Example sentences of "a time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A time for disinterested contemplation , he wrote . |
| 2 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 3 | It was a time for fierce tactics , not for scruples . |
| 4 | Retirement is a time of great change and should also be a time for development . |
| 5 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 6 | For the West , as for the Poles , there was a time for obstinate political defiance . |
| 7 | The retreat was a time for fear at first , and self-scrutiny . |
| 8 | But now , it was a time for truth and Phoebe said , ‘ No . |
| 9 | He gave me 50p at a time for my fares and lunch . |
| 10 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 11 | So this is a time for shedding illusions and for staking up such relative certainties as exist . |
| 12 | Next year will certainly be a time for married women although their husbands will also be able to benefit from the personal tax changes which come into force on April 6 . |
| 13 | The builder could no longer rely on eye alone ; the Renaissance was a time for an order based on detailed knowledge . |
| 14 | It is a time for Germanically cautious central banking . |
| 15 | This is a time for action … the country is waiting for an inspiring lead on a programme of courageous national reconstruction . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a time for other artists . ’ |
| 17 | Hardly a time for complacency , yet either that or fatalistic resignation seems to have put America to sleep . |
| 18 | It was a time for being away from the cities , for reading and reflection , and being alone with nature . |
| 19 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 20 | Play times can be a time for reducing stress and keeping trouble out of school . |
| 21 | Should it be primarily about celebration of success and ways of ensuring further successes or is it a time for grizzling at parents ? |
| 22 | It was a time for reflection in 1964 , when the film was released . |
| 23 | ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’ |
| 24 | That was a time for rejoicing and oaths of loyalty ; but now every man was called on to help decide the future of the clan . |
| 25 | But the sixties were a time for breaking rules , transgressing limits . |
| 26 | These two hundred and thirty miles on the road should have been a time for strengthening bonds and for unifying our resolve , but I felt continually at cross-purposes with him . |
| 27 | This is not a time for logic but for immediate reaction . |
| 28 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 29 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 30 | It is also a time for sociability , a release from the tedium of the job . |