Example sentences of "be the time [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real barrier has been the time spent apart , he says . |
| 2 | The model for southeast England has been refined and developed and one reason for its modification has been the time allocated to mid-Tertiary earth movements as it was appreciated that these ‘ outer ripples of the Alpine storm ’ may have continued for longer than was at first envisaged . |
| 3 | The two quantities are the time taken for the waves to reach a patch and return to the Earth , which gives the range of the patches , and the Doppler-shift of such waves , which gives the motion of the patches . |
| 4 | An object the size of the Sun would take 29 minutes to collapse to a singularity under its own gravity — at least that would be the time measured by an observer stationed on its surface before he too vanished into zero dimensions . |
| 5 | Another factor may be the time taken in coping with a particular old person which is seen as disproportionate in relation to other work which has to be done . |
| 6 | Persons who are unable to satisfy the conditions for enrolment at the appropriate time , being the time laid down by the Senate under Section 3 , may at the discretion of the Senate be provisionally enrolled for such period not exceeding three months as may be authorised by or on behalf of the Senate . |
| 7 | Its drawback is the time involved , as it requires teachers to take register at each lesson by marking pink sheets that are then read into an optical mark reader . |
| 8 | What has not yet changed is the time invested in looking after manpower utilisation in relation to the time invested in looking after machinery utilisation . |
| 9 | In much of the animal world night is the time set aside for sleep — pure and simple . |
| 10 | Another costly area of training for firms is the time spent ensuring compliance with training standards . |
| 11 | where N is the maximum number of channels seen to be open simultaneously during the recording ( lasting 20–30 s ) , n represents the state of the channels ( 0=closed , 1=one channel open , etc ) , and t n is the time spent in state n . |
| 12 | It is the time taken for this to occur which tells you if the horse is dehydrated . |
| 13 | What neither the historian nor archaeologist can reconstruct is the time taken for the two cultures to mingle , with intermarriage and innovations in the languages . |
| 14 | The second is the time taken from the moment a record is requested by the program to the time when accessing and transfer takes place , known as wait time or queue time . |
| 15 | But the major obstacle to wider use of computers for textual processing is the time taken to input data . |
| 16 | The lead time as shown is the time taken between the order being made and the delivery taking place . |
| 17 | Rise time is the time taken for the motor to first reach the demanded step position , which is attained with maximum velocity . |
| 18 | Finally the settling time is the time taken for oscillation to decay so that the system is within 5% of the target . |
| 19 | The velocity profile during deceleration can be obtained by integrating the above equation : where is the time taken to decelerate to a stepping rate/from an initial stepping rate . |
| 20 | The only criticism is the time taken to put the financial package together before work could begin . |
| 21 | The flow time t , is the time taken for the solution meniscus to pass from x to y in bulb E. |
| 22 | In radioactive decay , half life ( t1/2 ) is the time taken for for [ A ] o to decay to 1/2[A]o . |
| 23 | The main reason for this is that the production cycle , that is the time taken to produce goods for sale , can be relatively long . |
| 24 | The major problem with top-down parsing is the time wasted in expanding rules that can not possibly be satisfied by the input . |
| 25 | I was thinking for instance when you have generation of young men how do you , what 's the time left to something extreme can be done culturally and people can be sort of you know convinced that they 're right and that they go out there and get machine guns can be done culturally , whereas |
| 26 | So it 's this , it 's the time taken to get this erm , er , to get the job 's going to be important . |
| 27 | Well it 's the time taken to gain employment the time taken to gain employment in the urban sector . |
| 28 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 29 | It was the time spent with this woman that became instrumental in deterring Millie from making her escape from this prayer-ridden , ignorant set of women , from which Mother Francis must be excluded . |
| 30 | This was the time known as sull'imbrunire , when the sky was still bright in the west and the clock on the Governor 's Palace was lit up . |