Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are given a time , but they never do , if you er , there 's no way you 're gon na get them together as a group for that time |
| 2 | When Hughes , who had been cheered every time he warmed up , was brought on with United 2-1 down , Ferguson again incurred the crowd 's wrath by bringing off Sharpe , who like all United 's young players is popular with the supporters . |
| 3 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 4 | Laura had been given no time to mourn the collapse of her brief marriage . |
| 5 | Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities . |
| 6 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 7 | Well they 're given a time to turn up in a group are n't they ? |
| 8 | you 're doing a time consuming operation . |
| 9 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 10 | In fact in the eighteen nineties , I believe the seeds were being sown , of what has since been called the time obsession of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Academic booksellers and publishers are facing a time of profound change . |
| 12 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
| 13 | The boat 's heating is not working , the crew 's sleeping bags are damp and several of them have been seasick , but the verdict is unanimous : they are having the time of their loves . |
| 14 | ‘ For your information , those ‘ poor little girls ’ of yours are having the time of their lives playing tag around our office . |
| 15 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 16 | I really am having the time of my life . |
| 17 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 18 | The member of staff on playground duty can be taking a policing role or can be using the time to motivate and interest children . |
| 19 | Group personnel departments have sent out booking forms to be filled in and anyone interested will be given a time to attend the clinic . |
| 20 | They might be given no time to put down territorial roots . |
| 21 | ‘ When the ref makes the scrum come up and back again , like in the Moore case , the packs must be given the time and position to reset properly . |
| 22 | The senior nurse in the Planning Unit or another suitable senior nurse should be given the time and authority to carry out an establishment " exercise throughout the Health Authority . |
| 23 | BRAKES should be checked every time before you ride . |
| 24 | This illustrates , too , the other key point about demonstration : it does not have to be done every time by the sort of presenter you can find selling vegetable slicers in Selfridges ' basement , as a straight , face-to-the-camera spiel . |
| 25 | If further steps are to be performed a time delay is needed before the next excitation change . |
| 26 | Scanning need not be performed every time a module is updated as LIFESPAN will automatically scan a module when an attempt is made to enter it . |
| 27 | In this case , the district nurse or physiotherapist will teach the carer how to lift the patient safely , and the lift must be used every time the patient needs to get out of bed or up from his chair . |
| 28 | But in all places save the bigger cities murder is a rare event , and had you chosen some small locality , however well known to you and attractive , your atmosphere of realism would be reduced every time that one more murder ( and murder you almost must have ) was notified to the police station . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm having the time of my life . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose the difficulty is going to be finding a time in the next couple of weeks when we 're both free . ’ |