Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 2 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 3 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 4 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |
| 5 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |
| 6 | the county keeper was shaken a few times but not often stirred |
| 7 | Once a Bill is read a first time , it can be printed and is usually available the next day . |
| 8 | Mr. Brian Wilson ( Cunninghame , North ) : I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 9 | I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time |
| 10 | Question put , That the clause be read a Second time : |
| 11 | I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 12 | The Question is , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 13 | In opposing a Bill , however , the opposition ( occasionally it may be a dissident member of the government party ) will move an amendment not to the text of the Bill , but to the motion that the Bill be read a second time ( the motion before the House ) . |
| 14 | The usual one is an amendment to the effect ‘ that the Bill be read a second time upon this day six months ’ hence' when , historically , the session would have ended and the Bill thus have lapsed . |
| 15 | A Member simply gives notice and eventually moves that the Bill be read a first time . |
| 16 | Read the first time on 12 February 1844 , his creditors and debtors bill was read a second time on 30 April . |
| 17 | Where the principle object of a Bill was money , it was formerly the practice for it to be made the subject of a debate in the Commons upon a resolution before the Bill was read a first time . |
| 18 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 19 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |
| 20 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 21 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 22 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |