Example sentences of "be [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities . |
| 2 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ For your information , those ‘ poor little girls ’ of yours are having the time of their lives playing tag around our office . |
| 8 | I really am having the time of my life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The member of staff on playground duty can be taking a policing role or can be using the time to motivate and interest children . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm having the time of my life . ’ |
| 14 | But Philippa was n't to be allowed the time to get really depressed . |
| 15 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
| 16 | Your donations should be sent to Oxford Preservation Trust , and you will be sent the time capsule . |
| 17 | Phyllis Bowman said at the weekend that the best the society could hope for would be reducing the time limit to 18 weeks . |
| 18 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 19 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 20 | But , if they were to reduce the time it takes to qualify , I definitely do n't think is should be any less than four years . |
| 21 | Which suggests that both bands would benefit from being afforded the time and backing needed to develop , without being under too much pressure to sign a deal . |
| 22 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 23 | If they can not see where the time has been recorded the time will not normally be allowed . |
| 24 | I 'm sure you have had the time , what you do n't do is make the time because |
| 25 | ‘ She 's taking the long way back , ’ she would say , ‘ the sun 's still warm … she 's enjoying herself … she 's forgotten the time … . ’ |
| 26 | What we now need to ask is has the time arrived er for this measure to begin to be acceptable by the Home Office , it would be nice if there was a just a little indication er as I 'm er proceeding through er this measure from the minister at the despatch box , that the time was now right for this er particular proposal er which was not anything that was voted against er on second reading but merely failed to overcome the hurdle of getting a closure when by seventy eight votes to nil er it was carried except that carrying was not sufficient in order arrive at a closure so that the measure could move in the committee . |
| 27 | The effect they have on performance is to increase the time taken for transactions on the Working-Set database . |
| 28 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 29 | ‘ The important thing is to know the time delay between when the fire starts and the detector operates , ’ says Peter Burray , head of fire detection at the station . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |