Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgin 's payments had all been made on time , and as far as he was aware there was no problem at all . |
| 2 | Jacopo della Quercia has never enjoyed the popularity of his fellow sculptors Ghiberti and Donatello , and his works have not been favoured by time . |
| 3 | It went against the grain with Hotspur to let such an illustrious company move south unchallenged into England , merely because they had not been intercepted in time to confront them on reasonably equal terms . |
| 4 | There are obvious attractions in affording the Registrar an additional weapon in the form of a penalty recoverable by civil suit to which there is no defence once it is shown that accounts have not been delivered on time . |
| 5 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , however , that contributions to the main United Nations budget have not in the past always been paid on time or in full , even by members of the Security Council . |
| 7 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 8 | This view was reflected by one observer in Rabat , who said : ‘ He ( King Hassan ) has so clearly been playing for time . |
| 9 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 10 | Indeed , if all else had failed — if the supplies had seldom been delivered on time , if the contras had declined to fight , if the money had gone astray , if the planes had crashed — the cause was still something that was simply right , whatever sort of mess had resulted . |