Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in a time " in BNC.
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1 | In Fig 36 an example is given of a holding pattern that has been completed in a time of 4 mins 28 secs . |
2 | Only two of Ulster 's 32 clubs play their hockey on grass and Gavin realises that Portrush are caught in a time warp which could hinder the North West outfit 's progress . |
3 | Poland had been trapped in a time capsule , and try as it might to struggle free , the parameters of its political and spiritual life had been set firm for years to come by the humiliation of invisibility . |
4 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
5 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |
6 | People aim at achievements to be completed in a time process and talk about how they order their priorities accordingly . |
7 | They seem to be locked in a time warp but this has become their biggest selling point because , by remaining stubbornly unlike every other manufacturer , their instruments can not fail to be distinctive . |
8 | In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] . |
9 | In early September Collor had summoned for the first time the Council of the Republic , whose remit was to advise the President on action to be taken in a time of deep crisis or emergency , including the declaration of a state of siege if necessary . |
10 | A secret ca n't be kept in a time warp . |
11 | Surely it is about time England and Wales came into line with the rest of Europe regarding access instead of being trapped in a time capsule . |
12 | In brief , both Lanfranc and Anselm were living in a time when the ancient consensus of local testimony , which had sufficed in the past for most matters of faith and practice , was being subordinated to more formal legal and rational procedures . |
13 | What we had at Maastricht was old hat ; it was living in a time warp . |