Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , speculation remained that the Army distrusted the peace process , and that it believed that the URNG 's motives were designed to buy time and international prestige while it regrouped its forces . |
| 2 | If these strands were antiparallel spin diffusion crosspeaks would be expected to be visible between G2H1 and G5H8 , and vice versa. 5122K data sets were acquired using time proportional phase incrementation ( ref. 31 ) in phase-sensitive mode , with a sweep width of 7,812.5Hz . |
| 3 | His appointment as vice-president in April was intended to buy time . |
| 4 | Ordinary life was halted to allow time for realization of the sorrow to penetrate the layers of defence that we all set up to blunt the terrible pain of loss . |
| 5 | ‘ The reason I advertised for applications in person was to avoid wasting time on preliminary letters , short-listing and so forth . |
| 6 | Otherwise he was forced to waste time giving the whole paper a wash of flat tone each time . |
| 7 | Provoked by abrupt intimacy with a complete stranger who then turned out to be someone she was forced to spend time with , forced to establish a formal business relationship with … ? |
| 8 | I was trying to take time off . |
| 9 | On the day that North Korea 's parliament ratified a nuclear safeguard agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency , the defector said the Pyongyang government was trying to buy time until it could produce its own nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | ‘ I was determined to have time with Maisie . ’ |