Example sentences of "[noun] be [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These quiet hours are a time of peace , where every long soft minute is a luxury . |
| 2 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 3 | ‘ Midlife is a time when suppressed emotions tend to come to the surface . |
| 4 | Halfway through interviewing candidates is no time for governor discord or financial disagreements to surface , or for the true needs of the school to be hastily compromised . |
| 5 | Where the fetch , or distance at the disposal of the wind for the generation of waves , is very large the factor governing the height of the waves is the time during which a wind of a given strength has.been blowing . |
| 6 | Spring is the time when the government primes the pump to help farmers prepare their fields and the far north to recover from winter . |
| 7 | So , spring is the time of great activity in the bird world , and few events are more exciting to birdwatchers in Shetland than the spring passage of migrants . |
| 8 | Spring is the time when everything starts growing again after the winter . |
| 9 | Easter in the United States is a time for dressing up ; Easter bonnets and egg hunts are surprisingly popular . |
| 10 | made the evening quite memorable — i guess sunderland are not too popular up in newcastle ehh ? what about leeds — equally hated ? actually — to the newcastle fans credit — i was hearing words like ‘ that 's futballing class ’ when liverpool from time to time delivered the goods … ruddock of course got booh 's every time he was near the ball … |
| 11 | Being at college is a time of great activity for you — intellectual development , physical growth , psychological insight — so it 's also a time when you may well experience particularly vivid dreams . |
| 12 | Midlife is a time when the results of bad posture can cause trouble . |
| 13 | Midlife is a time to come to terms with the past so that the future can be faced with no unfinished business to block the way ahead . |
| 14 | and I believe that , that three months is the time limit |
| 15 | The continuing use after that time of recognition is a time of testing whether control is possible or whether it has indeed been lost . |
| 16 | A major problem for those wishing to persuade Mrs Thatcher to change her mind was the time constraint imposed by the leadership election rules . |
| 17 | Once the new curriculum was underway , the predominant concern of the department was the time it was taking to cover the syllabus . |
| 18 | Semenyaka is an honoured People 's Artist , but she agrees : ‘ Our heyday was the time of Diaghilev , Nijinsky and Karsavina , and the fact that they inspired Fokine and Balanchine . |
| 19 | After Fisher died Ramsey said that the time in their lives when they were closest in friendship was the time when he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chester . |
| 20 | The first eighteen months was a time of frustration . |
| 21 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 22 | If you 're like me , winter is a time of withdrawal symptoms and dreaming of clear blue skies . |
| 23 | Winter is the time everyone wants their summer collections shooting ; Miami is an exciting location and the light is great . ’ |
| 24 | Winter is the time to lie back and sink into the great British bath . |
| 25 | We find winter is the time when most people come and have a chat to us ; we 've got a regular following of visitors and you get to know them quite well . |
| 26 | It is essential that a thorough selection trawl of new books is made , because important titles must be put into stock before they have a chance to go out of print , and because the first year or two after publication is the time that books are usually in most demand . |
| 27 | ‘ With Christmas out of the way , January is the time when some women will leave violent situations . ’ |
| 28 | Put more politely , December is a time when you must become bigger than situations in order to transcend them . |
| 29 | Family suffering is a time of reckoning , when the genuineness of goodness and character , faith and hope , love and forbearance with one another are most severely tested . |
| 30 | The excepted proceedings , which are specified , are actions in defamation , relator actions , certain proceedings for the recovery of a penalty , election petitions , actions relating to judgment summons in the county court , actions in the county court where the only question is the time and mode of payment of a debt , and any incidental proceedings . |