Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 2 | Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years . |
| 3 | From long experience he knew that one of the roads to problem solving was to allow time for the sub-conscious mind to operate . |
| 4 | Lenin was quoted time and again in every article , in every monograph . |
| 5 | In his last illness Charlie Thomson was granted time to compose his mind and convey his messages . |
| 6 | It is admitted that the object of the preliminary issue was to save time and money ; the compromise issue and the cancellation required to be decided in any event and if first decided and in favour of the respondents would render unnecessary any further expenditure of time and money . |
| 7 | FESTIVAL comedy queen Pauline Daniels was taking time out from her Royal duties today . |
| 8 | She did so by lifting one of Chase 's Doc Martin 's ( the other was keeping time ) and pushing the joint under it . |
| 9 | Of course Jordan was taking time off to talk to him , and of course he was observed , probably on all sides . |
| 10 | Also , as West Ham were wasting time the whole match ( until we scored ) , why do referees play the injury/extra time ? |
| 11 | The extension was to allow time for fresh nominations . |
| 12 | A lesson Jess was to learn time and again in the coming weeks . |
| 13 | Nancy Graves was working in the 1970s on ‘ ocean Floor , Weather , Moon and mars ’ and the ‘ Antartica ’ mapping series ( now in the National Gallery , Washington ) ; Vera Frankel was mapping time in ‘ nap with Gates ’ and ‘ The Knowles Window ’ in 1973 ; 9 Adrian Piper in 1969 had produced booklets of her mapping activities ; Alice Aycock used her master 's thesis 1971 ( researched under Robert Morris ) as the basis of a work about network systems . |
| 14 | While children were spending time on task and on different curriculum areas in similar proportions to those identified in other studies , it was also clear that such figures are by no means inevitable or appropriate . |
| 15 | Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised . |
| 16 | So Douglas 's horn was blown time and again in the recall . |
| 17 | My idea was to spend time fossicking in the gold-fields , before joining the eastbound service of the Indian-Pacific on its appointed day . |
| 18 | If the operative part could properly be controlled by the recitals , I think there would be much reason to say that the only thing contemplated by the recitals was giving time for payment , without any relinquishment , on the part of the judgment creditor , of any portion of the amount recoverable ( whether for principal or for interest ) under the judgment . |
| 19 | The purpose of the change was to save time and money , but the change is not wholly welcome , because in practice it will draw an even sharper distinction between represented and unrepresented parties . |
| 20 | This explains why the general election was delayed time after time : clearly , all that mattered was the recession . |
| 21 | Demolition day was a cause for celebration , schoolchildren were given time off to watch and tenants ' leaders said not before time . |
| 22 | Those Germans not knocked out by the week-long bombardment were given time to reach their gun positions , and they poured an unremitting enfilade of lead at the doomed British soldiers . |
| 23 | Its only value was to allow time for English Nature and the other national successor bodies to the NCC to apply " moral pressure " . |