Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We summoned the sorcerers , and we sat long nights in Council , for we knew that we dare not wait until it was time for the Ritual of the Beastline to take place ; we had to know long before that if the birth of twins into the Royal House had truly damaged the Enchantment . |
| 2 | Discussion and questioning will be needed to establish if it is evidence from the past , or if it is a later interpretation . |
| 3 | Well I 'm sure , I do n't know whether it 's sort of easy to wear when you 're playing croquet or I suppose |
| 4 | Hall reveals through his examination of Colnaghi documents that Berenson 's recommendations at times ‘ follow almost word for word , Gutekunst 's own letters to Berenson ’ , suggesting that it is time for a re-examination of the role of dealers as well as the more famous advisers in influencing taste . |
| 5 | At the end of his campaign Ortega announced that it was time to " put away the olive green " ( the colour of the Sandinista Army uniform ) and expressed the hope that the electoral process would " open a new chapter in co-operation between the USA and Nicaragua " . |
| 6 | The ringing of a bell from downstairs announced that it was time for supper and Emily realized quite suddenly that she was hungry . |
| 7 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 8 | The survey revealed that it is women over the age of 45 and largely in the middle class AB and C1 social brackets who are addicted to detective series . |
| 9 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 10 | Now that society is at last recognizing and developing the full range of women 's abilities and now that women are seen to have , with men , full ‘ human rights ’ , many people conclude that it is time for the Church of England to embody in its official ministry the biblical vision of equal partnership between women and men . |
| 11 | Robbie recognised that it was time to back down . |
| 12 | He says that it 's part of the town 's heritage . |
| 13 | In the subsequent show report , I proclaimed that it was love at first sight and when I heard that a new model was in the offing which would , the company told me , prove to be their most eye-catching to date , I pestered them for weeks until they sent me one for review . |
| 14 | No wonder Americans have decided that it 's time for an end to non-interventionalist government . |
| 15 | Down at the one-time pavilion that was now the Venetz sisters ' lakeside restaurant , Angelica Venetz had decided that it was time for the big old mallard 's appointment in duck heaven . |
| 16 | If 19 April 1023 saw expressions of anti-Danish feeling , Cnut could have decided that it was time for the situation to be defused by removing the body to Canterbury . |
| 17 | But his wife had said that it was time for an opportunity to wear something other than thick tweeds . |
| 18 | We have seen that it is communication with another person who is experiencing some kind of emotional trouble , or acting under stress in some way . |
| 19 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 20 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |
| 21 | Well it all depends if it 's value for money because we er , we fe we felt that it 's only one day . |
| 22 | She was being persecuted and it was part of a carefully laid plan . |
| 23 | Mm , ah I mean if it was the question I mean I 've got that material we 've got it , I mean if it was question of sending out , I mean I could do that . |
| 24 | but I mean if it was sort of about s s five yards , it would n't be five yards by three yards . |
| 25 | In 1988 a visiting colleague from the Royal Ulster Constabulary asked if it was part of my role in Systems Development Department to comment on such essays . |
| 26 | She snoozes until it 's time to be fed , |
| 27 | The fighting was instigated by Hezbollah , which prompted some commentators to suggest that it was part of an Iranian effort to undermine the Saudi-instigated Taif peace process . |
| 28 | People like Mr Falk are trained and I would have thought that it is people like him who should be involved in such programmes . |
| 29 | I could see that it was time for me to make the tea . |
| 30 | Friedman and Schwartz , however , claimed that it was changes in the nominal money supply which caused changes in money national income ( recall the mechanism described in Chapter 21 ) and , once again , they appealed to empirical evidence to support their view . |