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 .
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