Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 3 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 4 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 5 | You 're in bare time for your wedding . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're in good time , ’ the witch-like Miss Martindale admitted in grudging tones , as she opened the door . |
| 7 | If you get caught with more than seven tablets you 're in big time trouble . ’ |
| 8 | They are into philosophical time , producing work once a year or less . |
| 9 | The Western movie had been to America , the new promised land , what the Old Testament and its heroes — Abraham , Moses , Samson , Saul and David — had been in Biblical times . |
| 10 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 11 | I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions . |
| 12 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 13 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 14 | Bradshaw and Miller 's work has shown that a substantial proportion of single mothers have never been in full time employment . |
| 15 | The research aims to provide information about the expanding area of Saturday job working by young people , 16-18 years , who are in full- time education . |
| 16 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 17 | Those who are in full time work are not entitled to income support but all households are eligible for additional payments related to children and housing costs . |
| 18 | Across the borough , about 27,000 people are in full time employment and 10,200 in part-time employment — about 37,200 people in all . |
| 19 | 'T IS true , our Sex has been from early Time |
| 20 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 21 | ‘ It 'll be like old times again with you watching my back , ’ Rust replied with a grin . |
| 22 | ‘ It 'll be like old times . ’ |
| 23 | I shall be running the saloon — it 'll be like old times , and we 've the new barmaid in the public . |
| 24 | ‘ It 'll be like old times , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 25 | Put I 'm in full time education tick it pay for it she said er what you on then ? |
| 26 | To be in good time for Christmas , why not clip and post the coupon now . |
| 27 | With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels . |
| 28 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 29 | You must be able to swim 500 yards and should not be in full time education at the time of the expedition . |
| 30 | I mentioned earlier that we closed the erm , Royal Minton factory and four other factories are on short time , but we continued to invest in operation efficiency to improve our competitive position and er , now over to er , to James . |