Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 2 | Mr Bland said that if LWT manages to retain its franchise , the new shares will be worth three times as much as they are now . |
| 3 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 4 | A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently . |
| 5 | You 're growing up , yes , but you 're not grown-up and you wo n't be for some time , and in the meantime you 're still my girl . |
| 6 | Could you please make these adjustments for the next matrix list which I realise will not be for some time and , in fact , by that time Karen will be off on maternity leave but I leave it to you whether you want to slot in Joan and Jane for that period . |
| 7 | Finally , the market square in Aylesbury is still closed for major work and obviously will be for some time , and you need to still avoid that area . |
| 8 | ‘ It 'll be like old times again with you watching my back , ’ Rust replied with a grin . |
| 9 | ‘ It 'll be like old times . ’ |
| 10 | I shall be running the saloon — it 'll be like old times , and we 've the new barmaid in the public . |
| 11 | ‘ It 'll be like old times , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 12 | To be in good time for Christmas , why not clip and post the coupon now . |
| 13 | With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels . |
| 14 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 15 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 16 | You must be able to swim 500 yards and should not be in full time education at the time of the expedition . |
| 17 | One dimension might be in this time , as we have seen , the mother might reach a stage where , she , it 's in her productive self interest to start another offspring , and she may want to wean the existing one , so she can do that . |
| 18 | Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day . |
| 19 | But then you see the town was on er on er on D C. And they 'd be at that time they they were beginning to change over to A C , the whole country 's A C now . |
| 20 | ( i ) The public may leave at the end of the performance or exhibition by all exit doors and such doors must be at that time open . |
| 21 | Irrespective of the means provided to bring automatic roof vents and sprinkler systems into operations , automatic fire detection able to sense the presence of a smouldering fire may be important to reduce damage to some forms of goods if the premises are to be at any time unoccupied . |
| 22 | There 's a Danish proverb , you know , that states that fish and guests smell after three days and er we all know the visits which have begun so successfully from friends and relatives , it need n't be Christmas , it could be at any time of the year , which are often ruined by people lingering on well past their sell-by date . |
| 23 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 24 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 25 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 26 | There are many less ACE machines around than we thought there would be by this time , ’ he added . |