Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello , just to tell you they 've finished and gone now so I 'm well within my time schedule . |
| 2 | This invention turned out to be ahead of its time ; U-shaped grooves remained normal until 1939 , and Packman-type cutters only became universal after the Second World War . |
| 3 | I do n't think if you just consider products or a market in the abstract that you can be ahead of your time . |
| 4 | ‘ You seem to be ahead of your time , too . ’ |
| 5 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 6 | Like their Bristolian neighbours , the Frys , they were ahead of their time in fostering friendly relations with their factory workers . |
| 7 | In proposing a rupture between liberal internationalism and nationalist socialism , Hyndman and Blatchford were ahead of their time . |
| 8 | Thucydides credited the Minoan kings with organizing the first naval fleet , and it is possible that the Minoans did indeed have a squadron of specially designed and equipped warships that were ahead of their time . |
| 9 | I liked to think you were ahead of your time in everything ! ’ |
| 10 | That was not the case when the Hargreaves Report was published and was one reason for its being welcomed as being ahead of its time . |
| 11 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 12 | Indeed , in some of his pronouncements Adler seems to have been ahead of his time . |
| 13 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 14 | But he added : ‘ I 'm afraid we are ahead of our time . ’ |
| 15 | She has n't spoken since the day she got here , I 'm told , and that 's long before my time , ’ said Kraal aggressively . |
| 16 | Yet it is Tacoma that is ahead of its time in its pioneering attempts to help drug addicts ( rather a lot of them among its 160,000 inhabitants ) from becoming AIDS sufferers as well . |
| 17 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 18 | He 's ahead of his time . |
| 19 | It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | It was n't in your time , and it was n't in my time . |
| 21 | It was n't in your time , and it was n't in my time . |
| 22 | Although this report was ahead of its time , it is also interesting in respect of the fact that it brought together both the traditional and new Liberals . |
| 23 | The analogue system HDMAC was ahead of its time in the mid-eighties when its development began . |
| 24 | In truth , Gall and Spurzheim 's theory of localization was ahead of its time because there were no suitable methods available for testing it , although test it people did . |
| 25 | Reagan 's campaign for governor in 1966 was a response to the same shifts in public opinion that Goldwater had attempted to exploit , but it was not only in political attitudes that southern California was ahead of its time . |
| 26 | Its only real fault was that it was ahead of its time . |
| 27 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 28 | He was ahead of his time and set the pattern for the post-war development of soccer as a ‘ media event ’ . |
| 29 | It was formed as early as 1805 by the Marchese Tommaso degli Obizzi whose taste in ‘ primitives ’ was ahead of his time . |
| 30 | Hahnemann was ahead of his time in advocating preventive medicine , as well as in his use of homoeopathy . |