest . |
| 26 | Gerry was taught to drive in nineteen forty six in the States , where they , they gone , they 'd gone over to total automatic , and he despised manual gears , thought they were a ridiculous waste of time and effort , said you want to concentrate on the , on the road , not on the car , but then you see Gerry improved himself , he was a |
| 27 | There were no games , partly because they did n't know any , partly because all five were united , in this if in nothing else , in the belief that dice , cards , charades , were a frivolous waste of time . |
| 28 | Working in groups offers an enjoyable contrast to individual work and is also an effective form of therapeutic intervention , as well as being a cost-efficient use of time . |
| 29 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 30 | Indeed it seems to be rather characteristic , as is the close coincidence in time of episodes of mass extinction and radiation of a wide variety of animal and plant groups , both terrestrial and marine . |