Example sentences of "time [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most happy marriages , husband and wife continue to make time to be with each other , and to understand each other . |
| 2 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |
| 3 | And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted . |
| 4 | Pasta contains complex carbohydrates so takes time to be digested . |
| 5 | It 's a critical time to be abandoning the plot . |
| 6 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 7 | James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list . |
| 8 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 9 | It would be worse if the army — ’ But it was no time to be arguing . |
| 10 | The whole unit had to be dismantled to allow a new base to be fitted — a costly and time-consuming disaster , which taught me that 11pm on Saturday , at the end of a tiring day , is not the time to be doing d-i-y ! |
| 11 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 12 | David Young , the Lions prop , has recovered from his hamstring strain in time to be included in the Cardiff side to tackle the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 13 | The rumours which upset markets yesterday of a renewed difference of opinion between the Downing Street neighbours appear this time to be without substance . |
| 14 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 15 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 16 | A particularly good time to be out-of-doors in natural lighting in the first two to three days after the flight is that corresponding to the evening and first part of the night on ‘ old time ’ , 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock ; this should help to delay your body clock . |
| 17 | Natural water from two 300ft boreholes beneath Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , is for the first time to be bottled , and sold to France . |
| 18 | Queen Anne 's reign was a sophisticated time to be building . |
| 19 | It was n't the time to be playing silly games . |
| 20 | When these dated issues were analysed a fairly steady debasement trend was discovered and this allowed the approximate fineness of the coinage at any particular time to be charted . |
| 21 | The solution — Polaris — took time to be developed . |
| 22 | They all more or less agreed above undercurrents of mutual ill-will that it was time to be hit by the brutish cold again . |
| 23 | The horse is kept locked up in a stable until it is time to be exhibited for the potential buyer or judge — or mare owner if the horse is a stallion standing at stud . |
| 24 | Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers . |
| 25 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |
| 26 | For this reason the constables of many royal castles were appointed at the same time to be wardens of neighbouring forests : the constable of Rockingham castle was usually warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges ; the constable of Porchester kept Bere Porchester Forest ; the constable of Devizes kept Chippenham and Melksham Forests ; the constable of St Briavels the Forest of Dean ; the constable of Castleton the Forest of the Peak ; and the constable of Windsor castle was also warden of Windsor Forest . |
| 27 | The machinery of the ancient Forest courts was found at this time to be cumbrous and ineffective . |
| 28 | The praise was well-deserved , but this was no time to be resting on laurels . |
| 29 | He had a habit of singing joylessly about the house , and my colleague was one day amazed to hear what she thought was ‘ Drink to me Only ’ ; she had , however , little time to be surprised at this sensuality , for more careful listening revealed that the words were all about hell-fire and damnation . |
| 30 | I recently purchased what I believed , at the time to be a Perkins 4203 diesel engine together with the appropriate conversion kit . |