Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference here in June agreed that voluntary repatriation should be given time to work and that only then would ‘ alternative measures ’ — including compulsory repatriation — be considered . |
| 2 | This is healing and renewing and should be given time . |
| 3 | The subject of the appraisal should be given time to prepare and the opportunity to corroborate the report . |
| 4 | All teachers should be given time to get to know the machines they are expected to use as well as the materials they will use with them . |
| 5 | A second reason , expressed by small businessmen , market women and clergymen , is the feeling that the economic growth and stability enjoyed during the seven years of Mr Museveni 's presidency should be allowed time to bear fruit , before the country is divided along party lines . |
| 6 | As a single mother with two children , he said , she should be allowed time to find alternative accomodation . |
| 7 | ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll be doing time again for this , Devlin , ’ said Duvall . |
| 9 | These kinds of incidents could be repeated time and time again , and nor were black eyes and bruises the only injuries sustained . |
| 10 | But as I say as paying the er r I , I 've seen them when I 'm going round the site er I got an option from the firm , I 'd be allowed time off my work , my actual work on the , on the , on the site , to go round and collect their unions dues . |
| 11 | Let's see you 'd be to correct time scale . |
| 12 | Employees may be given time off for house hunting or may be expected to do this at weekends . |
| 13 | These may be trying times for estate agents but Croome Court 's still expected to go for one and a half million pounds |
| 14 | Secondly , if the tenant is entitled to break at a specified date linked to a rent review , the effect of the break-clause may be to make time of the essence as far as the review is concerned ( United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley Borough Council [ 1977 ] 2 All ER 62 at 77 , 98 ) . |
| 15 | If , for example , a haulage company wished to acquire a Volvo heavy goods vehicle as an addition to its existing mixed Meet of lorries , it would be given time — say , three years — to repay the sum borrowed , paying interest at a commercial rate each month for 36 months . |
| 16 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 17 | any employee attending court as a witness on behalf of the employee involved will be granted time off work with pay for this purpose . |
| 18 | Intermediate sprints help towards this prize and the peloton will be split time and again . |
| 19 | The client who presents a single problem will be allowed time to explore several ; the client who appears with a threatened electricity disconnection will be given time to expose other debts ; CAB workers are more aware of the place of industrial tribunals , of medical appeals and of welfare rights case law . |
| 20 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 21 | The client who presents a single problem will be allowed time to explore several ; the client who appears with a threatened electricity disconnection will be given time to expose other debts ; CAB workers are more aware of the place of industrial tribunals , of medical appeals and of welfare rights case law . |
| 22 | The fragrance can be revitalised time after time with oils supplied ( £2.99 . ) |
| 23 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |