Example sentences of "[adj] be the [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the best time of the year for seeking out the Great Bear , though from most of Australia and South Africa it is always very low , and from Sydney or the Cape only part of it rises . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the best time of the day , ’ she said , taking a mouthful of ale . |
| 3 | Besides , this is the best time for fishing , when it 's cooler — it makes them sluggish — ’ |
| 4 | This is the one time of year when I wish I did n't live in the depths of Devon , as my nearest indoor school is 1¾ hours away , and Ferdi Eilberg my dressage trainer lives 3½ miles away ! |
| 5 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 7 | This is the first time since its formation in 1935 that the association has organised a trespass as part of its campaign . |
| 8 | This is the first time since 1969 that we 've had them on site . |
| 9 | The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre . |
| 10 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 11 | Nelson , dismissed for complaining about a tackle by Derek Mountfield , said : ‘ I 've played more than 550 games and this is the first time in my career I 've been sent off . |
| 12 | Commentator Tom Tyrell said : ‘ This is the first time in 22 years that this station has been shut out in this way . |
| 13 | This is the first time in my working life I have to go to the family to ask them for money . |
| 14 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 15 | This is the first time in which such a virus has been found in amphibians . |
| 16 | This is the first time in Britain … possibly in Europe that this legislation has been used for enforcement in this way |
| 17 | ‘ This is the first time in the history of higher education in Scotland that any lecturer has been threatened with compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 18 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 19 | This is the second time in less than two weeks that the Government have failed to respond to the Prime Minister 's so-called commitment to women 's equality . |
| 20 | This is the second time in the last 2 weeks that Julian Cleave has surveyed the aftermath of an arson attack . |
| 21 | This is the second time in a fortnight the Chancellor has broken with the convention that he does not comment on interest-rate movements . |
| 22 | This is the second time in two years that Strathclyde has threatened to halt work on the Ayr Road Route . |
| 23 | Knowing when the goat is on heat is crucial , as this is the only time during which successful mating can take place . |
| 24 | This is the worst time of day for the solitary traveller , when the lights begin to mellow , and life slows down , and the evening looms ahead . |
| 25 | He claims this was the best time of his life . |
| 26 | He claims this was the best time of his life . |
| 27 | At the end of the story significantly called Youth , a story in which Conrad calls on his own memory of the testing of ardent feelings in critical conditions in describing the last fatal , curtailed voyage of the old Judea , Marlow as narrator , sitting in comfortable middle age among men who , like him , had served an apprenticeship at sea , challenges them to deny that this was the best time of their lives : |
| 28 | Owen had the impression that this was the first time for her , as it certainly was n't for the other two . |
| 29 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 30 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |