Example sentences of "it [be] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the time of death that concerns me at present , sir , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's the time of year where you 're starting to think I wonder if we 'll be nearly finished . |
| 4 | It 's the time of year , of course , when the fire brigade can be busy , when things go wrong . |
| 5 | oh it 's the time for violets is n't it ? |
| 6 | It is the time for Nature 's great conjuring trick , when green leaves become crimson , gold , russet and purple . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is the time of the Indian Sanyasa — the leaving of the material life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 14 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 17 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | It was the time of ‘ the Troubles ’ . |
| 24 | It was the time of the sixty war . |
| 25 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 26 | When he came to Bristol it was the time of a developing awareness among young people . |
| 27 | It was the time of day when the soul speaks Latin |
| 28 | It was the time of the mods-and-rockers ’ invasion of the seaside towns . |
| 29 | It was the time of Entertaining Mr Sloane , a play Ken did n't at first see himself . |
| 30 | As I say , it was the time of harvest wi , the time of barley harvest when they arrived at Bethlehem . |