Example sentences of "[pron] be [not/n't] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its view , there is not the time , the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense . |
| 2 | There is n't the time . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 5 | ‘ It could have been major much earlier — I had the know-how and had already done the groundwork — but when I was racing there was n't the time , nor did I have the surplus energy to allow the business its head . |
| 6 | It 's not the time to argue about the small print of your contract . |
| 7 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 8 | Yes , yes but , but it 's not the time |
| 9 | He added : ‘ Politically it is not the time to talk about re-unification . |
| 10 | So , even amid the fading glow of the MCG 's floodlights , and the successful reintroduction of South Africa , it is not the time to sit still and just ponder the future . |
| 11 | ‘ It is not the time for vaulting that five-bar gate , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Editor , — With regard to academic medicine , surely it is not the time spent in research that is important but that the desired aim of awakening in the young doctor an appreciation of what science has to offer is achieved . |
| 13 | But it was n't the time for secrets , or the place . |
| 14 | It was n't the time to be playing silly games . |
| 15 | It was n't the time for normal feelings , such as embarrassment . |
| 16 | It was n't the time to remind her mother that she was forty . |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't the time , ’ his wife said . |
| 18 | But it was not the time for lingering or relaxation . |
| 19 | It was not the time to talk . |