Example sentences of "be [vb pp] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily : |
| 4 | ‘ Lee Trevino has been blamed times without number for talking players off their game . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | All those things had been said time and again erm by various thinkers in the eighteenth century and before and after . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is healing and renewing and should be given time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 17 | Employees may be given time off for house hunting or may be expected to do this at weekends . |
| 18 | These priorities , for example , might be expressed through a request to teach a different age group or to be given time to take a specific course . |
| 19 | The subject of the appraisal should be given time to prepare and the opportunity to corroborate the report . |
| 20 | All teachers should be given time to get to know the machines they are expected to use as well as the materials they will use with them . |
| 21 | ‘ Because it should never have happened the way it did , but if I was angry it was with myself , not you , because you needed to be courted , to be given time , and I gave you none . |
| 22 | Those who ca n't see a role for the trade unions and the Labour Party need to be given time to see the error of their ways . |
| 23 | As members have to be given time to incorporate measures into national law , it follows that the Council of Ministers will have to complete most of its work by 1990 . |
| 24 | The establishment of TECs was debated and fought in the House , but it is now evident that the TECs are doing good work and that the system needs to be given time to settle down . |
| 25 | Until his removal Aringo had spearheaded a campaign to reform the party , calling for fresh grassroots elections , the adoption of secret balloting and for opposition parties to be given time to organize properly . |
| 26 | any employee attending court as a witness on behalf of the employee involved will be granted time off work with pay for this purpose . |
| 27 | The fragrance can be revitalised time after time with oils supplied ( £2.99 . ) |
| 28 | Intermediate sprints help towards this prize and the peloton will be split time and again . |
| 29 | But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today . |
| 30 | ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’ |