Example sentences of "[art] time was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 2 | All the time was hers to work through her story/ fantasy ( ? ) /love letter . |
| 3 | ‘ I should be going , ’ she said , hoping that the time was a convincing one by now . |
| 4 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 5 | If Raskolnikov was to have mounted an assault of something like Grand Inquisitor proportions , if he was to have expatiated on the whole God business not being worth the pain of one misused child , then the time was n't ripe ; we must wait for Ivan Karamazov . |
| 6 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 7 | At the Madrid summit last summer , Sir Geoffrey Howe , who at the time was collaborating closely with Mr Lawson , tried to insist that she name a date after 1 July next year on which Britain would join . |
| 8 | Reiterating the ANC 's willingness to negotiate with the South African government , he said the time was not right for the ANC to abandon violence : ‘ The struggle inside South Africa and outside South Africa must continue . ’ |
| 9 | The time was just after 9.30 p.m. and beginning to get dusk . |
| 10 | The time was now 11.30 p.m. , the Germans were putting up their flares . |
| 11 | The time was now just after 1.30 a.m . |
| 12 | The time was now late afternoon . |
| 13 | The time was 6.30 a.m. , the bunks on either side of the hut were now showing signs of life and the Sergeant made his noisy way towards the door at the far end of the hut , banging on each bed with his stick as he went . |
| 14 | I looked at my watch , the time was just after 11 p.m. and I could see through the doorway the rain was still driving hard . |
| 15 | For later he also believed that the motor accident and its consequences could have destroyed his morale but for the tranquil worship of the little Oxfordshire village which for the time was his base . |
| 16 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 17 | Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around . |
| 18 | Once he had made the switch , however , Finniston tackled his successive responsibilities with great relish , including the awesome task of reorganising the British Steel Corporation , which at the time was 260,000 strong . |
| 19 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 20 | The conference had nothing like the coverage of either the British Medical Association or Royal Institute of British Architects festivities , so its impact on the public at the time was negligible ; but it marked a significant turn in the Prince 's own farming methods , brought environmental concerns slowly into consumer consciousness and in the long term dealt a devastating blow to the agrochemical industry . |
| 21 | And anyone who is brave enough to venture inside will realise how the time was spent . |
| 22 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 23 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 24 | They felt that the time was ripe for a new approach . |
| 25 | With a new Prime Minister at the helm , the time was opportune for a further review of strategy to take account of these recent advances in weapon systems . |
| 26 | After appointing Thorneycroft as Secretary of State for Defence in July 1962 , Macmillan decided that the time was ripe to take a further step in the gradual process of integrating the management of the Services . |
| 27 | By October 1989 , therefore , the time was right for a concerted diplomatic initiative against drift-net fishing . |
| 28 | But I now felt the time was coming to move on to another department . |
| 29 | He wished he knew what the time was . |
| 30 | He wondered what the time was . |