Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you wish to print any of my sons compositions , this intervening period would be the best time to order them . |
| 2 | When I was at college , I used to think , ‘ This must be the best time of life . ’ |
| 3 | With three of the family married , grandchildren coming along , the youngest still at home and the others visiting frequently , I used to think , This really must be the best time . |
| 4 | The afternoon may be the best time , as the patients are resting and having visitors . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , this might be the best time to eat the remaining portion . |
| 6 | ‘ There are bound to be price increases next year so now has to be the best time to buy . ’ |
| 7 | He said : ‘ This may be the best time to buy . ’ |
| 8 | That would be the best time to refinance with a fixed-rate mortgage and lock oneself into the German virtuous circle of medium-paced growth , low inflation and minimal home loan costs . |
| 9 | This might be the best time to get that extra reading done ; to work on a project report ; to earn spare cash ; or to attend to non-urgent domestic responsibilities . |
| 10 | However , on timing it was suggested that September/October would be the best time to build the pressure , with the expectation of an autumn budget statement at the end of November . |
| 11 | When he went to bed , that would be the best time . |
| 12 | So when would be the best time for me to come back and present these ideas to you ? |
| 13 | The clear view gives an impression of speed and excitement at what could be the fastest time ever achieved for a human powered vehicle . |
| 14 | And , for all sorts of reasons , Hillsborough today would be the perfect time to hit number ten . |
| 15 | nearer , nearer to Christmas because Christmas Eve would actually be the perfect time to do for children |
| 16 | The time then taken to reach the track will be the approximate time to the station from the interception point . |
| 17 | This would be the second time Mike 's mother had looked after Catherine . |
| 18 | If Mr Nitschke is right about the hotel being the last of its type in London , it will be the second time around for the property . |
| 19 | " I thought now was supposed to be the marvellous time , and we 're all meant to be living it up , burning the candle at both ends , finding out what we want to do with our lives . " |
| 20 | I mean , you 'd think it would be the one time she would — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Would n't be the first time your husband 's come back when you did n't expect him , would it ? ’ |
| 22 | This will be the first time that an introduction to the range of MEDIA initiatives will have taken place in the city . |
| 23 | That means it will be the first time abortion has been debated as part of government legislation , rather than on the basis of a private member 's Bill . |
| 24 | This will be the first time that the chief of the US central bank , effectively head-keeper of the capitalist conscience , has visited the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | The moves to stem wildcat stoppages , condemned by unions and the Labour Party and the independent Industrial Society — are thought to be the first time ministers have sought to legislate against the individual . |
| 26 | It will be the first time Michelozzo has tackled 1 ¼ miles , but he did win over a distance of 1 mile and 50 yards at Nottingham in April . |
| 27 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 28 | It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site . |
| 29 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 30 | If these fears prove justified , it wo n't be the first time Asian families would be forced through deliberate government policies to live in terrifying isolation . |