Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a perfect world the course should have lasted not one year but three — but there were neither the time or resources ; nor can one train trainers as well as one would like in a field where there are as yet no models to emulate and no specific literature . |
| 2 | Edible things tended to crumble when packaged and someone was going to have to remember where they all were when the time came to unpack them . |
| 3 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 4 | ‘ Something like that , ’ Now was not the time to suggest to this woman that her husband had been a blackmailer as well as a thief . |
| 5 | He would have liked to have driven his dagger straight into the interfering clerk 's throat but knew this was not the time nor the occasion . |
| 6 | But it was not the time for lingering or relaxation . |
| 7 | But now was not the time to rock the boat . |
| 8 | Now was not the time for reminiscing . |
| 9 | Now was not the time to tell him how she had tried to phone her mother , had dialled the number and her father answered . |
| 10 | Unfortunately this was not the time for it . |
| 11 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 12 | Now was not the time for emotion , but for logic . |
| 13 | Adam realized this was not the time to bring it out in the open . |
| 14 | He did n't speak for nearly a minute ; the DDA sat quietly , knowing this was not the time to interrupt his thoughts . |
| 15 | There were , thought Dalgliesh , other possibilities , but now was not the time to discuss them . |
| 16 | Huy wanted to ask more about the policeman , but decided that now was not the time . |
| 17 | Now was not the time to preach . |
| 18 | It was not the time to talk . |
| 19 | She knew how Felipe felt about Ana 's future but this was not the time to point it out . |
| 20 | This was not the time to antagonise him , not if she wanted to get home soon and in one piece . |
| 21 | This was not the time to object to his tone . |
| 22 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 23 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 24 | But now was not the time to tell him . |
| 25 | But now was not the time to worry about it . |
| 26 | This was not the time for prayer . |
| 27 | As the rate of interest fell , so there would be a contraction of the money supply ( a movement down along the Ms curve ) and an increase in the demand for money balances especially speculative balances , since people would increasingly judge with lower interest rates that now was not the time to buy securities ( there is a movement down along the liquidity preference curve ) . |
| 28 | This was not the time to argue with him . |
| 29 | It was on the tip of her tongue to answer this blow below the belt with a savage ‘ ditto ! ’ but there was not the time , nor did she have the inclination to resurrect the past right now . |
| 30 | Whatever had happened in the past , this was not the time to be aloof , Ashley thought , as she allowed him to lead her away . |