Example sentences of "[adj] be time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others understood to be interested are Time Warner , the world 's largest media company , TV-am and Thames , two of the losing ITV franchisees , CLT , owners of Radio Luxembourg , and Five TV — a consortium led by Mr Moses Znaimer , a Canadian television operator . |
| 2 | Could this be time pressure then ? |
| 3 | This is time which is n't like work time . |
| 4 | Straps are the traditional method and give a very secure fit to the boot if used correctly ( Fig 2 ) ; but this is time consuming and cold on the fingers . |
| 5 | whereas before they used to hand paint them all , well we know this is time consuming and expensive whereas you just program it in and |
| 6 | No , it 's very important , important is time . |
| 7 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 8 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 9 | In Henry I 's time its senior officials , the Master Chamberlain and the Treasurer , were still commonly in attendance in the household . |
| 10 | These accounts were entered on the official ‘ Pipe Roll ’ ; and the one survivor of these rolls from Henry I 's time , that for 1129 — 30 , is far and away the earliest royal account to survive in any European archive ; few written accounts were kept in 1130 . |
| 11 | Perhaps as important was time lost through " short-water working " in dry spells . |
| 12 | The same is time for visits to schools and for the school quiz , where Catholic schools are always paired on the same side as Protestant ones in order to facilitate , again momentarily , some intercommunal co-operation . |
| 13 | Associated with the universe was the other form of time called Zurvan daregho-chvadhata , that is time of the long dominion , or finite time . |
| 14 | That 's time enough for the wicked work , if they knew where to find him , and it seems they did . |
| 15 | So that 's time going along along there . |
| 16 | Yeah , that 's time ago , mate , just come |
| 17 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 18 | Both were time served joiners , Brian Linighan insisting that his talented sons learned a trade too . |