Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all she needs is time to say yes , I 'll be your lover , then she has all the time in the world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 9 | This arrived so soon we could n't believe there had been time to make them and get to the Matterhorn ! |
| 10 | If there had been time , I would have ordered several new suits . |
| 11 | Fortunately , there had been time to buy a half bottle of Bell 's on the way to Paddington . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 14 | Whenever the yield has gone below 4 per cent before , it has been time to get out of the door and sell equities . ’ |
| 15 | And as she worked beside Silas one question hammered to demand an answer — the question of how she could have lost control of her own emotions when she 'd known that all he needed was time to sort out his own feelings for Doreen . |
| 16 | Lothar believed that all he needed was time . |
| 17 | The most precious possession he had was time . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's been time , really . |
| 19 | It 's been time and breath wasted . |