Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 2 | To this must be added the extra time and space demanded in main storage for relatively complex blocking — deblocking routines . |
| 3 | Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else . |
| 4 | ‘ But we were drunk the whole time on the aphrodisiac of youth . ’ |
| 5 | Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’ |
| 6 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 7 | I really do n't I think he 's acting the whole time , I do n't think he knows he 's doing it . |
| 8 | No he 's , he 's , he 's just out to impress people , I mean he looks around to see if you 're watching him and he 'll erm no , yeah he 's acting the whole time , I do n't really , I do n't know if he knows who he is you know ? |
| 9 | If a clock travels from P 1 to P 2 then the time interval it measures between these events is called the proper time Δτ , with . |
| 10 | Well I think so , I think erm as long as they can go and work with children and then they 've got the time when they can leave off and come , but it 's having the whole time , well then they 've children all their life have n't they ? |
| 11 | Unless a company is progressing the whole time , it is , in fact , moving backwards . |
| 12 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 13 | While I was getting the Irish Times yesterday I happen to see the back page of the Sun ; - ) where Fergies autobiog is being serialised . |
| 14 | Designed for the latitude of a particular place , its most important use was to determine the precise time of day or night from an observation of the altitude of the sun or one of the stars mapped on the rete , but of course by modern standards the result was not very accurate . |
| 15 | The primary purpose was to reduce the costly time spent on oral argument in so far as that was not necessary for the proper determination fo the appeal . |
| 16 | He was learning the whole time , today one thing , tomorrow another , this year well , next year better . " |