Example sentences of "it be [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , because it 's on the same time as Emmerdale . |
| 2 | Yes , yes , it sounds it sounds as it 's for a limited time anyway , so , you know |
| 3 | It 's about the only time I really hate the job , you know — with accidents and so on … having to tell the relatives , and all that . ’ |
| 4 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 5 | No cos I 've seen this done before right , I mean it 's over a certain time , but if you go in at the end of the time |
| 6 | We need periodically to consider whether existing methods are the best that can be devised for dealing with crime in the context of society as it is at a given time . |
| 7 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 8 | It is , it is , yes , is it , it is at the present time , but it is it is growing . |
| 9 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
| 10 | As the disturbance goes more deeply into the organism from the physical to the emotional plane , from the emotional to the mental and finally to the spiritual , it is at the same time becoming higher up in the organism as it is pictured diagrammatically in Figure 3 . |
| 11 | It is at the same time hovering between styles . |
| 12 | That she is so is essentially an untruth , but it is at the same time a socially undeniable fact , even today , although it was probably a more widespread one 20 odd years ago . |
| 13 | It is an irony that as the government makes great claims about its job creation record for West Belfast it is at the same time in the process of running down some major sources of employment in the area , most notably the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 14 | It is at the same time stressed , however , that it is not the " true function of literature " to engage with the contemporary " social problem " . |
| 15 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that on the day this bungling Government is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole on pit closures , it is at the same time drilling itself into a well on oil jobs . |
| 16 | We both agree that he should be able to offer favourable terms for the hire of the slope for the proposed event , provided it is at an off-peak time . |
| 17 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 18 | I ask a simple question to which I know that there is a simple answer , but I still think that it is worth a little time to discover it : why are the Government in such a desperate hurry to get the Bill back to the House on 26 February ? |
| 19 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 20 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 21 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 22 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 23 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 24 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 25 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 26 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 27 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 28 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 29 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 30 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |