Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only real progress has come in learning how to drive those evaluation routines faster and faster , thus allowing larger numbers of positions to be examined in the time available . |
| 2 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 3 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 4 | The old slums in Wallace Street have gone now , replaced nearby by a small , neat council estate of flats and maisonettes ; across the main road there 's a sixties estate of dour concrete so riddled with damp and concrete corrosion that it may be demolished by the time this book is published . |
| 5 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 6 | Try to decide what are the essential aspects to be covered in the time available . |
| 7 | In all , 838 post-1976 imprints were identified , and in 814 instances ( 97% ) the method of acquisition was determined ; in the remaining cases , which principally concerned newspapers and serials — types of publication which are stamped in a different way from monographs — the method of acquisition could not be established in the time available . |