Example sentences of "have [been] time " in BNC.
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1 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
2 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
3 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
4 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
5 | Unfortunately , in the hurly-burly of a busy existence it is likely that the next experience will occur ( rather like waves relentlessly breaking on the shore ) before there has been time to review . |
6 | Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species . |
7 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
8 | Whenever the yield has gone below 4 per cent before , it has been time to get out of the door and sell equities . ’ |
9 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
10 | There would have been time . |
11 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
12 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
13 | And that would have been time enough if you had n't shot your mouth off and brought that foul man roaring round here … ’ |
14 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
15 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
16 | Yet , in the model described above , there would not have been time since the big bang for light to get from one distant region to another , even though the regions were close together in the early universe . |
17 | It would have been time to win them with clemency later , when they knew his power and will to dominate , and could be stunned into love by the unexpected mercy . |
18 | But it was Friday she did it , and Thursday we were expecting her , so there would have been time when she had . |
19 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
20 | This arrived so soon we could n't believe there had been time to make them and get to the Matterhorn ! |
21 | If there had been time , I would have ordered several new suits . |
22 | The only expenditure had been time . |
23 | Fortunately , there had been time to buy a half bottle of Bell 's on the way to Paddington . |
24 | Union leaders denied government allegations that the general strike had been time to coincide with Herrera 's rebellion . |
25 | Other additions , we did earlier Chair , and that is we have received a mental illness specific grant , erm , on a number of schemes but they have been time limited , and they are due to cease , some of them are due to cease in the coming year . |
26 | ‘ It 's been time , really . |
27 | It 's been time and breath wasted . |