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 | There must be enough time and space for each child to wash properly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I might be some time . ’ |
| 6 | He thought it might be some time before he was looking for a love-nest again with her . |
| 7 | If I were to bring in everybody else within the United Kingdom , it might be some time before we foregathered . |
| 8 | ' I might be some time . ’ |
| 9 | Last year it was Billy Casper , but who it might be this time is anybody 's guess . |
| 10 | This has still been an experience erm there might be another time in the future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'll be some time several hours . |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll be some time before she 's traced and identified anyway . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Would it be too much trouble , ’ she enquired sarcastically , ‘ to tell me exactly where we 'll be this time tomorrow ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Could be some time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That could be some time coming . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Foreign Office is trying to play down the row but officials concede it could be some time before both sides talk again . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ It could be any time . |
| 26 | So any time a supervisor appears , which could be any time , you might get a token , okay ? |
| 27 | Could be any time now , we 're just waiting tha Mr explained to him this morning , you know , why it , it ta takes so long |
| 28 | But it does n't pay to be too jumpy , and run away from every approaching shape , or there 'd be little time left for anything else . |
| 29 | Antoine said faintly , ‘ I thought there 'd be more time . |
| 30 | Some thought has to be given to what is possible and it may be that time out can not be used . |