Example sentences of "time to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Space precludes a full account of the APT saga , but briefly stated the purpose of the tilting train is to run through speed-restricted curves in complete safety and without loss of passenger comfort at much higher speeds than can be achieved with conventional rolling stock , enabling journey times to be reduced without recourse to realigning and upgrading existing tracks at prohibitive cost . |
| 2 | Britain seemed at times to be close to open class war ; Mrs Thatcher denounced ‘ the enemy within ’ . |
| 3 | The Waste Land seems at times to be attempting to piece together some new religion out of fragments of the old . |
| 4 | If standards are set in concrete , there is no way of teaching children that there are times to be flexible , when special circumstances demand it . |
| 5 | He seems at times to be reassuring himself of his grip upon a world of his own devising . |
| 6 | 4.3.1 The Non-academic Parties ( other than the Lead Organization ) will provide to the Lead Organization at times to be agreed , but not more frequently than at 3 monthly intervals , a statement of net eligible costs as defined in the Grant Offer Letter . |
| 7 | The initial shell of the model was erected in his Delhi office at Apple Tree Yard in London , and Royal Academicians involved in the painting of the various walls and ceilings crossed Piccadilly many times to be presented to Queen Mary or to exchange views and opinions with each other . |
| 8 | ‘ There are several reasons why I feel that the conversion must be devalued , but the most important is that , unless the conversion is devalued , a converted try would total seven points which would require the opposing side to score three times to be able to take the lead . |
| 9 | Both stand outside religion , as formally understood ; but sympathetically , as if longing at times to be inside , and sadly conscious of its insuperable intellectual difficulties . |
| 10 | So many critics wanted Modern Times to be a satire on capitalism whereas Chaplin was merely using factory production and the depression as a back-cloth for a series of impish gags . |
| 11 | Gilligan seems at times to be suggesting that women are naturally , rather than socially , inclined towards giving relationship-oriented moral judgements . |
| 12 | They were now highlighted with Winsor & Newton 's acrylic gold , put on three times to be sure of a strongly reflective finish . |
| 13 | The glow is weak , and needs to be amplified 30,000 times to be visible . |
| 14 | He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric , but these were too difficult for the middle-class man of Victorian times to be bothered with . |
| 15 | The Deaf and Dumb Times to be the exponent of the cause of the Association . |
| 16 | It was not a habit of the Holy Spirit in biblical times to be identified with the views of the majority ! |
| 17 | Section 222 provides that accounting records are at all times to be open for inspection by officers of the company . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I 've heard Mark say it before , Father , ’ she replied Eleven times to be exact , she added savagely , under her breath . |
| 19 | Touring caravans are at all times to be treated as trailers for the purposes of the application of the Agreement . |
| 20 | Rory made left and right turns in quick succession , seemed to go back on himself , seemed at times to be driving blind . |
| 21 | Mr Drury said he had written to parents several times to be more considerate and not park directly outside the school . |
| 22 | It was scored by Ally McCoist after he reacted quickly to a cross from Nevin that evaded Malta 's blanket defence and was the first of modern times to be recorded by Scotland at Ibrox . |
| 23 | In 1989 alone he was hauled before the Scottish Football Association three times to be punished for misconduct . |
| 24 | In most happy marriages , husband and wife continue to make time to be with each other , and to understand each other . |
| 25 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |
| 26 | And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted . |
| 27 | Pasta contains complex carbohydrates so takes time to be digested . |
| 28 | It 's a critical time to be abandoning the plot . |
| 29 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 30 | James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list . |