Example sentences of "be the [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 | The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time . |
| 3 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 4 | Negative attitudes to ageing may , in part , be the result of the time lag between social change and a change in people 's attitudes . |
| 5 | A striking result of these age determinations is the correlation between the times of hot-spring activity at elevated locations on volcanoes and high lake levels within the rift during the past 200kyr ( 200,000 years ) . |
| 6 | This is the Government for the time being . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This time interval is the sum of the times given by eqn ( 9.4 ) and ( 9.5 ) . |
| 10 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 11 | It 's the rest of the time I 'm talking about . |
| 12 | It 's the crime of the times , he told himself , the ‘ Sixties Crime ’ , murder for pleasure . |
| 13 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 14 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 15 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 16 | It was the mark of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 17 | Indeed , many observers would argue that given the growth of cabinet government , the potential for government to seek and receive such powers is significantly greater now than was the case at the time when Dicey was writing . |
| 18 | On 24 July it was the turn of The Times . |
| 19 | According to the MRE , that is right and oaf is a powerful though mysterious germicide , thought to be , perhaps , a combination of ozone and olefins that was the conjecture at the time of my notes , any way . |
| 20 | Maybe it was the opposite at the time . |
| 21 | Financier and former model die in mystery explosion was the headline at the time — and the emphasis of course was on the ‘ former model ’ . |
| 22 | That was the headline in The Times of 23 June 1865 , with an account of Alice Arbuthnot 's death . |
| 23 | In Trouble , that was the euphemism of the time . |
| 24 | I myself thought that the matter was one on which no degrees of murder could be properly invented and was very loath to move the clause , but I was the Attorney-General at the time and it was my duty as Chief Law Officer to carry out the decision of the Cabinet . |
| 25 | That was when the little woman with the pencil in her hair came in and said that was the end of the time unless we wanted to extend it . |
| 26 | Now that might be wrong but i surely that was the reality of the time , that was the expectation , that was the whole idea that was coming over in terms of , of sort of propaganda and policy , whatever you want to , to call it . |
| 27 | and it was the ma , it was the custom of the times , and we we we should n't judge somebody living in another age by |
| 28 | And how big was the family at the time ? |
| 29 | ‘ Was the bulk of the time devoted to the important or the trivial agenda items ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That was the uniform of the times : the Mohawk cut , the pierced nose . |