Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] time before " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 2 | But it will be a long time before that system is fully installed . |
| 3 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 4 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 5 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 6 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 7 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 8 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
| 9 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |
| 10 | American manufacturers share this scepticism , ‘ It will be a long time before there 's any international graphics standard , ’ says Dave Robertson , head of the US company Computervision 's British operation . |
| 11 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 13 | ‘ It will be a long time before I see you again , Willie , ’ she said . |
| 14 | The green shoots of recovery may now be twitching but it will be a long time before the unemployment figures level off . |
| 15 | Although it will probably be a long time before we are prepared to let robots perform operations on us , Pam will be ready for trials next year , and her potential for cutting the 750,000 nursing days lost each year through back strain may make her popular with medical staff and patients alike . |
| 16 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 17 | ‘ It will be a long time before Patrick walks unaided but I know he will swing along with his sticks and be independent . |
| 18 | On Microsoft 's Windows New Technology , the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 19 | The lieutenant believed ‘ it will be a long time before he can expect to be advanced to be captain in so old a corps . |
| 20 | McNealy-on-NT : the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 21 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 22 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 23 | It was to be a long time before I slotted this experience into others to make sense of it all . |
| 24 | He laughed and said it was beyond his remit and that it would be a long time before public health became a genuine national concept . |
| 25 | And it 's going to be a long time before it 's going to be possible , so therefore we still have to use animals , I see no way round it . |
| 26 | It could accordingly be a long time before resolutely indolent or constitutionally inept directors regarded the problems of raising money as a reason for modifying their behaviour . |
| 27 | ‘ It may be a long time before you get another offer like that ! ’ |
| 28 | I parted with a feeling that it would be a long time before I earned her forgiveness , but I did her an injustice . |
| 29 | But if it 's something mechanical , like a car , erm stereo equipment , erm a home computer something like that , a washing machine , it could be a long time before a mechanical fault became apparent . |
| 30 | It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World . |