Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | But senior dental officer Sue Fuller said : ‘ There could not be a worse time than bedtime or before a day time nap to give sugar-loaded drinks like these . |
2 | But senior dental officer Sue Fuller said : ‘ There could not be a worse time than bedtime to give sugar-loaded drinks like these . |
3 | I mean this might not be a good time to chat about it . |
4 | Zambia knew there would not be a next time . |
5 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
6 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
7 | This will not be the first time it has been tried , and the observations of one former planning official are worth quoting at length : |
8 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
9 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
10 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
11 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
12 | The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title . |
13 | It is a fair bet that the Panama episode will not be the last time that the US will intervene militarily in the region , given the pattern of repeated American meddling in its ‘ backyard ’ . |
14 | And tonight is the first time the two girls have ever gone past the ground floor . |
15 | For instance the Johnson Collection has always been a separate time line on the first floor . |
16 | There could hardly be a better time to move into insurance auditing . |
17 | For most of us the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the hardest challenges in a sport where yesterday was a long time ago . |
18 | Mr Deng has repeatedly promised to retire in recent years , but yesterday was the first time he had reissued the pledge since the Tiananmen Square massacre and a shake-up of the party leadership . |
19 | This could also be a good time to look at your yard layout . |
20 | But it must also be a good time to invest in Europe , possibly through the Morgan Grenfell European Growth fund . |
21 | It would also be an appropriate time to institute similar legislation to that of the US government in order to keep company profits stable , thereby maintaining research levels , and at the same time ensure that people may benefit from drugs that would otherwise not be available because they were not profitable to produce . |
22 | Although it will probably be a long time before we are prepared to let robots perform operations on us , Pam will be ready for trials next year , and her potential for cutting the 750,000 nursing days lost each year through back strain may make her popular with medical staff and patients alike . |
23 | But I know it is sad that all our clubs are out of Europe now and it will probably be a long time before we can hope to dominate abroad as we once did . |
24 | ‘ It would probably be a good time to go now before it gets too crowded . ’ |
25 | But clearly being a spare time hairy was proving too difficult for the NME of the early '70s . |
26 | This is a political question and now is a good time to start pushing the Government . ’ |
27 | Now is a good time to buy as our Country Car feature explains . |
28 | ‘ Now is a good time to buy . |
29 | So , now is a good time to try out the zoom controls while watching the effect in the viewfinder . |
30 | If so , now is a good time to remove the safety-tab from the cassette to avoid the risk of accidental erasure . |