Example sentences of "in time [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list . |
| 2 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 3 | David Young , the Lions prop , has recovered from his hamstring strain in time to be included in the Cardiff side to tackle the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 4 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |
| 5 | The buildings were damaged by the fall of the campanile but rebuilt , just in time to be almost completely razed by fire . |
| 6 | The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized . |
| 7 | Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed . |
| 8 | Then a little further out blazes a great American packet ( the Roraima ) , which arrived on the scene just in time to be overwhelmed by the catastrophe . |
| 9 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 10 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 11 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 12 | They could not have learned the trade in time to be of any practical use to the employers in keeping orders going . |
| 13 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 14 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 15 | They spent three intense weeks correcting and rechecking the entire book , and it was ready in time to be in the bookstores by the April publication date . |
| 16 | I also wonder what will happen if I have a second child — Mark might not make it back from work in time to be with me . ’ |
| 17 | By Ottoman reckoning Molla Fenari would have been twenty in Safar 770 , and it is perhaps possible to suppose that he could have returned from Egypt in time to be appointed at the end of the year . |
| 18 | Make sure it arrives in time to be included in the next issue . |
| 19 | I arrived at the House in time to be greeted by the sight of Alan Clark , the maverick right wing MP for Plymouth Sutton , rushing out of Westminster Hall shouting at the top of his voice , ‘ She 's won , she 's won . ’ |
| 20 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |
| 21 | Around 650 responses of this kind were received in time to be included in the analysis . |
| 22 | This is Rupert , a 5 month old Barn Owl who was deserted by his parents at a few days old , but found in time to be saved and hand reared . |
| 23 | Deputy Central Office agent Peter Smith said thousands of leaflets had been given to the Royal Mail in time to be sent out but were not delivered . |