Example sentences of "[det] the time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | and what women are experiencing half the time is perfectly rational . |
| 2 | In a class where almost half the time is spent on administrative matters , the time left over for active engagement in learning tasks is severely curtailed . |
| 3 | People who work outdoors all the time are more at risk here . |
| 4 | The people who belong to the underground all the time are very few , but almost everyone had spent a season there . |
| 5 | Now , you can have it by the written word and the spoken word , but I think the links we must continually have all the time are personal links , talking to people . |
| 6 | Cos you 're chatting all the time are n't you ? |
| 7 | You 're trying to , you 're trying to avoid being starved all the time are n't you darling ? |
| 8 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 9 | There 's people with dogs down here all the time are n't they ? |
| 10 | People ringing up about it and talking about it all the time are n't they ? |
| 11 | You 're not really wearing them braces all the time are you ? |
| 12 | And they 're all the time are they ? |
| 13 | You can be nice with a slight edge of cynicism like Ludovic Kennedy , Alan Whicker or Desmond Lynam but , in adult television at least , being pleasant about everything all the time is best left to constitutional monarchs . |
| 14 | ‘ The idea that we want to be deal-makers all the time is something I would n't subscribe to , ’ he says , then adds , ‘ but we are only just starting ’ . |
| 15 | You 're normally never alone in prison , especially being in a dorm with eight people , and if you 're not used to it , the constant noise of people around you all the time is awful . |
| 16 | Because it 's doing this thing all the time is n't it ? |
| 17 | The logic of constructing courses so that students recognise the importance of language all the time is very compelling . |
| 18 | The point I am trying to make all the time is that erosion and deposition have frequently in the past been very short-term phenomena . |
| 19 | Losing his Filofax all the time is a problem . |
| 20 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 21 | Being 100% negative all the time is another . |
| 22 | What all the time is is ? |
| 23 | So I mean , now it 's apparent why he was there all the time is n't it , you know ? |
| 24 | Yeah , it 's been on all the time is n't it ? |
| 25 | What we plead with the government all the time is allow us a regime , a financial regime , that is reasonable and stable in order to do that . |
| 26 | Purchases are up more than I thought people purchasing all the time is , that 's fine , they 've got a system , we can describe that in a paragraph here and that 'll satisfy them but there 's more of a problem when we 're buying in the software , more than a one off thing . |
| 27 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 28 | Now i , say it 's all this backwards and forwardsing all the time were n't there ? |
| 29 | All the time was hers to work through her story/ fantasy ( ? ) /love letter . |
| 30 | Policing the extended coastline all the time was well-nigh impossible , and few of the upper classes were prepared to face the tax loads an efficient preventive service would require . |