Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is disliked because it is physically an exhausting activity ; more than any of the other tasks it consists of actions which have to be repeated time and time again with little variation . |
| 2 | These priorities , for example , might be expressed through a request to teach a different age group or to be given time to take a specific course . |
| 3 | ‘ Because it should never have happened the way it did , but if I was angry it was with myself , not you , because you needed to be courted , to be given time , and I gave you none . |
| 4 | Those who ca n't see a role for the trade unions and the Labour Party need to be given time to see the error of their ways . |
| 5 | As members have to be given time to incorporate measures into national law , it follows that the Council of Ministers will have to complete most of its work by 1990 . |
| 6 | The establishment of TECs was debated and fought in the House , but it is now evident that the TECs are doing good work and that the system needs to be given time to settle down . |
| 7 | Until his removal Aringo had spearheaded a campaign to reform the party , calling for fresh grassroots elections , the adoption of secret balloting and for opposition parties to be given time to organize properly . |
| 8 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 9 | But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today . |
| 10 | I think , we ought to be taking time to try and prepare , well for the next assembly and in doing so to own what goes on there and to say , yes as the previous speaker said we are the World Church in a very real way . |
| 11 | Such commitments , in spite of their essential unfeasibility , were to be restated time and again in future elections . |
| 12 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 14 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 15 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 16 | Since a servant 's whole time belonged to the master or mistress , the housekeeper had a legal right to make this sort of demand , though various writers had asserted the need for servants to be allowed time to read and develop intellectually . |
| 17 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 18 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 19 | It had to be learnt time and again by his descendants throughout the succeeding twenty centuries . |