Example sentences of "[verb] [be] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever the yield has gone below 4 per cent before , it has been time to get out of the door and sell equities . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately , in the hurly-burly of a busy existence it is likely that the next experience will occur ( rather like waves relentlessly breaking on the shore ) before there has been time to review . |
| 3 | If all she needs is time to say yes , I 'll be your lover , then she has all the time in the world . |
| 4 | It would have been time to win them with clemency later , when they knew his power and will to dominate , and could be stunned into love by the unexpected mercy . |
| 5 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 6 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 7 | And as she worked beside Silas one question hammered to demand an answer — the question of how she could have lost control of her own emotions when she 'd known that all he needed was time to sort out his own feelings for Doreen . |
| 8 | This arrived so soon we could n't believe there had been time to make them and get to the Matterhorn ! |
| 9 | Union leaders denied government allegations that the general strike had been time to coincide with Herrera 's rebellion . |
| 10 | Fortunately , there had been time to buy a half bottle of Bell 's on the way to Paddington . |