Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 They are times when the behaviour of an animal is uncertain ; which is just the kind of time when other animals will want information about what it is going to do .
2 ‘ It 's not the sort of time that people generally call — ’
3 There is also the pressure of time , when he knows there is a long list of cases still waiting to be tried at that particular circuit .
4 As Bennett ( 1978 , 1987 ) points out , one of the most important determinants of pupils ' learning is simply the amount of time they spend in it .
5 But what chiefly concerns me here is simply the amount of time needed for what we know to have happened in the geological past if we can only postulate " normal processes " .
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