Example sentences of "[be] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are wasting time ! |
| 2 | If London had been given time to study these , it would have seen that Smurfit is looking well placed in a world market notoriously prone to cyclical demand . |
| 3 | He has been given time to develop and in a recent interview on TV the trainer was even talking in terms of a possible Grand National victory . |
| 4 | CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily : |
| 5 | I 've been filling time wherever I am . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there is a general warm acceptance of the monarchy , which has been revealed time and time again by public opinion polls ( e.g. National Opinion Poll , 1986 ; Gallup , 1976 ; see surveys of polls in Harris , 1966 ; Norton , 1984 ; Ziegler , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | All those things had been said time and again erm by various thinkers in the eighteenth century and before and after . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're wasting time . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , we 're wasting time sitting here , ’ he said and stood up . |
| 10 | But we 're wasting time . |
| 11 | Alright , so , come and see me as soon as the problems start to emerge , and I can probably tell you that you 're , you 're wasting time and energy worrying about it , so |
| 12 | Certainly , I mean , something you should be aware of , however , if you 're using colour coding , if you 're using symbols and abbreviations , is the minute that you need a key to understand your own abbreviations and your , or what the colours mean , you 're wasting time . |
| 13 | Well come on , we 're wasting time if you want your shoes . |
| 14 | And do n't forget we 're told time and time again , almost ad nauseam , that this is to remain a public service within the National Health Service . |
| 15 | You 're stealing time . |
| 16 | You 're losing time . |
| 17 | He explained : ‘ It 's a fairly lengthy report and we 're taking time to digest its contents . ’ |
| 18 | It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus . |
| 19 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 20 | Been doing time . |
| 21 | Other advantages of living alone are having time and space for myself to read , write , draw , think , learn , do what I feel is right for myself . |
| 22 | Well in the main lobbyist has been Ron who 's the who 's our elected campaigns officers and he 's quite literally been spending time treading the the hallowed halls of Westminster |
| 23 | Yes , we do get Rugby Special on a Sunday , at a time when most of the rugby fraternity are spending time recovering from the previous day 's actions , catching up with family life and preparing the next week 's work . |
| 24 | As travel becomes easier , more and more young people are spending time visiting relatives in both countries and continuing to sustain and develop their interest both languages and cultures . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 26 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 27 | The conference here in June agreed that voluntary repatriation should be given time to work and that only then would ‘ alternative measures ’ — including compulsory repatriation — be considered . |
| 28 | The client who presents a single problem will be allowed time to explore several ; the client who appears with a threatened electricity disconnection will be given time to expose other debts ; CAB workers are more aware of the place of industrial tribunals , of medical appeals and of welfare rights case law . |
| 29 | This is healing and renewing and should be given time . |
| 30 | If , for example , a haulage company wished to acquire a Volvo heavy goods vehicle as an addition to its existing mixed Meet of lorries , it would be given time — say , three years — to repay the sum borrowed , paying interest at a commercial rate each month for 36 months . |