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

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1 ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth .
2 Whoever could it be at this time of night ?
3 So it 's all it 's from that time on it 's .
4 ‘ How beautiful it is at this time of the year . ’
5 It is about this time of year that life at the headquarters of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour gets a little hectic for Membership Secretary Marion Davies .
6 It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent .
7 It was at that time like wine to be in the presence of the Lusignan Bastard , ebullient , assured of success , glowing with pride in himself and his army .
8 That 's how tight it was at that time o' day !
9 It was at some time within this period of dawning civilisation that the creatures at the head of the biological chain , that is , man 's early forebears , first experienced the effect of an intellectual development that directed their behaviour towards what was to become the origins of human cooperation .
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