Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been the situation at the time of Domesday Book and it may be that a nucleated village was not established until late Saxon times or the twelfth century . |
| 2 | Mr Begg later claimed that there had been no protest at the time . |
| 3 | Where was all the self-assurance , the sophisticated enlightenment of the classical world , of which Egypt had been a part since the time of Alexander ? |
| 4 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 5 | Beyond was a bank , farther still some houses , ribbed with black beams , whitewashed , crooked and ancient , and then the Black Lion , and shops , the heterogeneous collection of buildings which composed a town which had been a hamlet in the time of the Tudors , a flourishing and prosperous market town in the eighteenth century , and was now , in the twentieth , settling comfortably into another phase of its existence , off the main traffic route , a backwater serving the big houses around , a dormitory for the more successful managers and executives in the prosperous light-manufacturing town of Bridgeborough some thirty miles away . |
| 6 | And not only that , there are four runners up prizes as well to be won , and these are a copy of the Time Form 's ‘ Horses to Follow ’ . |
| 7 | Under Gift Aid there are no formalities at the time of the gift , just a cheque or cash gift to the charity . |
| 8 | The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time . |
| 9 | Negative attitudes to ageing may , in part , be the result of the time lag between social change and a change in people 's attitudes . |
| 10 | This rule seems to be a hangover from the time when the only remedies available under Ord. 53 were the prerogative orders : these are not available against contractual bodies , but there seems no good reason of policy or principle why a declaration or injunction should not be sought against such a body under Ord. 53 . |
| 11 | Before I had the children , I was pretty certain I would be a head by the time I was 40 . |
| 12 | It was n't easy for him , having to accept that God permitted chance , any more than it was easy for him to be a clergyman in a time when clergymen seemed superfluous . |
| 13 | You work on it , and it 'll be a showpiece in no time . " |
| 14 | I 'll be a millionaire by the time I 'm twenty-five . |
| 15 | There should also be a limitation on the time during which the landlord can require the tenant to procure a new guarantor and the following amendment is suggested : … and if so required by the Landlord by notice to the Tenant given within 28 days of receipt of the Tenant 's notice at the expense of the Tenant within 56 days to procure some other person reasonably acceptable to the Landlord such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed … 5.24 Landlord 's rights To permit the Landlord at all times during the Term to exercise without interruption or interference any of the rights granted to [ it ] by virtue of the provisions of this Lease The point here is to ensure that the landlord 's rights contained in the lease are not such as to cause unreasonable interference with the business being carried on at the premises . |
| 16 | Such phrases were a fashion of the time and sufficiently vague to be meaningless as a guide on any serious policy matter . |
| 17 | In 1929 the work of a cub reporter on a small town daily newspaper occupied his time from early morning until often late at night , seven days a week — in other words whenever something newsworthy was happening it had to be covered , and there were no limits to the time spent or the hours required to adequately cover any given assignment . |
| 18 | Being an undergraduate at the time , my son naturally never considered actually residing in the house . |
| 19 | This is the Government for the time being . |
| 20 | From a refereeing point of view , when the maul becomes stationary the time allowed for the ball to emerge is the equivalent of the time currently allowed for the emergence of the ball from a collapsed maul . |
| 21 | What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years . |
| 22 | It 's the rest of the time I 'm talking about . |
| 23 | It 's a celebration of a time in the 30 's when to forget the depression , you put on your taps to go into your dance . |
| 24 | Besides which it 's a heck of a time for Noorda to be discussing succession — when so much of what can be accomplished with Unix seems to depend on his personal touch . |
| 25 | However , its founders , Larry and Doug Michels , are now said to be reluctant because the future is uncertain — it 's a heck of a time to have to start posting quarterly reports . |
| 26 | It 's a heck of a time is n't it to let |
| 27 | Have actually already covered them another time and I do n't want to get deeper in the stealth now than that , there 's a limit on the time now available this morning . |
| 28 | In Euclidean space-time there is no difference between the time direction and directions in space . |
| 29 | 3.3 Time restrictions If there is no mention of a time restriction in a covenant then the courts will normally infer that it is intended that the restriction should last forever . |
| 30 | The ‘ blood of the covenant ’ is a reference to the time of Moses . |