Example sentences of "[adj] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 2 | He said that he would devote his ‘ best exertions and abilities ’ to the work , and concluded by asking for ‘ proper time for a work of such importance ’ . |
| 3 | If I had n't chucked away the rulebook shortly after Johannes Gutenburg invented printing , this would be the proper time for me to rise and shine . |
| 4 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |
| 5 | Unless the parties agree a different time for payment , the seller can sue for the price only after property has passed , section 49 ( see paragraph 12 02 ) . |
| 6 | Is it possible to arrange a different time for the accounts to be returned ? |
| 7 | Which makes it an apposite time for the Science Museum to open a new £1.2m permanent Gallery , Food For Thought , to ‘ explain the impact of science and technology on today 's food ’ . |
| 8 | This will be an especially interesting time for accountants , as Andrew Baird , of specialist software company 4Sight Communications , explains . |
| 9 | For the visitor to the city each will offer very different experiences and with two new directors adding their own personalities to the space , it should be an interesting time for both . |
| 10 | And four and a quarter hours later , when it actually was four , and the bedclothes both above and below were a mere conglomerate heap , and Tessa 's strapping behind had pushed right across the bed , and Bob was cold and stiff from head to foot , and had been neither asleep nor awake for a moment , it felt as though the solar system had finally run down and stopped , and closed off the ever-renewing spring of pure , fresh time for good and all . |
| 11 | It was an exciting time for the profession . |
| 12 | Christmas day is a busy and exciting time for everyone , but we should not forget the reason for our celebration . |
| 13 | The decision to start a family is an exciting time for any couple planning a life together . |
| 14 | This is a very exciting time for me . |
| 15 | It is an exciting time for Douglas Reyburn which is undergoing a period of change that is the most significant in its sixty year history . |
| 16 | It was a very inconvenient time for murder . |
| 17 | His quickest time for a 30-question puzzle was three-and-a-half minutes , which he did in the national championships though doing less well on the second puzzle meant he missed coming top . |
| 18 | So , according to the laws of Leviticus , women were forbidden to enter the Temple or touch any hallowed thing during their times of menstrual uncleanness , whilst with regard to childbirth they were similarly removed from cultic activity , this time for forty days following delivery of a boy and significantly eighty days after that of a girl . |
| 19 | Paisley was back in prison , this time for his part in the Armagh demonstrations , but that did not stop him characterizing the Cameron Commission as a betrayal of the Ulster people to the rebels . |
| 20 | I tried joining another group , this time for compulsive eaters . |
| 21 | Another quintet , by Dutch composer Tristan Keuris , this time for clarinet and strings in which the Gabrieli was joined by Janet Hilton , was less personally characterised . |
| 22 | In 1867 he set off again , this time for Vietnam , and from there to Hong Kong . |
| 23 | I then had another operation , this time for my back where a piece of my spine was removed and a piece of metal inserted . |
| 24 | And it helped to maintain that crazy '70s wartime austerity , by forcing millions of us to flush the lavatory with our bathwater , boil potatoes in the fish pond and wait in yet more queues , this time for standpipe water . |
| 25 | A broken spring within one of the pair of twin-choke side-wrought Weber 45 DCOEs was discovered and replaced , this time for a fiver . |
| 26 | The police arrested my brother again and once more he was placed in remand , this time for four months . |
| 27 | Poles had fought both for and against Germany , and , partly because their state had not been involved in the war , Poles were ready — unlike the other participants in the war — to fight again , this time for something in which they had a stake . |
| 28 | But we will hear more of this in years to come and it is yet another sign that church planting is on God 's agenda at this time for Britain , for Europe , and for every nation . |
| 29 | Fletchers are famous for their forward planning , and so it was off to another aquatic centre , this time for some mortar to bed down the perimeter slabs . |
| 30 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |