Example sentences of "[pron] be the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longer term help is something that I do n't think teachers can do on their own , I do n't think even somebody like a , a specialist school counsellor can do on their own , which is the time at which the availability of agency help needs to be , become apparent . |
| 2 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 3 | However , the monopoly granted extends back to the priority date , which is the time from which damages can be assessed should the patent be infringed , although legal proceedings can not be commenced until the patent has been granted . |
| 4 | Which was the time of Recovery . |
| 5 | Er it would have been better had he perhaps said , well there 's the time for the job , there 's your card , there 's all the operations listed for you , from one to sixteen or whatever it might be , and each one itemized you know , as to how long it might take . |
| 6 | And then there 's the time with the cart when you stand , like this mornin' , lookin' after it and the pony . |
| 7 | Right , here are the distance time graphs of two walkers , there 's the time in seconds there 's the distance in metres |
| 8 | Fourth , there is the time of sadness , which is usually understood as the classic presentation of grief . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the time of death that concerns me at present , sir , ’ he said . |
| 10 | IT 'S THE TIME OF THE karāti , THE NIGHTS LEADING UP TO THE full-moon festival , when the gods enter the dhāmis and use their bodies to dance among the villagers . |
| 11 | It 's the time of year where you 're starting to think I wonder if we 'll be nearly finished . |
| 12 | It 's the time of year , of course , when the fire brigade can be busy , when things go wrong . |
| 13 | oh it 's the time for violets is n't it ? |
| 14 | It is the time for Nature 's great conjuring trick , when green leaves become crimson , gold , russet and purple . |
| 15 | With that as the background , it is the time for a deep study of the philosophy underlying the system — to determine afresh what we ought to be seeking to achieve , to examine how far and in what manner the results of our present practice fall short , and to sift new ideas in order to judge which of them appear both constructive and practicable in operation . |
| 16 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 17 | It is the time during which the evolutionary process was producing the human form as it now is , and laying down the pattern from which man , in remote retrospect , can now extract the necessary information on which to lay the foundation of the concept of the Created God , and to understand how he must develop that concept . |
| 18 | It is the time of the Indian Sanyasa — the leaving of the material life . |
| 19 | It is the time of year and the period of political history when many of the great campaigning organisations in penal reform have their anniversaries . |
| 20 | Mr McGrady said : ‘ It is important that farmers receive this premium as it is the time of the year that they take land in conacre . ’ |
| 21 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 22 | It was the time of the Baedeker raids , when German bombers struck cathedral towns , and some of the guests who stayed in York the night before had sleepless hours . |
| 23 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 24 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 25 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 26 | Rhetorically , it was the time of the great horticultural images of education , derived perhaps first from Rousseau and reinforced by Froebel , for whom the child was the tender plant growing in the garden , the kindergarten . |
| 27 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 28 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |
| 29 | It was the time of day when the tables were mostly occupied by kids , all dressed to the nines , playing more with the Steve Davis ‘ cool ’ than the St£e Davis ‘ skill ’ . |
| 30 | It was the time of ‘ the Troubles ’ . |