Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a [adj] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a good time for sightseeing in a city that , as well as the famous St Sophia 's Church and the Blue Mosque , is rich with remnants of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires . |
| 2 | It 's a good time for thinking things over . ’ |
| 3 | One day a week we provide only rescue cover , this only for experienced sailors ; this gives us time to keep both boards and staff in good condition , and it 's a good time for you to explore . |
| 4 | At the end of my little phone session , I 've one last in the bag , hi Mick , Peter , as I said I 'd give you a bell in January , do you think it 's a good time for us to get together now , yes , Oh great , O K , I 've got . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a worrying time for me . |
| 8 | Whilst this is an excellent weekend for lighthearted gatherings and sociable soirees it 's a tough time for taking orders or giving way to the superior power or authority of others . |
| 9 | It 's a bad time for a change at the top . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a bad time for the doorbell to go , but that 's what happens . |
| 11 | Get all your business done Saturday for it 's a fine time for long distance communications and clinching all sorts of commercial arrangements and workaday agreements . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a good time for sterling-based investors to buy a holding in a managed currency fund , ’ says currency manager Philip Saunders of Guinness Mahon . |
| 13 | It is a testing time for Stockton . |
| 14 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 15 | Although some airlines , like British Airways , have been keen to invest in an American carrier , it is a difficult time for any airline to go shopping . |
| 16 | It was a traumatic time for me . |
| 17 | It was a traumatic time for all concerned . |
| 18 | It was a good time for building up the faculty . |
| 19 | Needless to say , it was a worrying time for the Roubanova family . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a great time for paperbacks . |
| 21 | It was a sad time for English cricket ; sadder still was the tact that , apart from one series , things would simply continue to get ever worse . |
| 22 | It was a perfect time for the launch of Black Dwarf , but there too there were problems . |
| 23 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 24 | It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates . |
| 25 | In the main it was a fun time for us girls . |
| 26 | But it was erm it was a happy time for in many respects you know . |
| 27 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 28 | It was a bad time for Charlie 's Indians : the White House cavalry was charging through the reservation every second day . |
| 29 | It was a depressing time for both of them , not helped for Charles by the failure of all his schemes somehow to circumvent the CO 's ban on volunteering , together with his unwilling commitment of providing entertainment . |
| 30 | She says : ‘ As you can imagine it was a busy time for us . |