Example sentences of "is [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 2 | One of them upstairs is avin' a bad time , and ‘ er only fourteen , too . ’ |
| 3 | He tells her that America is very hot but he is having a nice time . |
| 4 | Judging by the number of messages , everyone on the new list is having a great time already ! |
| 5 | We all recognise that the British farmer is having a rough time . |
| 6 | Even if everyone else is having a good time you tend to end up focusing on the one ASSHOLE ! |
| 7 | So is having a good time . |
| 8 | Mr Antonis is having a hard time getting his message of openness across to all the citizens of Antwerp . |
| 9 | But Isabella is having a hard time . |
| 10 | Got to be a cobbler round who is having a lean time of it . ’ |
| 11 | Too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 . |
| 12 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 13 | ‘ The Ayrshire Amateur Football Association , like all similar organisations , is having a difficult time raising finance , ’ he said . |
| 14 | For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise . |
| 15 | Littleton , Massachusetts-based Alliant Computer Systems Corp is taking a long time to die — too long for Craig Mundie , who resigned as president and chief executive to accept a position with Microsoft Corp as general manager , Advanced Consumer Technologies . |
| 16 | It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries . |
| 17 | This is taking a long time . |
| 18 | This is taking a long time . |
| 19 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 20 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |