Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] on time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the illustration in table 5.4 three values have been placed on time spent travelling , a frequent element in many CBA analyses . |
| 2 | Virgin 's payments had all been made on time , and as far as he was aware there was no problem at all . |
| 3 | Documentary checks might be supplemented with results of site inspections to discover whether equipment was stored solely on site , whether it had been incorporated into the works , whether stage payments had been made on time and for the agreed amount . |
| 4 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 5 | Mr Ensall admitted there had been delays , but that all mail had been processed on time since March 9 . |
| 6 | Indeed , if all else had failed — if the supplies had seldom been delivered on time , if the contras had declined to fight , if the money had gone astray , if the planes had crashed — the cause was still something that was simply right , whatever sort of mess had resulted . |
| 7 | There are obvious attractions in affording the Registrar an additional weapon in the form of a penalty recoverable by civil suit to which there is no defence once it is shown that accounts have not been delivered on time . |
| 8 | They received no damages for the loss of some exceptionally lucrative government dyeing contracts which they would haze secured if the boiler had been delivered on time . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , however , that contributions to the main United Nations budget have not in the past always been paid on time or in full , even by members of the Security Council . |
| 10 | But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time . |