Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since money is less likely to be withdrawn quickly from time accounts , banks may feel the need to hold less liquidity , and therefore may decide to increase credit , thus expanding the money supply . |
| 2 | The arrangements are working well and I have every confidence that the job will be completed satisfactorily on time . |
| 3 | Outstanding incompatibilities not resolved by the ABI — and there is little doubt that different look and feels will still prevail — are to be addressed by a streamlined porting environment that can be whittled down over time as more features are incorporated into the ABI . |
| 4 | Odd-length periods have the merit of being centred on the middle observation of the period ; even-length periods provide a smoothed value that must be placed midway in time between the middle two observations of the period . |
| 5 | Nigel got most of the estate , but would be more than a little embarrassed by estate duty ; and provision for Jacqui and her baby would be sorted out in time . |
| 6 | Any ACT that can not be used , carried back or surrendered , may be carried forward without time limit for use against tax liabilities ( again subject to the same basic rate restriction ) . |
| 7 | Rangers ' pitch will now be lifted at the earliest opportunity and a new one laid in its place , so long as the work can be carried out in time for the new season . |
| 8 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 9 | Investors in soon-to-mature MTNs could be first in line for payment if the deal with GE Capital can be pushed through in time . |
| 10 | These sites were special and , despite the noise of an adjacent bus station and wailing loudspeaker from a nearby Moslem minaret , it was easy to be whisked back in time and imagine the scene many years ago . |
| 11 | Here you will be transported backwards in time as you meander through the Victorian street , with its working craftsmen , and into the period rooms showing life as it was in Victorian times . |
| 12 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 13 | It supports the principle of increasing energy prices so that consumers pay the full environmental cost of the resources they use , although it acknowledges that increases would have to be phased in over time , preferably in line with international agreements . |
| 14 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 15 | A week in a one-star hotel in Madrid can be set up by Time Off ( 01-235 8070 ) for £227pp , with an optional day tour to Toledo for £26 or to Avila and Segovia for £33 . |
| 16 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 17 | Opposition Members have said that the council tax is too complex and difficult to be rushed through in time for 1 April 1993 . |
| 18 | It was essential that the walls could be manned fast in time of emergency . |
| 19 | We hope the branches and members w w will believe those reports because they will be the truth , and not some of the more highly coloured statements which I 'm sure will be put around from time to time . |
| 20 | Designer Cuffey , I feel , has tilted several greens too much , but this can be put right in time . |
| 21 | The use of a carefully structured finite-state grammar allows all the utterances to be specified ahead of time . |
| 22 | Because you will be kept strictly to time . |
| 23 | Corrected stock will be sent out in time for a new publication date . |
| 24 | The Brady Plan ( devised by Nicholas Brady the US Treasury Secretary ) suggests that owed money could be reduced , and the remainder made into a more realistic secure loan that would be paid back in time . |
| 25 | Only very short-term speculative balances will be held in sight deposits : they will be held mainly in time deposits which earn some interest , but which are still totally risk free . |
| 26 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |