Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It is , therefore , a site of some strategic significance in any military context , a fact which has been recognized continuously since Roman times , when , at least under Agricola if not before , a fort was established here .
2 This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century .
3 She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time .
4 The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it .
5 Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan .
6 Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister .
7 In Holland , it is a different situation as most of the players are students and those that are n't are compensated financially for additional time off work .
8 Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases .
9 The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs .
10 While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system .
11 The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century .
12 What is ‘ in the public interest ’ and what is ‘ against the public interest ’ ( there may , of course , be actions which fall into neither category ) has been interpreted differently at various times .
13 I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there .
14 It seems reasonable to assume that the arrangements could be completed effectively within that time .
15 Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times .
16 First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place .
17 Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal .
18 ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’
19 These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial .
20 Whatever he is doing , you must remember that he must be positioned correctly at all times to prevent his spasticity from increasing .
21 He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time .
22 If weather permits and the soil is n't too cold and wet , the following crops can be sown outdoors at this time .
23 It is planned that the road will be closed again between those times from midnight on March 21 .
24 ( To reduce the risk of over-speeding with modern machines , the airbrakes can be opened fully at any time during the spin or the recovery . )
25 ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’
26 They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting .
27 The ‘ opposition ’ governors imagine themselves to be more important than they really are ; they have state , not federal , responsibilities ; their comments on federal matters should therefore not be regarded as of primary importance ; and , if they were reported fully at all times , this would be giving them a greater prominence in national affairs than they deserve .
28 Yet once that dominant interest existed , the option of directing available money away from consumers to producers was no longer real if the system were to grow sufficiently in good times , survive in bad .
29 Vron and Barry were crying again by that time , crying gratefully , consolably , in each other 's arms .
30 Heads were swivelling completely round this time — to the back row where sat Phil Aldrich , nodding his head in gentle agreement , a wry smile on his long , lugubrious face .
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