Example sentences of "[be] the time [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such are the times in which we live that the decision to leave his expletives unbleeped prompted tabloid news stories but , really , the programme was quite intensely moral . |
| 3 | The system down times recorded will be the times during which there is a total loss of service due to a problem with the central system . |
| 4 | Soon it would be the time for her evening drink : " Just the one , Gigi , do n't you think ? " she would croon when the old bird , freed from her cage , crawled up to crouch against her cheek . |
| 5 | So unless he is coming to live with you , this will be the time for you to begin to show him how to cope alone . |
| 6 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Where the fetch , or distance at the disposal of the wind for the generation of waves , is very large the factor governing the height of the waves is the time during which a wind of a given strength has.been blowing . |
| 9 | ‘ With a glut of farming properties on the market in parts of south west England at drastically reduced prices , now is the time for them to buy , ’ Dai Jenkin says . |
| 10 | She is inferring that when mortals feel secure , and sound in their knowledge of others , then that is the time for them to be unsure of most , because if anything is going to happen , it will happen then . |
| 11 | You have got to know when to quit and now is the time for me . |
| 12 | If Mr Major really wishes to ditch the more arrogant whims of his predecessor , now is the time for him to put his money where his mouth is . |
| 13 | Well now is the time for everyone to be aware of it . |
| 14 | ‘ But now is the time for everyone with the club at heart to rally round . |
| 15 | But now is the time for everyone to roll up their sleeves . ’ |
| 16 | The smaller the change the longer is the time for which the two solutions remain close , but they never do so indefinitely . |
| 17 | November is the time for our big Rally at the Crystal Palace Sports Centre ; this year it will be on Saturday the 24th . |
| 18 | That is the time for there to be nothing wrong with our drawings . |
| 19 | Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps now is the time for us , as Christians , to reflect on our contribution to this non-communication . |
| 21 | " I do n't believe that this is the time for us to profit from each other 's misery so I hereby cancel all sales of food which have taken place this afternoon . |
| 22 | Now is the time for someone to make a movie and show how music and the summer of love has affected everything . |
| 23 | ‘ Come , lad , now is the time for you to make up your mind . |
| 24 | on a lot of systems , really now is the time for you to try and go and buy a new system , because you can knock them down immensely really good bargains the basic |
| 25 | I know that this is the time with your sex to watch over the changes of their temper . |
| 26 | This is the time at which children learn most about the standards of behaviour in our society . |
| 27 | This is the time at which the Caesarian operation should be performed . |
| 28 | This is the time at which hormonal changes halt the production of ova and end the menstrual cycle . |
| 29 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |
| 30 | 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 . |