Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty . |
| 2 | Tonight was the time . |
| 3 | Rufus told himself now was no time to go hunting for libraries , he would go home first . |
| 4 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 5 | Now was the time to do it . |
| 6 | She felt very strongly that now was the time to start a new phase , when at last her life would be her own . |
| 7 | The breakthrough had been made but now was the time to confirm her arrival as a major talent . |
| 8 | Although Reagan 's knowledge of foreign affairs was non-existent , to the point where if he was not prompted he often had no idea which country he was talking about , he needed little convincing by the American intelligence agencies that now was the time for America to start waging a secret war against its enemies . |
| 9 | Now was the time for this good man to go with all speed and energy to the aid of his immune system . |
| 10 | Now was the time . |
| 11 | Now was the time . |
| 12 | Now was the time to attack the bombers , as they pulled out of their dives , snaking low over the water , slow and cumbersome . |
| 13 | Now was the time the comrades had dreaded , when they would have to move over and allow the company to be managed by the ‘ persons of experience and ability ’ as they had promised in the prospectus . |
| 14 | Now was the time to begin preparation in earnest , a pair of overalls was pressed into my hands . |
| 15 | Commenting on the letter , Bishop Kelly said that now was the time for Britain to act in support of a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | Now was the time to straighten the accounts . |
| 17 | Had someone or something decided that now was the time to be serious ? |
| 18 | Now was the time to take him . |
| 19 | And perhaps now was the time . |
| 20 | Now was the time to tell her . |
| 21 | Now was the time to say no , to deny him while the pressured timbre of his voice still echoed in her mind , threatening whatever barriers had withstood his onslaught to date . |
| 22 | Now was the time to tell him who and what she was , but she could not spoil this magic moment ; it was McAllister he loved , not Sally-Anne Tunstall , and she would not ruin her perfect afternoon . |
| 23 | He would be bald before he was fifty but I did n't think now was the time to tell him . |
| 24 | Given the blurring of the distinction between banks and building societies , it was felt that now was the time to drop those measures ( M1 and M3 ) which included bank deposits but not building society deposits . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've never met her , ’ she replied quietly , and deciding that now was the time to come clean — albeit that she would be lying in her teeth , ‘ She , Miss Pankracova , arranged an interview for — er — me , with Mr Vendelin Gajdusek for last Friday , only he — ’ |
| 26 | Oh , grief , she thought and suspected that now was the time she must get in with her interview questions . |
| 27 | They were told , now was the time to find the courage to stand up to terrorists , |
| 28 | She spoke sadly , as though to a twenty-four-year-old there really was a time of lost innocence , and I suppose , if the twenty-four-year-old was a cocaine addict , then there was indeed such a time . |
| 29 | Yet there really was a time when people seriously doubted whether Britain was governable any more ; when we appeared to be doomed to decline ; when our friends pitied us ; when envy masqueraded as economic policy . |
| 30 | There really was a time when some thought that trade union leaders were more important than the Prime Minister and the Cabinet ; when families were stopped from buying the council homes they lived in ; when we were taxed more heavily on our incomes and savings than almost anyone else in the developed world ; when many of our most important industries were run at enormous loss by the State . |