Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ .
2 It 's getting towards that time of year when you want to make plenty of garments and the faster the better .
3 However illogical it may seem , a void decision will become valid unless it is challenged within any time limit for challenges , by an applicant with sufficient standing , and unless a court exercises its discretion to award a remedy to the applicant .
4 Thereafter , it is added to each time a QAO log entry is actioned .
5 The original trophy that went with the first prize disappeared — it is thought at some time during the eighteenth century — and there was never enough money to replace it .
6 It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher .
7 It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc .
8 And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building .
9 He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage .
10 It was noted at that time that there were low level information technology utilisation in the departments , consequently the cost of implementation would be a major factor when considering the design of either system .
11 Despite later Communist acceptance of this policy it was rejected at this time by William Rust for the Party .
12 It was forbidden at that time to bring wildlife to school .
13 It does not matter , she had thought , numbly , for whatever it was and whatever it has been , it was forbidden for all time .
14 There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book .
15 It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases .
16 He considers that the nineteenth century cases of Camplin , Flattery and Williams accomplished no more than to include within rape sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman or one deceived by a specific type of fraud and that the 1976 Act merely declares the law as it was established at that time .
17 By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed .
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