Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 2 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 3 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 4 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , in the hurly-burly of a busy existence it is likely that the next experience will occur ( rather like waves relentlessly breaking on the shore ) before there has been time to review . |
| 6 | Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species . |
| 7 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 8 | This arrived so soon we could n't believe there had been time to make them and get to the Matterhorn ! |
| 9 | If there had been time , I would have ordered several new suits . |
| 10 | Fortunately , there had been time to buy a half bottle of Bell 's on the way to Paddington . |