Example sentences of "[adv] it be [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all that activity accomplished , suddenly it was time to order the Christmas tree again , and another cycle was complete . |
| 2 | Apparently it was Gibson Strings that pioneered such innovations as the ‘ double lock twist ball ’ and the use of alloys . |
| 3 | Erm paint is now solvent based or s I know it 's gon na be phased out but basically it 's solvent based . |
| 4 | The area last saw eruptions in 1975 and 1954 : perhaps it 's time to go . |
| 5 | So perhaps it 's time to look to ourselves for fun , not to chemicals that make us edgy , paranoid , ill — and broke . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's time to lend a hand . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is time to ask ourselves whether the notion of treatment by opposites , which has held the stage for so long , is indeed the false path that Hahnemann considered it to be . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is time to rethink the objectives of this aspect of health promotion . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is time to recognise that the country-sport vote and lobby should also be taken seriously . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was panic setting in . |
| 11 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was time to go back upstairs . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was time to begin remembering . |
| 14 | And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve . |
| 15 | The ‘ Points ’ system had indeed triumphed , only it was IQ points that could now be accumulated . |
| 16 | That 's proved to be quite difficult because the firm as a whole is trying it out but it for example with M C S it can be related to a particular task , to a particular erm assignment , so it 's assignment related . |
| 17 | So it 's X cubed . |
| 18 | So it was relief to find that people still wanted to employ me . |
| 19 | So it was time to attend to the synthetic pathways , about which very little was known . |
| 20 | All too soon it is time to slow down and leave the motorway , descending into smaller-scale streets , into the congestion of traffic lights , roundabouts , T-junctions . |
| 21 | All too soon it is time to say goodbye to Amsterdam and return home . |
| 22 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 23 | Soon it was time to stop , hum a tune , take a few calming breaths , and generally try to kid myself that nothing unusual was happening here . |
| 24 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 25 | After we returned home it was time to order seeds for the coming year and get stuck into renovations of Melin Cottage . |
| 26 | Once slowed with the airbrakes one could manoeuvre close in with great accuracy , but with fuel running low it was time to descend to base . |
| 27 | Partly it was fire directed at the father he carried in his heart , whom he still loved and admired despite everything , and who , after all , had been his benefactor and model for so long . |
| 28 | Now it is time to go on and find out how you can increase your mental efficiency . |
| 29 | Now it is time to bring movement and activity into those secure , quiet recesses . |
| 30 | Now it is time to shake yourself free from the gentle form of the dove . |