Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition Members have said that the council tax is too complex and difficult to be rushed through in time for 1 April 1993 . |
| 2 | It supports the principle of increasing energy prices so that consumers pay the full environmental cost of the resources they use , although it acknowledges that increases would have to be phased in over time , preferably in line with international agreements . |
| 3 | These sites were special and , despite the noise of an adjacent bus station and wailing loudspeaker from a nearby Moslem minaret , it was easy to be whisked back in time and imagine the scene many years ago . |
| 4 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 5 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 6 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 7 | Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town . |