Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Some elements may be traced to medieval times or even earlier , but in the main local government is a product of nineteenth-century urbanisation .
2 Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times .
3 The study of such curves , originating perhaps in the Ancient Greek spiral , can be traced in modern times from the work of Giuseppe Peano in 1890 and Helge von Koch in 1904 to Mandelbrot 's book , Fractals : Form , Chance and Dimension ( 1977 ) .
4 Individual students can work at their own paces and the exercises can be completed at convenient times within the student 's schedule of studies .
5 Working conditions of the taxi driver are extremely poor and could be likened to Victorian times , hours worked are ra rarely less than sixty per week , there is no holiday pay , no pension rights , no sick pay , and no say in which way the trade is administered by local authorities .
6 I have been sufficiently foolhardy to raise the issue from time to time with small groups of individuals who put their point of view to me when it is easy to be civilised and who propose arrangements whereby Sunday trading could be limited to certain times , to shops of a particular size , to the selling of particular goods or to certain types of shop .
7 Some felt a shudder at the thought of tackling the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam , and counselled that the subject matter should be confined to modern times .
8 Access to the system is nearly always indirect and therefore slow , and likely to be confined to certain times because of a need to load the payroll or manpower tapes within the computer centre .
9 Although it was not clear when the equipment would arrive at North Tees , managers hoped it would be installed in good time for Christmas .
10 Isolation , rejection , dishonour and disrespect might be expected at different times .
11 To allow staff appointments to be made in good time for work to be undertaken for Council Tax it is necessary to go to the Finance Committee on 16 September 1992 with a staff structure , some of which is still subject to review , for example the Control Sections .
12 Early inquiry should obviously be made where an application , eg under s 29(3) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , is required to be made within strict time limits .
13 It can be seen at certain times .
14 He also had another er , what we call a journey waybill and that , he used to record on there at each termini he used to record the time and the ticket numbers that he 'd got in his rack at that particular time , so it could be seen between certain times that a ticket perhaps was sold between Witton and Rushmere Heath .
15 ‘ Put an arrow into the ground in front of him when I give the sign — far enough ahead to be seen in good time . ’
16 For counsellors to know the limits of their competence is clearly important , and calling in specialist help is always something that should be done in good time .
17 The intercutting of parallel actions — which can be shot at different times and in different places — can all be done at the editing stage , and you are free to try your hand at risky shots safe in the knowledge that any failures can be edited out later .
18 MPower 's SharedWhiteBoard lets shared images be annotated in real time .
19 MPower 's SharedWhiteBoard enables shared images to be annotated in real time , Audio Editor enables users to create , playback and mail audio files and annotate text files with audio playback ; DeskScan/UX is for scanning , viewing , manipulating for scale , brightness and contrast , storing and printing high-resolution colour and monochrome images ; Multimedia Mailer electronically mails audio , image and video frames and FAX-UX sends and receives facsimile messages ; ImageView views graphics images , including facsimile , saves video frames and full-colour PostScript files while PostScript Viewer views PostScript-based objects .
20 The castle is in the care of the Department of the Environment and can be visited at normal times .
21 The lighthouse can be visited at certain times , at the keeper 's convenience .
22 ‘ You 'll be told in good time , ’ he said and would not listen when Goll the Gorm said , crossly , as they trooped out , that it was always the same ; they were not told what was going on and it was a disgrace and a scandal and there 'd be a revolution at Tara before much longer , if there would n't be an outright war .
23 There is disagreement , however , whether or not they can be interpreted as lateral time equivalents of one another .
24 If there is a comparison to be drawn in recent times , and lessons are be learned , it 's from the Walker Cup match last month in the States .
25 Since the analysis of this data must be performed in real time , traders use computers .
26 The same applies to line ( 3 ) assuming an adjacency matrix representation of G so that the test ( u , v ) is an edge of G may be performed in constant time .
27 Appliances like cookers and water heaters tended to be used at off-peak times , but the use of electric fires was concentrated on the colder times in winter which coincided with system peak demand .
28 This will be used at random times and locations to measure vehicle speeds , naturally targeting faster moving traffic .
29 The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year .
30 Its accommodation was considerably greater than would ever be needed in normal times , but its nationalistic opulence was intended to come into its own every four years , at the inauguration of successive presidents .
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