Example sentences of "but a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 2 | This was not a time to cut back the resources of the department which deals with the most acute form of social need , but a time to expand , provide more personnel , more finance , and more expertise . |
| 3 | The childhood objects were not only lovely in themselves , they were a link with some past and pleasantly remembered time , a time not violently shrugged off and rejected , but a time to be lived with , in happy recollection , a time which could well bear remembering . |
| 4 | Using that as a working theory , I 'd say there was some sort of time limit involved — I mean , a time during which it is imperative for people not to know that he 's dead , but a time that comes to an end , after which it does n't matter so much . " |
| 5 | The Welshman was again in a class of his own , but a time of 13.14secs was not fast enough to prevent pole vaulter Sergey Bubka landing the big prize . |