Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 2 | ‘ How can you be so sure of the time ? ’ |
| 3 | The long residence time even means that short-lived radioactive substances , such as those released by the Chernobyl accident , will be largely harmless by the time they emerge from an aquifer . |
| 4 | ‘ Can you be more precise about the time , Mrs Brown ? |
| 5 | The speed will then be dangerously low by the time that the nose has been lowered , and even more speed will be lost during the descent through the wind gradient . |
| 6 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 7 | Gold Australe can reach up to ½″ in size in three weeks and they can be sexually mature by the time they are 12 weeks old . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be fully fit by the time of the international . |
| 9 | It is important to realize that the scope of a scheme which apparently focuses on a relatively narrow area may be quite wide by the time all fringe topics ( which are relevant to or have some impact upon the core area ) have been noted . |
| 10 | General evidence of the activities of that society would be quite sufficient for the time being . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , they 've just got plastic bows and arrows , ’ said Tess , ‘ but we reckon that if a burglar 's been squirted with ammonia and slashed with a sword and pelted with ball-bearings and wooden balls his resistance is going to be pretty low by the time he reaches the kids ’ bedroom , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 12 | He 'd be half blind by the time he stopped for sleep , his vision clunking with green and purple balls . |
| 13 | I thought we 'd be too bollocksed by the time we get up there anyway . |
| 14 | It 'll be too late by the time I make them understand . |
| 15 | Alisa Morrant realised that she had to target new mothers — it would be too late by the time the children attended the dentist for fillings . |
| 16 | You know I always we shall be too late by the time we get out |
| 17 | We 'll have to wait before we can be absolutely certain of the time and manner of death , but from what we know already , it looks , yet again , as if any of those old buggers could have done it . ’ |