Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The liduid emptying half time was correspondingly shorter in the patients with idiopathic DU ( median 28 min ( range 22–38 ) ) than in the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 39 ( 35–66 ) ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 2 | The solid emptying half time was correspondingly shorter in the patients with idiopathic DU ( median 67 min ( range 11–221 ) ) compared with the H pylori positive patients with DU ( 180 ( 62–1500 ; p<0.01 ) and H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 431 ( 58–838 ) ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 3 | Hospitals close , trains stop , radar goes on the blink , satellites spin wordlessly in space , and for everyone dialling long distance or local calls , the pips announce that time is finally up . |
| 4 | As though it does n't matter that time is going on . |
| 5 | In practice , almost anything : after '83 and '87 , whatever happens this time is going to be a huge advance . |
| 6 | you all to try and do this time is to avoid if you can mouthing words , mouthing dialogue . |
| 7 | Entering the third year of the Intifada , it is more than ever clear that time is of the essence : how to keep it going long enough at a level which does not yield to the temptations of ruinous , reciprocal escalation , but still disturbs the outside world enough to get them to bring the Israeli extremists to heel . |
| 8 | To be then told that time is short is contrary to the client 's hopes and expectations . |
| 9 | that 's when they 'll start , that 's what happened last time were n't it ? |
| 10 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
| 11 | Are you going to do another world tour ? — I know that time 's ticking away . |
| 12 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 13 | ‘ What we have to do this time is to maintain that atmosphere , produce another good performance against Turkey and this time get the result we deserved against Norway . |
| 14 | Women who worked full time were particularly likely to use the child 's grandmother ( 44 per cent of them did this ) ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 , p. 39 , table 4.10 ) . |
| 15 | Can I just mention that time is getting on and the Parish Council still has n't discussed this |
| 16 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 17 | If the one we crossed this time was a steep climb and then a pleasant sweep into a warm green valley , and not the mountains of the moon , I was the better pleased , because although it was different it was also wonderful , and because I felt instinctively that the heights must be earned . |
| 18 | The procession that attended this time was impressive : |
| 19 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 20 | See that thing you had whe when the bar was taken this time was that just for tax like |
| 21 | This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time , and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations . |
| 22 | So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic , and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like . |
| 23 | For animals in a group , each individual spends less time being vigilant and more time feeding , but the overall level of watchfulness is increased simply because there are more pairs of eyes looking out . |
| 24 | In fact , the only thing likely to take any time is deciding which to have . |
| 25 | Should the parties agree that time is to be of the essence ? |
| 26 | It was held that time was not of the essence . |
| 27 | It was held that time was of the essence . |
| 28 | Boris , a quiet , humorous Scot from Aberdeen , is 30 now and he knows that time is not on his side as he tries to improve his world ranking of 35 . |
| 29 | The aide continued : ‘ She knows that time is not on her side . |
| 30 | But possibly most crucial of all , Cardus knows that time is running out . |