Example sentences of "[art] time be " in BNC.

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31 ‘ Neither worked out but now the time is right and , by the end of the decade , cable and satellite should be in half the homes in Britain .
32 The time is out of joint , she thought .
33 That Miller was known outside the gardening fraternity at the time is evidenced by the fact that his expertise was sought by Nathan Bailey for his Dictionarum Britannicum or a more Compleat Etymological English Dictionary , 1730 .
34 The clock on the wall , an irritating type with no numbers on its face , suggests that the time is just before half-past eight .
35 ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively .
36 The time is so long and the miles too .
37 In fact , the more serious your role , the more you need to unwind and let yourself go when the time is appropriate .
38 He stands listening and if the time is right , he will feel what Aurobindo called the invasion of the infinite .
39 Given the spate of recent disasters , notably in the UK the time is ripe for a major initiative in the field of emergency planning and hazard studies .
40 As with acupuncture , this is a difficult field for research , but the time is ripe for active scientific investigations .
41 The time is also right to give more responsibility to the general public where it rightly belongs ; after all , it is your body that is being affected .
42 ‘ The idea that we want to be deal-makers all the time is something I would n't subscribe to , ’ he says , then adds , ‘ but we are only just starting ’ .
43 The time is 8.00am , the gates are unlocked and the support team can leave with us .
44 Well , Paul believes the time is right to launch a new mag on the same lines .
45 People can go on communicating for hours on end , but if they are not talking about the really important issue , the time is not well spent .
46 The date is the 25th of August 1992AD , the time is 20:30 and 5 seconds , no 18 seconds , no 32 seconds , oh forget it .
47 Leadership which involves directing the meeting constantly and talking to the group for a majority of the time is unhelpful .
48 The time is not ripe for Socialists , as Socialists , to meddle with the sexual question … . ’
49 But the time is now
50 Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men .
51 The fact is that the time is never right .
52 Now , as often as not , it 's the women who are saying , ‘ Yes , we 'll have a family — when the time is right . ’
53 The time is ripe for a show-down or a major confrontation over money matters .
54 ‘ When the time is right , we 'll probably use the dress to raise money for charity . ’
55 The rest of the time is spent with his wife , British fashion designer Ellis Flyte .
56 In Fidelity 's view , the time is right for investment in bonds , as interest rates should start falling across Europe by the end of the year and inflation is low .
57 The mentality of the time is captured in the statement by Sir Alfred Mond , ICI 's first chairman , when the company set up an agricultural research station : ‘ My ideal is to see , in this as in other chemical manufactures , our great organisation controlling the production and sales of the whole chemical manufacture within the Empire . ’
58 They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there .
59 We can do this because the private universe that we inhabit for much of the time is characterised by a philosophy of personal freedom and private choice .
60 His response is to impress upon them that the time is not now , that only God knows when it will be , and in the meantime they are to concentrate on the number-one task of world-wide witness for which the Holy Spirit would equip them ( Acts 1:8 ) .
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