Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 But it can be altered as time goes by , if a client can afford extra premiums , their salary allows them to have extra increases , it can be altered , but would nec would possibly want medical underwriting for any future increasing .
2 Given the inclusion of so many considerations , it is not surprising that standards may be amended from time to time : for example , standards may be made more stringent if new scientific research reveals a lower threshold of effect than was previously believed to exist .
3 The contents of this handbook may be amended from time to time .
4 This should be undertaken from time to time with assistance in recruiting , training expansion of groups and also with Liturgical experiences .
5 There are several ways in which the five responses might be summarized into a single score for each month which could then be traced over time .
6 The exact unexpired terms of long leases are not so critical , but details must be given of time remaining on shorter leases .
7 Although there are important differences between the various theories , the great majority of researchers assert that ‘ aggression ’ ( however defined ; see below for a discussion on definitions ) is an integral part of human nature ; and that aggressive impulses and behaviour have somehow to be directed and controlled for human relations to be sustained over time in a social setting .
8 Interviews conducted during the course indicate the importance of task achievement and of the related social processes which encourage self development ; and these consequences appear to be sustained over time .
9 The declaration draws attention to faster than expected world population growth and the accelerating pace of environmental decay , and concludes : " Sustainable development can be achieved , but only if irreversible degradation of the environment can be halted in time .
10 This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use .
11 Indeed , for all cases where the to infinitive evokes " subsequent potentiality " the support is necessarily seen or implied to be situated in time prior to the event .
12 Alice 's heart seemed to be thumping in time with the train wheels as she looked at Harry 's glowing face opposite her .
13 This new ‘ workflow ’ software opened up vast new possibilities for DIP solutions that could be justified on time savings and service improvements as well as space savings .
14 A Korean acetic acid plant will be completed on time .
15 There is no way that the repairs will be completed on time , but we have been assured that the hall will be patched up and the festival will be running as planned . ’
16 If a back-up copy is available a potential disaster can be averted and the urgent report or whatever can still be completed on time .
17 However , the rest of the work will not be completed in time for the season , which will make life running a heavily-booked programme of events difficult .
18 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 .
19 The implementation of measures 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 depend upon action by both the profession and the Government , but we believe the necessary steps can be completed in time for implementation in April 1993 .
20 John Hart , Assistant Director ( Curriculum ) comments : ‘ Aspects of two major areas of review will be completed in time for the next Catalogue .
21 This could debar over one-third of the population from voting , since , according to the current regulations , only citizens of pre-war Estonia and their descendants were automatically entitled to citizenship , and the long application process for others would not be completed in time .
22 There is some doubt as to whether the processes of investigation and legislation will be completed in time for the 1995 revaluation .
23 A year-long project to update the library at Darlington College of Technology should be completed in time for the new school year in September .
24 If seismic mapping of the new reservoir can be completed in time , BP may send a rig to drill more wells there this summer to establish the production potential for the field , which is thought to have reserves of 250 million to 500 million barrels .
25 He 'll tip us off when he knows where and when the hit is due to take place so that it can be stopped in time .
26 If they can not be stopped in time , mankind will surely be doomed .
27 Any time spent in doing other things than attempting to transmit the meme may be regarded as time wasted from the meme 's point of view .
28 The draftsman should either designate in the lease the place where the advertisement may be maintained , or grant the tenant a right to maintain an advertisement in such place as may be designated from time to time by the landlord or his surveyor .
29 The aesthetic quality of the results will depend heavily on the artistic ability of the user but even these skills can be developed in time
30 It increasingly realized that no technical measures could assure compliance by the extended 1977 deadline , and that since an adequate mass transit system could not be developed in time , only petrol rationing would lead to attainment .
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