Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on a time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’
2 ‘ We 're living on a time bomb ’
3 Design services will also be performed on a time and materials basis by STB engineering consultants .
4 Design services will also be performed on a time and materials basis by Sparc Technology engineering consultants .
5 A deposit will not be required but our fees will be charged on a time basis at [ say , 150 ] % of our standard mergers and acquisitions rate .
6 DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years .
7 The Centenary exhibition at the Grand Hall , The Colonnades , Albert Dock opens on November 7 and is based on a time tunnel which invites visitors to pass through and visualise the happenings of Shell 's British Tankers fleet .
8 A hybrid form of non-contingent cost based fee arrangement is to quote on a time basis for all work on the basis that the fee is payable whether or not the transaction completes in addition to arranging for a ‘ success fee ’ to be payable eg. a fixed amount on any completion and/or a sliding scale based on some monitor of performance .
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