Example sentences of "[prep] time [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |
| 2 | And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted . |
| 3 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 4 | A good length of time to be in this position is about twenty minutes . |
| 5 | It gives you plenty of time to be certain about whether the food suits you or not without confusing the issue . |
| 6 | If one takes degrees of latitude on the surface of time to be the analogue of time , one could say that the surface of the earth begins at the North Pole . |
| 7 | We found the issue of time to be revealing and important . |
| 8 | Time ‘ … ’ permits date to be specified in detail or other features of time to be reflected . |
| 9 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |
| 10 | The staff were amiable , but there again they had plenty of time to be . |
| 11 | The amount of time to be spent on learning about tone languages should depend to some extent on your background . |
| 12 | OLDHAM 'S Ian Olney faces a race against time to be fit for tonight 's Premier League match against Norwich at Boundary park . |
| 13 | Hirst faces a race against time to be fit for England 's friendly in Spain next month after still feeling his way back from an Achilles tendon injury . |
| 14 | CROCKED Chris Waddle faces a race against time to be fit for Sheffield Wednesday 's return to Europe . |
| 15 | But no , a quick consultation of the calendar , given to you so happily by the feed rep last Christmas ( at the same time he gave you a bill ) , shows lighting up time to be 18.52 . |
| 16 | James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list . |
| 17 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 18 | David Young , the Lions prop , has recovered from his hamstring strain in time to be included in the Cardiff side to tackle the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 19 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |
| 20 | The buildings were damaged by the fall of the campanile but rebuilt , just in time to be almost completely razed by fire . |
| 21 | The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized . |
| 22 | Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed . |
| 23 | Then a little further out blazes a great American packet ( the Roraima ) , which arrived on the scene just in time to be overwhelmed by the catastrophe . |
| 24 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 25 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 26 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 27 | They could not have learned the trade in time to be of any practical use to the employers in keeping orders going . |
| 28 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 29 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 30 | They spent three intense weeks correcting and rechecking the entire book , and it was ready in time to be in the bookstores by the April publication date . |