Example sentences of "would be [det] time " in BNC.

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1 His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis .
2 The company said that complex negotiations were proceeding quickly but it would be some time before there was progress to report .
3 When he left Williams for Ferrari , I remember Frank Williams reminiscing at his annual press luncheon that he had fond memories of Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg , but that it would be some time before he had similar memories of Nigel .
4 Though it would be some time before he was released from hospital , he was already better and we were all able to relax with relief .
5 He had a feeling that precious moment would be some time away .
6 Sarah soon began to recover , although it was clear that it would be some time before she was completely well again .
7 If they were uninhabited , they would be settled of course , but it would be some time before the Kha-Khan 's tenth was repaid .
8 But the lack of a well-established party system in the republics , and the general economic and social crisis , suggested that it would be some time before institutionalized pressure-group systems were operating , if at all .
9 ‘ I thought it would be some time tonight . ’
10 Paige found her appetite quickly satisfied , and knew that it would be some time before they would be eating normally again .
11 When Grace Farrier rose from the table , the men rose with her , and when , a few minutes later , she entered the drawing room she sat down with a sigh , for she was wondering how long Aunt Nessy 's stay would be this time .
12 The personnel manager felt that if she was working in a establishment with a lower turn-over she would be more democratic because there would be more time .
13 But it was only when I was in bed that night and unable to sleep that I realised the meaning of my horrified reaction : there would be another time , after I was dead , when I would not exist , when my consciousness would be extinguished .
14 There would be another time .
15 That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days .
16 In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe .
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