Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 THE auction of LFA sheep quota by Lawrie & Symington at Lanark last week has confirmed most expectations of market prices but Ministry of Agriculture specialists have given warning that farmers are gambling if they trade before the transfer rules are confirmed some time next month .
2 These seemingly harmless four words are repeated several times to form the lyric ‘ As clouds roll by for you and I ’ .
3 Envelopes or labels are typed each time a story goes out .
4 No fighters were seen this time .
5 Last Winter they suffered the worst floods for fifty years , with some homes being hit three times .
6 She enjoyed attending to the whitewashed chapel where compulsory prayers were conducted three times a day and did not feel ill-used when Mrs Prynn chastised her with a whip for letting slip a blasphemy or lying abed longer than she ought .
7 One of these keys is pressed each time that component is visible under the cross hairs of the microscope .
8 According to Wilson , welfare payments were the " prime engine " powering the state 's budget deficit , and the number of welfare recipients was rising four times faster than the population at large .
9 In October 1989 the rouble for personal transactions was devalued 10 times , primarily to discourage visitors from changing money on the black market ( where one US dollar could buy 15 roubles or more ) .
10 Finally , check with your airline , airport or travel agent regarding check-in times — some airlines are allowing more time for extra security searches
11 It is done in spring or early summer on outdoor plants , and rooting may take up to a year ; pot plants are layered any time and should root in a few weeks .
12 Good historical practice will usually ensure that the attainment targets are covered many times over in the course of the work .
13 Beads were washed three times with 0.5 SSC and added to total RNA .
14 Nests were checked 2–6 times a week .
15 He observed that few libraries had developed a comprehensive approach to stock management , and that , on average , university libraries were acquiring eight times as many materials as they discarded .
16 The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife .
17 The filters were washed two times in 50ml of 0.5 M sodium phosphate , pH 6.8 for 10 min to remove the unincorporated radioactivity .
18 Following removal of probe , filters were washed 3 times ( 300 mls/filter 5 minutes each change ) with HYB100 + 1% marvel , well dried and exposed to X-ray film .
19 Filters were washed three times with PBS-0.05% Tween 20 .
20 The filters were washed three times in PBS-0.05% Tween 20 .
21 Filters were rinsed several times at room temperature in a solution containing 0.1×SSC and 0.05% sodium dodecyl sulphate ( SDS ) to remove excess hybridisation solution and then washed at 55°C for 15 minutes in the same solution for detection of the PGA or PGC sequences .
22 No Japanese or US banks were involved Financial Times 7 May
23 Zooming is carried out by repeating pixel values , so that zooming by a factor of four implies that each pixel value in the memory bank or banks is repeated four times , and each line of the image is also repeated four times .
24 Since strictly military affairs are involved this time , the eyes of the generals were opened , too …
25 If both consultants and house officers are to give dedicated time to education , then less clinical work will be achieved and waiting lists will grow longer .
26 Around 20 officers are working full time on tracking down the rapist .
27 As things have changed round here , things are changing present time er which has so much , however , and there are other areas er just report will be reconsidered er and the right sort of er er area of cover er that we would wish to see and just cutting services , we 're talking about improving resources from an area which is clear to areas where there is no further issue , or etc. , etc. , there is not adequate cover .
28 The experiments were repeated many times with similar results which were highly significant statistically .
29 However , the antibacterial properties of some Penicillium moulds were observed several times from the 1870s onwards , and Lord Lister treated a patient with a preparation of Penicillium before Fleming was born .
30 The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time .
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