Example sentences of "[verb] [be] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 2 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 3 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 4 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species . |
| 7 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 8 | Whenever the yield has gone below 4 per cent before , it has been time to get out of the door and sell equities . ’ |
| 9 | If all she needs is time to say yes , I 'll be your lover , then she has all the time in the world . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There would have been time . |
| 12 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And that would have been time enough if you had n't shot your mouth off and brought that foul man roaring round here … ’ |
| 15 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 16 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 17 | Yet , in the model described above , there would not have been time since the big bang for light to get from one distant region to another , even though the regions were close together in the early universe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But it was Friday she did it , and Thursday we were expecting her , so there would have been time when she had . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lothar believed that all he needed was time . |
| 22 | One part of a whole range of training needs that were identified was time management . |
| 23 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 24 | This arrived so soon we could n't believe there had been time to make them and get to the Matterhorn ! |
| 25 | If there had been time , I would have ordered several new suits . |
| 26 | The only expenditure had been time . |
| 27 | Fortunately , there had been time to buy a half bottle of Bell 's on the way to Paddington . |
| 28 | Union leaders denied government allegations that the general strike had been time to coincide with Herrera 's rebellion . |
| 29 | The most precious possession he had was time . |
| 30 | Other additions , we did earlier Chair , and that is we have received a mental illness specific grant , erm , on a number of schemes but they have been time limited , and they are due to cease , some of them are due to cease in the coming year . |