Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the time to argue about the small print of your contract . |
| 2 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 3 | Yes , yes but , but it 's not the time |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , it 's just the time of the month . ’ |
| 5 | It 's just the time that really , you know , I just wan na get home . |
| 6 | Well , it 's only the time of the month . ’ |
| 7 | It should be stressed that they should carry on normally during the observation period ; it is simply the time when the specified behaviours are recorded . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ Politically it is not the time to talk about re-unification . |
| 9 | So , even amid the fading glow of the MCG 's floodlights , and the successful reintroduction of South Africa , it is not the time to sit still and just ponder the future . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not the time for vaulting that five-bar gate , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Editor , — With regard to academic medicine , surely it is not the time spent in research that is important but that the desired aim of awakening in the young doctor an appreciation of what science has to offer is achieved . |
| 12 | According to Visser ( 1966 : 669 ) , it is around the time of the passage from Old to Middle English that one witnesses the beginning of this " shrinkage " of the non-past , which loses more and more ground to the constructions with will and shall . |
| 13 | It is also the time to format column C to show dates and column H to currency or fixed format with two decimal places . |
| 14 | The resources for training programmes are available in the form of premises , training staff and ideas — it is just the time that is missing to allow staff to participate ’ … |
| 15 | With mid-summer approaching , it is hardly the time to reflect on winter festivals , but the success of the kids Christmas party in the canteen on 15th December could not pass without a mention . |
| 16 | It is certainly the time when the bereaved person begins to think about forming new attachments in various ways . |
| 17 | As air fresheners and other chemicals deliver only temporary results , it is now the time to try a new product which does n't just mask smells , but actually digests them , claim the manufacturers . |
| 18 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 19 | She bit back her anger , for it was neither the time nor the place to start an argument . |
| 20 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 21 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 22 | It was around the time of ‘ Strange Town ’ and he was starting to think that punk rock had had it and he was getting very emotional . |
| 23 | It was around the time of Eric Verrico 's disappearance that the three Bernard brothers — Bruce , Oliver and Jeffrey — came into Minton 's life . |
| 24 | But it was n't the time for secrets , or the place . |
| 25 | It was n't the time to be playing silly games . |
| 26 | It was n't the time for normal feelings , such as embarrassment . |
| 27 | It was n't the time to remind her mother that she was forty . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't the time , ’ his wife said . |
| 29 | But it was not the time for lingering or relaxation . |
| 30 | It was not the time to talk . |