Example sentences of "[be] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 2 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 3 | Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies . |
| 4 | The real barrier has been the time spent apart , he says . |
| 5 | The extra ten minutes had probably only been the time it had taken them to find him . |
| 6 | For years , this has been the time when small bands of mushroom pickers wander through the forests . |
| 7 | This may have been the time when Nero and his advisers were concerned about Britain . |
| 8 | This would also have been the time for naked women on horseback to lead the community out into the fields , bearing symbols of fertility to ensure a plentiful harvest . |
| 9 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 10 | There had been the time , too , when Ruth made a painting of a dragon devouring a knight which had apparently scared another child . |
| 11 | The model for southeast England has been refined and developed and one reason for its modification has been the time allocated to mid-Tertiary earth movements as it was appreciated that these ‘ outer ripples of the Alpine storm ’ may have continued for longer than was at first envisaged . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's never been the time . ’ |
| 13 | We did walk somewhere one time and erm very very nice the it must have been the time when the salmon were riverside walk . |
| 14 | The disadvantages are the time it takes to build , and if you 're employing a builder , the cost — likely to be several thousand pounds for even a simple single garage . |
| 15 | A further extension through this horizon is then possible up to the next surface on which or at which the space-time again splits into two separating gravitational waves which are the time reverse of the initial approaching waves . |
| 16 | Infancy and early childhood are the time of basic sexual development ; pre-puberty — despite the " latency " concept — is the phase of accommodation to social thinking and relationships , and of first establishment of gender identity ; adolescence itself is marked by an upsurge of sexual feeling , establishment of sexual identity and — perhaps to an increasing extent — first true sexual experience . |
| 17 | The two quantities are the time taken for the waves to reach a patch and return to the Earth , which gives the range of the patches , and the Doppler-shift of such waves , which gives the motion of the patches . |
| 18 | So I 'm The time is going to be as per my watch . |
| 19 | No birth control method will work unless it is used regularly — the one time you take a chance could be the time pregnancy occurs ! |
| 20 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 21 | WITH interest rates going through the roof and budgets stretched now could be the time to embark upon some serious financial planning . |
| 22 | If the council did not react to that notice , then would be the time for the tenant to exercise the right to prosecute . |
| 23 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
| 24 | A little later on , when all the relatives have gone home and the number of attentive friends at the time of the funeral has dwindled , it might be the time when the bereaved begin to reflect on their changed circumstances and try to evaluate how they feel both about themselves and the person who has died . |
| 25 | In the West country waterside living offers a similar breadth of choice , and with the market approaching its low water mark , now might be the time to take the plunge . |
| 26 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 27 | Even assuming that the bureau could bear the additional nominal £150 that NACAB charges each year for keeping the system up to date , the heaviest cost would be the time of the person who must insert the monthly updates . |
| 28 | Retirement should be the time of the greatest joy in life . |
| 29 | The week following admission appears to be the time of greatest risk ( Copas and Robin 1982 ) . |
| 30 | An object the size of the Sun would take 29 minutes to collapse to a singularity under its own gravity — at least that would be the time measured by an observer stationed on its surface before he too vanished into zero dimensions . |