Example sentences of "[be] [verb] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily : |
| 2 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 3 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 4 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 5 | any employee attending court as a witness on behalf of the employee involved will be granted time off work with pay for this purpose . |
| 6 | The fragrance can be revitalised time after time with oils supplied ( £2.99 . ) |
| 7 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 8 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 9 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 10 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 11 | We would not be taking time off work , making all kinds of out-of-the-usual arrangements , unless we thought it was important to go to the funeral as a mark of how we feel about the person who had died , and wanted to ‘ pay our respects ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The important thing is to increase time before pace ; so walk at a moderate pace for 30 minutes , gently stretching yourself as you go . |
| 18 | The first thing a Minister in charge of a department sponsoring a Bill has to do is negotiate time from the Leader of the House for his Bill . |
| 19 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |
| 20 | His wounded country needs time and international tolerance to recover and , accepting the inevitable , he is buying time with a series of compromises . |
| 21 | He 's doing time in Whitely as well . |
| 22 | The average Tube-goer 's travelling time to work is 52 minutes and rising by several seconds every week . |
| 23 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
| 24 | And it is because the new humanity is made up of free men and women that God wishes that all should be saved : his delay in invading the world and bringing an end to history is to allow time for the new humanity to supplant the old . |
| 25 | Yes and I 'm gon na give you this sheet which it 's to save time for drawing it . |
| 26 | ‘ We are trying to play a different type of game and it 's taking time for some of the players to get used to it . |
| 27 | The Red crew gained a length by the mile post and 2 ½ by Hammersmith Bridge , but the freshmen hung on to lose by about the same margin , six seconds behind Red Alligator 's winning time of 19min 46sec . |
| 28 | So the first priority is to spend time in cultivating friendships . |
| 29 | The Soviet Union is offering time on the Salyut 7 X-ray telescopes not only to France , but also to Holland , West Germany and the European Space Agency . |
| 30 | This explains why the general election was delayed time after time : clearly , all that mattered was the recession . |