Example sentences of "be in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're in bare time for your wedding . ’ |
| 2 | If you 're in two time or four time which you are . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're in good time , ’ the witch-like Miss Martindale admitted in grudging tones , as she opened the door . |
| 4 | If you get caught with more than seven tablets you 're in big time trouble . ’ |
| 5 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 12 | Bradshaw and Miller 's work has shown that a substantial proportion of single mothers have never been in full time employment . |
| 13 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now that the banks are in thinner times , might rich companies come to their rescue instead ? |
| 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 | Put I 'm in full time education tick it pay for it she said er what you on then ? |
| 20 | To be in good time for Christmas , why not clip and post the coupon now . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 24 | You must be able to swim 500 yards and should not be in full time education at the time of the expedition . |
| 25 | One dimension might be in this time , as we have seen , the mother might reach a stage where , she , it 's in her productive self interest to start another offspring , and she may want to wean the existing one , so she can do that . |
| 26 | After Yusopov 's reply — which he found despite being in terrible time pressure — the Russian was always likely to escape with a draw . |
| 27 | I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district . |
| 28 | My/our home is not left regularly unattended due to all adults being in full time work or education |
| 29 | Columns were in early times taken from ruined Roman buildings . |
| 30 | In the Forest of Dean alone the four verderers are still elected as they were in medieval times — by the freeholders of the county called together in County Court by the sheriff . |