Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course manager Ian Duff has put the starting time back from 2.30pm in the hope of boosting the attendance and he pointed out : ‘ With the televised football not starting until after 7.00pm there should be enough time for people to leave their offices , go racing and come home to watch the soccer . ’ |
| 2 | Surely , if scientists , whose work is in the public domain and open to critical scrutiny , are prone to distortion , the police must be many times more vulnerable , seeing that police investigations are far less structured and not at all open to outside scrutiny . |
| 3 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |
| 4 | Polgar 's approach to teaching is , he says , that ‘ the pleasure of the accomplishment must be several times as much as the experience of failure . ’ |
| 5 | There must be enough time and space for each child to wash properly . |
| 6 | Key to this stage of planning is the acceptance ( once again ) that there must be some time limits given to each ‘ activity ’ , or the whole project will become lopsided and wo n't be completed in time . |
| 7 | It does n't matter how small your primordial lung is , there must be some time out of water that you can just endure with the lung , which is a little bit longer than you could have endured without the lung . |
| 8 | I might be some time . ’ |
| 9 | He thought it might be some time before he was looking for a love-nest again with her . |
| 10 | If I were to bring in everybody else within the United Kingdom , it might be some time before we foregathered . |
| 11 | ' I might be some time . ’ |
| 12 | Last year it was Billy Casper , but who it might be this time is anybody 's guess . |
| 13 | This has still been an experience erm there might be another time in the future . |
| 14 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 15 | I 'll be some time several hours . |
| 16 | ‘ It 'll be some time before she 's traced and identified anyway . |
| 17 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |
| 18 | ‘ Would it be too much trouble , ’ she enquired sarcastically , ‘ to tell me exactly where we 'll be this time tomorrow ? ’ |
| 19 | The mechanical ‘ skin ’ on this well had increased to greater than 100 after its workover and completion , which indicated that although the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day it could be many times more productive . |
| 20 | We 're getting , if we could be this time next week , given feedback and come back with some response and maybe John , you can take whatever comes out of that on board in your . |
| 21 | Could be some time . |
| 22 | As I 'm sure you 'll understand , when I first came to see this awful situation I was consumed with a feeling of frustration — knowing , as I did then , that it could be some time before we 'd be in a position to intervene . |
| 23 | The way the Minogue sisters are likely to carry on working , it could be some time before they get the chance of another shopping trip . |
| 24 | That could be some time coming . |
| 25 | However , in a game which is notoriously tardy at accepting scientific method and new technology , the widespread application of findings by the Alsager team could be some time in coming . |
| 26 | Following his interview , I wrote an urgent letter about his circumstances to the local housing department , although I recognised that it could be some time before he received any offers of accommodation . |
| 27 | The Foreign Office is trying to play down the row but officials concede it could be some time before both sides talk again . |
| 28 | The gun was a genuine late-Victorian revolver ( another anachronism in a film so full of them that its period could be any time between 1700 and 1900 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It could be any time . |
| 30 | So any time a supervisor appears , which could be any time , you might get a token , okay ? |