Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( Weeping ) There is a proper time and place to tell children . |
| 32 | There is a natural time scale to the experiment , charging the cells , inducing the phenomenon for hundreds of hours and monitoring at different currents ; you can not hurry science . |
| 33 | There is a statutory time limit of six years for claims under contracts under hand , and twelve if the contract is under seal : Limitation Act 1980 ss5 and 8 . |
| 34 | Erm because he would like to make a comment on the exceptions policy , he has n't been invited to participate tomorrow , er I have exercised some latitude and said yes I will be happy to hear what he has to say , erm there is a prescribed time limit of which he is aware . |
| 35 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 36 | There was a long time — several lifetimes — when the only sound was the clatter of the rain against the window , then Vitor walked to the cot . |
| 37 | Well if ever there was a right time it was now . |
| 38 | Yes the best if there was a dry time a dry stack , they kept that very best but for the calf beds , both for the bothy and the house . |
| 39 | Having settled the matter , Charity became quite friendly and urged Clarissa kindly to cheer up and not look so gloomy because there was a good time coming . |
| 40 | Tony and Odd-Knut stopped work too , and there was a silent time , broken only by Tony 's mad rush to find his camera and tripod . |
| 41 | In that town there was a different time , |
| 42 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 43 | Do you know if there was a special time that they did this at ? |
| 44 | No there was a full time education I put that Supposed to pay for them . |
| 45 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 46 | And old man Heinz of Heinz fifty seven varieties , they were a big time , and gave her a little silver pickle with Heinz on it . |
| 47 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 48 | Yeah , but you do it , it were a good time though . |
| 49 | They 've got to be moved and I it 's , it 's , it 's a tremendous time |
| 50 | But it 's a low time is n't it ? |
| 51 | It 's a dangerous time . |
| 52 | It 's a critical time to be abandoning the plot . |
| 53 | It 's a strange time to rejoin the Tories . |
| 54 | It 's a good time . |
| 55 | As you prepare to give your patch of grass its final once-over , it 's a good time to make sure you are n't going to be a tragic statistic next year . |
| 56 | Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's . |
| 57 | It 's a good time to give all the windows a proper service . |
| 58 | It 's a good time for sightseeing in a city that , as well as the famous St Sophia 's Church and the Blue Mosque , is rich with remnants of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires . |
| 59 | It 's a good time of year for Arizona . ’ |
| 60 | Before I am going to talk about er urodynamic evaluation of patients with symptoms of outflow obstruction , I think it 's a good time to be talking about this when , particularly in North America , we 're being encouraged to move towards a questionnaire or score in order to select patients for treatment , whether that treatment be surgical treatment or , or other treatment . |