Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 2 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 3 | Old Fakrid 's hardly been gone two time units and already our clever First Pilot has begun to sound exactly like him . |
| 4 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 5 | If , after a previously unblemished career , you are taken to task , it may be that your superiors ' requirements are unrealistic or that you have not yet been given sufficient time to adjust to the style of the new regime . |