Example sentences of "time it [be] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time it is the voice of a prominent theologian , David Edwards . |
| 2 | But at any other time it 's the end of your turn . |
| 3 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 4 | At that time it was the idea of looking out over fields of swaying poppies and cornflowers that appealed to the Prince . |
| 5 | But this time it was the monks of Canterbury who were offended , for Anselm took their plate to help him pay . |
| 6 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 7 | This time it was the turn of Pauls , the food division , to thrive on the back of high pig prices and strong demand for malt from the Japanese whisky industry . |
| 8 | This time it was the turn of the large-practice firms and ‘ Barons ‘ to express successfully their concern . |
| 9 | This time it was the turn of the Americans to experience feelings of profound dismay and disappointment . |
| 10 | By the end of the fifteenth century Louis XII was already using French in his letters to other monarchs ( the only significant exception was Poland , whose ruler he wrote to in Latin ) , while at the same time it was the language of the imperial court under Maximilian I. The century or more which followed saw a tendency for it to be used increasingly as the language of diplomacy . |