Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 2 | There would be time to work out the exact nature of its functioning later . |
| 3 | Once you have rented or bought your home , and you have fixed a date for your occupation it is time to sort out the essential services — gas , electricity , water , telephone . |
| 4 | Now and then there was lightning to point out the black holes , the crumbling trenches , the boulders scattered in their way like the droppings of some vast , vile dragon . |
| 5 | After several hours of interment and long and complicated ritual preparations , a series of oracular tests was performed to discover whether it was time to open up the ritual grave and recover the cured patient . |
| 6 | Then the KGB decided it was time to roll up the whole operation . ’ |