Example sentences of "a time for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A time for celebration … . |
| 2 | A fact especially true of ‘ Commitment ’ , always a time for Robin 's sorrowful unshackling . |
| 3 | It 's a time for experts to be patient , practising tricks , joining the light weather races , or just sunbathing . |
| 4 | best on the nineteenth money , finance has become a little shaky as Saturn the planet of restriction approaches to Venus on the twenty sixth , this is not a time for speculation . |
| 5 | Maybe when they come to perform to each other that is for them a time for evaluation and assessment , and I consciously make it one , because it 's important when they produce , when they perform their music they really bare their souls . |
| 6 | It was a time for flower power and a return to nature and the simple ways . |
| 7 | Bereavement — a time for help |
| 8 | Hardly a time for complacency , yet either that or fatalistic resignation seems to have put America to sleep . |
| 9 | However , this is not a time for complacency because , although in many respects you are in control of your own destiny , there are certain obstacles to be surmounted before you have a completely free hand . |
| 10 | They would draw up a ‘ batting order ’ downstairs then go up to her bedroom one at a time for sex . |
| 11 | There was a a champion in the , in the weekend paper charging three hundred pound a a time for sex . |
| 12 | It is a time for faith . |
| 13 | It was a time for reflection in 1964 , when the film was released . |
| 14 | Too cold for frills and fancy dresses , more a time for furs . |
| 15 | It is a time for journals and diaries . |
| 16 | On a recent visit to a day centre , where a large number of old people had regular baths , I was told that bath time was a time for confidences and chats . |
| 17 | The early hours of the morning are a time for confidences . |
| 18 | She said that it was a time for prayer and especially for prayers of protection against evil of any kind and , sending for her holy book , quoted me the following passage : |
| 19 | If the early nineteen nineties are as testing a time for U S and U K markets as many people predict I 'm nonetheless confident that Pearson is better placed than most companies to withstand this . |
| 20 | He was right , of course , this was not a time for love . |
| 21 | Was it a time for tears or a time for laughter , a time for war or a time for peace ? |
| 22 | Retirement is a time of great change and should also be a time for development . |
| 23 | As Joy Larkcom points out , the original text was ‘ notable for its clarity and brevity : this was a time for instructions , not explanations ’ . |
| 24 | Besides which it 's a heck of a time for Noorda to be discussing succession — when so much of what can be accomplished with Unix seems to depend on his personal touch . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway it was n't a time for painting pictures , Little Father . ’ |
| 26 | Was it a time for tears or a time for laughter , a time for war or a time for peace ? |
| 27 | It was not a time for students of the world to ponder the great matters of global history , to care about the great beyond , to notice the unleashing of distant energies . |
| 28 | When we are privileged to know this in advance ( and I think that it is wrong in nearly all cases not to tell a dying patient ) it is a time for preparation and repentance , and ultimately of acceptance . |
| 29 | Biological features of the colonizing vegetation were seen to change with time and from the rate of change in these features a time for ecosystem recovery was calculated . |
| 30 | She would be pleased that the orphans were having a Christmas in the bosom of a family , since Christmas is a time for families . |