Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 2 | There is no length to a discussion , unlike a talk where speakers are given a specific time for delivery . |
| 3 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 4 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 5 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 6 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 8 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 9 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 10 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 11 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 12 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 13 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 14 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 15 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 16 | I was asked if I wished my name to be withdrawn a second time but I declined , feeling it would be wrong to have to continue to rely on the goodwill and hospitality of friends in order to continue playing . |
| 17 | In February 1989 the proposed new terms and conditions were outlined by letter to staff and , after subsequent fruitless negotiations with the unions , in April 1989 a notice was sent informing the employees that the changes would be discussed with them , that they would be given a reasonable time to consider the new contracts and that they would be dismissed if they did not accept them . |
| 18 | In all election campaigns , incumbent governments are going to be given a harder time than the Opposition . |
| 19 | Knowing that the fox might be given a bad time afterwards would n't be a lot of consolation . |
| 20 | This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study . |
| 21 | To this must be added the extra time and space demanded in main storage for relatively complex blocking — deblocking routines . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If that freelance photojournalist is wounded , but soon returns to the operational area to continue covering the story , only to be wounded a second time , then we are looking at a fairly remarkable man with a tale worth telling . |
| 24 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 25 | Similarly , a serious case brought before the magistrate had to be presented a second time before the justice of the peace . |
| 26 | but I shall not be drawn a second time |
| 27 | It had to be performed a second time , after the British Consul had taken the couple 's oaths on his diary instead of the Bible . |
| 28 | ‘ Bulk ’ transfer should be used the first time information of a given type is transferred , thereafter this information can be kept up to date with LIFESPAN by use of ‘ incremental ’ transfers . |
| 29 | Note that if this keyword is used without the module 's manager having set a PREFERRED version , an error message will be displayed the next time an attempt is made to read the module out of LIFESPAN . |
| 30 | My colleagues and I do not believe that the British people will be fooled a second time — one can take a horse to water but one can not make it drink . |