Example sentences of "[be] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 2 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 3 | I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time . |
| 4 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 5 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 6 | We would not be able to tell what the enemy 's intentions are this time , ’ Kopyion replied . |
| 7 | Even if the baby wakes at random times — in order to feed , for example — there are some times of the 24 hours when its environment is less stimulating and responsive than others . |
| 8 | Do you know , there are some times when you feel : I ca n't stand this . |
| 9 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 10 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 11 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 12 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 13 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 14 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 15 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 16 | It 's been some time . ’ |
| 17 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 18 | That must of been some time ago |
| 19 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 20 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 21 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 22 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 23 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
| 24 | There have been many times when I could n't write . |
| 25 | McGahern : ‘ There have been many times when I could n't write ’ |
| 26 | The Basilica Constaninina , now the Cathedral of Rome , S. Giovanni in Laterano , has since been many times altered and added |
| 27 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |
| 28 | England and Wales are many times more populated than Kenya . |
| 29 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 30 | Basaltic rocks melt at about 1,100 degrees C , while granitic rocks melt at only about 650–700 degrees C , so magmas of granitic composition are many times more viscous than basaltic ones . |