Example sentences of "[pron] is [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is a long time to go without It . |
| 2 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 3 | My father had a and he said it would be forty seven , say it would likely be forty seven , but that 's forty seven is two year eight month away , which is a long time for me to keep it going . |
| 4 | I think candidates who are thinking of applying for entry in nineteen eighty-five , who are now say seventeen coming on eighteen , have got three or four years ahead of them at university , which is a considerable time , and if nothing else , university will make them question themselves , what their interests are , and they 'll introduce them to new subjects , new areas of study , and it may be a mistake to embark on a vocational course , and discover halfway through that actually it 's not what you want to do . |
| 5 | A couple of times a month she has a drink with the women at work , which is the only time she goes out . |
| 6 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 7 | There should be no major reconstruction of the industry while we are in the middle of a recession , which is the worst time for such a reconstruction . |
| 8 | Blake spoke to one of the warders , which is the last time anyone can remember seeing him . |
| 9 | Yes she is a full time worker |
| 10 | John , who is a full time shift worker , has been polishing off most the Peak 's F8a+ in good time , having also recently red-pointed Boat Boys , Chimes of Freedom as well as making the 6th ascent of Zeke the Freak ( F8b ) . |
| 11 | By contrast , the time limit for actions in private law is at least three years , and for judicial review applications made outside Ord. 53 there is no fixed time limit : delay in applying is just a factor to be taken into account when the court exercises its discretion whether or not to award a declaration or injunction . |
| 12 | There is no other time but now . |
| 13 | In order to understand what you would see if you were watching a star collapse to form a black hole , one has to remember that in the theory of relativity there is no absolute time . |
| 14 | The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation . |
| 15 | But there is no further time for speculation and reflection on the Enlightenment , because one of the false views of humanity ( the collectivist kind ) , after ticking away like a time bomb , explodes in a political event of such fury and consequence that the gentle yet élitist world of the Enlightenment philosophers is destroyed for ever . |
| 16 | Even if a " bill " succeeds at this stage , there is no further time allocated for the remaining stages and so , unless the Government gives up some of its time , the bill will not proceed further . |
| 17 | There is no more time . |
| 18 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 19 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 20 | There is a set time allowed for the council to receive comments on an application . |
| 21 | There is a long time until anyone has to think about Christmas shopping . |
| 22 | The intuition behind this result is that , when there is a long time to the delivery date , there is still much time for new information to affect the delivery price , and therefore any single piece of information is relatively unimportant . |
| 23 | The method can work if there is a long time for the change-over , if both channels can be kept open and if it does not matter that the two systems are being used haphazardly . |
| 24 | The current yield is therefore only really useful when there is a long time to maturity , in which case the capital gain or loss element will be small . |
| 25 | There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons . |
| 26 | ( Weeping ) There is a proper time and place to tell children . |
| 27 | There is a natural time scale to the experiment , charging the cells , inducing the phenomenon for hundreds of hours and monitoring at different currents ; you can not hurry science . |
| 28 | There is a statutory time limit of six years for claims under contracts under hand , and twelve if the contract is under seal : Limitation Act 1980 ss5 and 8 . |
| 29 | Erm because he would like to make a comment on the exceptions policy , he has n't been invited to participate tomorrow , er I have exercised some latitude and said yes I will be happy to hear what he has to say , erm there is a prescribed time limit of which he is aware . |
| 30 | Usually , there is an optimum time in which to complete the course — every three seconds over the optimum time incurs one time penalty . |