Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 6 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 7 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 8 | It had to be learnt time and again by his descendants throughout the succeeding twenty centuries . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |