Example sentences of "[be] [art] time for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two hundred and thirty miles on the road should have been a time for strengthening bonds and for unifying our resolve , but I felt continually at cross-purposes with him . |
| 2 | Adolescence will be a time for facing new situations and some burning issues about the need for independence , employment and ‘ dating ’ . |
| 3 | Some day there might be a time for setting light to both Carrog and Sycarth , and driving their households homeless into the hills ; but not now , that was to fritter away all these preparations upon a minor consideration . |
| 4 | Play times can be a time for reducing stress and keeping trouble out of school . |
| 5 | Christmas looks to be a time for burying the hatchet or exhuming it for re-examination . |
| 6 | PRINCESS Margaret will celebrate her 62nd birthday today — but it will not be a time for partying . |
| 7 | But the sixties were a time for breaking rules , transgressing limits . |
| 8 | If you have been holding off before making changes , now is the time for making some new beginnings . |
| 9 | ‘ Drink/drive campaigns have been successful in changing social attitudes , now is the time for raising awareness of road manners and the Highway Code . ’ |
| 10 | This is no time for pretending that all will automatically be sweetness and light , just because you have a deep affection for each other . |
| 11 | There is no time for ‘ rubbish ’ ; there is no time for reading ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 12 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 13 | So this is a time for shedding illusions and for staking up such relative certainties as exist . |
| 14 | This is a time for using your creativity to its fullest extent . |
| 15 | The introduction runs : ‘ Christmas is a time for looking forward to the future and remembering the past while remaining keenly aware of the present . ’ |
| 16 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 17 | The time of youth in all creatures is a time for exercising and learning to use the mental as well as physical apparatus with which they have been born , of trying out their preprogrammed patterns . |
| 18 | Easter in the United States is a time for dressing up ; Easter bonnets and egg hunts are surprisingly popular . |
| 19 | This is a time for hanging out signals to our friends . |
| 20 | This evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 21 | This evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 22 | Evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 23 | ‘ Middle life is a time for making all sorts of adjustments and adaptations . |
| 24 | In contrast , ‘ this time we can be better prepared … this is a time for doing the thinking , so that we can make things how we want them to be ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Now , now ! there 's no time for cryin' . |
| 26 | There 's no time for imagining things in this house . |
| 27 | With the FA Cup semi-final replay against Portsmouth on Monday , Grobbelaar said : ‘ There 's no time for feeling sorry for ourselves . |
| 28 | It was a time for looking back , for appreciating the warmth and supportive atmosphere which is characteristic of Somerville and which seems to give Somervillians the confidence and enthusiasm to develop and contribute in so many different ways . |
| 29 | I knew that Ramadan was a time for sharing and that shared feasts were not unusual , but the Sheikha 's mother had surpassed herself . |
| 30 | It was a time for thanking God that Matthew had turned his back on the badness that might have dragged him down . |