Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odds are shortening all the time against him emerging as a big time trainer in his own right . |
| 2 | Different opinions are given all the time . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't believe in the fatal decline of the written word , ’ says Mr Fontaine , ‘ but we are competing all the time — not so much against television , because the screen image and the printed word complement each other , as against magazines , and against the time people spend getting to work and then their leisure time — against music and the cinema . ’ |
| 4 | If it seems you are training hard — perhaps you are fatigued all the time — you are probably training at too high a level . |
| 5 | Living in a totalitarian system , he said , ‘ you are taught all the time that it 's unbreakable . |
| 6 | We wanted to see if Isabella and Edgar Linton are punished all the time by their parents , as we are . ’ |
| 7 | However , advances are happening all the time . |
| 8 | More are appearing all the time , and nineteen eighty two will be no more than a particularly rich year for them . |
| 9 | I mean , I think that when people are purchasing all the time the , particularly the order book , is not sensible , but the ad-hoc stuff is hiding the invoices . |
| 10 | But normally you find that erm both Stan and I would consider the large goods vehicles drivers as being the professionals , because you are driving all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ We are developing all the time . |
| 12 | Yet decisions about the significance , for entry into higher education , of school-level achievement in public examinations are made all the time — and it is odd that they seem to be made without reference to CNAA , BTEC or the NCVQ . |
| 13 | I mean he 's got plenty of every single bit of papers that they 're given all the time . |
| 14 | You 'll find you soon get through the day that way , and you 're occupied all the time which is the important thing . ’ |
| 15 | Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that . |
| 16 | Of course you 're reassuring all the time as you do this |
| 17 | Aye , sore fingers , hard , you get hard where you 're cutting all the time in the shape , but apart from that , maybe scissors fall that on your foot and |
| 18 | We 're advancing all the time and I think there may came a time we wo n't use animals at all for medical research , but at , up till now we needed to use animals for medical research . |
| 19 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 20 | And you 're learning all the time , Pip ! |
| 21 | Yeah cos they have , they have a tendency to do that sort of thing you see they 're changing all the time |
| 22 | It 's moving constantly and we 're increasing all the time . |
| 23 | And they 're stalling all the time . |
| 24 | Me , I think they 're lost half the time . ’ |
| 25 | Cos you 're chatting all the time are n't you ? |
| 26 | If you want to stock to 100 or 150ml size then ask your local chemist to order you a box of amber glass medicine bottles — they are used all the time in a dispensing chemist and a manufacturer 's box of 50 is relatively cheap . |
| 27 | Blatant attempts at suggesting status and covering up inadequacies are used all the time in the business world — to show connections and influence , establish a good track record or to create a mystique about something . |
| 28 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 29 | Drugs are used all the time in contemporary society . |
| 30 | Networks of communicating computer systems , within and across frontiers , are growing all the time in the private and public sectors . |