Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 32 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 33 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 34 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 35 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 36 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 37 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 38 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 39 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 40 | Each night the teachers had to take turns checking that the students were in their dormitories , and the lights were out at an appropriate time . |
| 41 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |
| 42 | There are fears that Wall Street , which this week hit a peak , is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks . |
| 43 | Geoff Wildinson , assistant director for filed work , recognises the SSD is in for a tough time . |
| 44 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 45 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 46 | that may mean that we meet a demoralized norwich team away on saturday — or — that they got boosted by their fine performance — ekoku was back after a long time injury for norwich . |
| 47 | He was out for a good time , which might well involve finishing the evening with a fight . |
| 48 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |