Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only try to provide an efficient service if we are clear what it is you need and are given sufficient time to do something about it . |
| 2 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 3 | Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted . |
| 4 | So far , more than half of those taken on trial have been given full time jobs like Chris . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | If you 're got extra time it puts you right out . |
| 7 | ‘ Well Lynne , today we 're giving equal time to the ladies and throwing the spotlight on one of America 's Most Wanted Femme Criminals , Ms Jessamyn Amanda Bonney , sometimes known under the aliases of Jazzbeaux or Minnie Molotov . |
| 8 | I mean , if they 're working full time |
| 9 | As was made clear in the debate today , there is agreement — on both sides , I think — on the latter parts of the Bill dealing with higher education , although here , too , we are providing reasonable time for consideration in Committee . |
| 10 | Preliminary work began last September following the appointment of two countryside officers who are employed full time on the project . |
| 11 | If both consultants and house officers are to give dedicated time to education , then less clinical work will be achieved and waiting lists will grow longer . |
| 12 | Males that are not successful at this manoeuvre are losing reproductive time ; they are older and bigger . |
| 13 | The Institute will be devoting considerable time and effort , in the coming months , to taking a leading role in the consultation process and preparing a coherent and comprehensive response to the important issues the APB has raised . |
| 14 | It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before a LIFESPAN shut down so that any outstanding transactions may be given sufficient time to complete . |
| 15 | Shareholders must be given sufficient time to consider the advice before any general meeting held to sanction the offer . |
| 16 | You may have recollections of taking a long time to achieve competence in one particular skill , and wonder whether on returning you will be given adequate time to practise and revise . |
| 17 | In almost all investigations of any size , one investigator can be occupied full time taking statements during the first few days after the accident . |
| 18 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 19 | And this distinction between an hour as sixty minutes and an hour as a section of complex human experience , is I suppose the distinction one would make between clock time and what might be called existential time , time as it 's humanly experienced . |
| 20 | I 'm called full time Youth Evangelist and work for the Pembury Free Church . |
| 21 | Managers could perhaps arrange for practitioners to be allocated specific time in which to develop a clinical teaching role , enabling them to improve their skills and abilities and to return to the ward or practice area with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 22 | Well I 'm working full time too |
| 23 | As things have changed round here , things are changing present time er which has so much , however , and there are other areas er just report will be reconsidered er and the right sort of er er area of cover er that we would wish to see and just cutting services , we 're talking about improving resources from an area which is clear to areas where there is no further issue , or etc. , etc. , there is not adequate cover . |
| 24 | Their employment was recorded as full time ( a housewife was considered as being employed full time ) , part time , retired , or unemployed . |
| 25 | A poll of 492 firms showed that 70% find audit work ‘ uneconomic ’ as a result of the cost of audit regulation , combined with client pressure on fees : 76.8% said that more partners and staff were spending non-chargeable time on audit regulation matters , while only 31.7% were able to pass these increased costs on to clients . |
| 26 | A number of arts professional development teachers reported that their involvement in schools was often initiated by primary headteachers feeling that staff were giving inadequate time to an area of the curriculum vital to the personal development of the pupils . |
| 27 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 28 | Ten were working full time when interviewed , only two being unemployed ( one by choice since surgery ; the second for medical reasons ) . |
| 29 | By the middle years of the nineteenth century a high proportion of the male workforce were without land and were working full time at the craft ; women and girls also found employment in large numbers . |
| 30 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |