Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 120 furnaces and its own wharf on the Tees , the Britannia site no doubt looked impressive , but the 1870s were the wrong time for businesses to try to expand . |
| 2 | Whitsuntide was the traditional time for wearing new clothes and the little girls were all smart in their prettiest dresses , mostly white , with ribbons and flowers in their hair . |
| 3 | I could n't work in those circumstances , so I decided this was the right time if I really wanted to do something with my solo career , just break loose completely . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |
| 5 | He repeated , together with the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Mrs Mairhi Trickett , that seven o'clock in the morning was the right time to take the children , as it was a time when families would all be together . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the right time to get married . |
| 7 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 8 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 9 | ‘ That was the right time . |
| 10 | In the Western calendar a new decade had just begun — it was the right time for a new beginning ! |
| 11 | Oh the teachers were very good , they usually greeted you with a big plum or something , if it was the right time of the year , which it usually was . |
| 12 | Perhaps now was the right time to ask Rohmer just what the hell he really was , just what the hell was really going on … ? |
| 13 | It was the right time as she came around to the front of the house . |
| 14 | He was pleased that this was the right time . |
| 15 | Catherine agreed that now was the right time to go there . |
| 16 | He seemed to have decided that now was the right time to clean the Great Hall floor and was poking the mop head in among the boys ’ legs , muttering to himself . |
| 17 | A week ago , sterling joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ; it lifted the gloom for the Tory Party Conference in Bournemouth , and this afternoon , the Chancellor , John Major , came to explain why now was the right time for Britain to join . |
| 18 | This was the ritualistic time for the slaying of a leader , as Julius Caesar found out to his peril . |
| 19 | From this primitive idea sprang the belief that it was important to celebrate Easter at the correct date , since this was the crucial time of combat between God ( or Christ ) and the Devil , and God required the support of his worshippers to defeat the Devil . |
| 20 | And B what was the average time speed of the train ? |
| 21 | It was the only time I can ever remember seeing him with tears in his eyes . |
| 22 | Unfortunately for the historian , it was the only time in his life when he kept a diary . |
| 23 | It was the only time when he was intimate with his hero Temple . |
| 24 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 25 | Then the pastry for the tarte , again all mixed by hand , would not lift off the board — which was the only time Eric had to come to the rescue . |
| 26 | Playing squash was the only time Penny wore a bra — without it , as she said , her boozums would bounce from wall to wall faster than the ball . |
| 27 | It was the only time she had seen her old friend in tears . |
| 28 | This was the only time she allowed herself away from the business of the shop or the house above it . |
| 29 | It was the only time I was ever frightened on any of the Rambles . |
| 30 | This was the only time that I can remember such a fatality occurring locally during my lifetime . |