Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A time of historic change is no time for recklessness . |
| 2 | This evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 3 | This evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 4 | Constructing terminal tackle of this nature is a time consuming occupation although there are a few that try to cut corners to maximise profits . |
| 5 | Like other major times of life , old age is a time when you have to learn how to deal with a changing lifestyle without losing your dignity . |
| 6 | The Trias in this country was a time of desert conditions so that the forms exhumed from beneath its rocks will have to be compared with modern desert landforms . |
| 7 | The Victorian era was a time of zoological awakening , unquestionably dominated by Charles Darwin . |
| 8 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 9 | The early autumn is the time to be in the Basque country , because it is usually drier then than in the summer , but still blessedly warm , and wonderfully ‘ luminous ’ as the French like to put it . |
| 10 | Infancy and early childhood are the time of basic sexual development ; pre-puberty — despite the " latency " concept — is the phase of accommodation to social thinking and relationships , and of first establishment of gender identity ; adolescence itself is marked by an upsurge of sexual feeling , establishment of sexual identity and — perhaps to an increasing extent — first true sexual experience . |
| 11 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |
| 12 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 13 | The major problem with top-down parsing is the time wasted in expanding rules that can not possibly be satisfied by the input . |
| 14 | But the major obstacle to wider use of computers for textual processing is the time taken to input data . |
| 15 | Finally the settling time is the time taken for oscillation to decay so that the system is within 5% of the target . |
| 16 | The excepted proceedings , which are specified , are actions in defamation , relator actions , certain proceedings for the recovery of a penalty , election petitions , actions relating to judgment summons in the county court , actions in the county court where the only question is the time and mode of payment of a debt , and any incidental proceedings . |
| 17 | Ann Ab Return ; annual abnormal return ( per cent ) , this is calculated in the same way as the last measurement , the only difference being the time period under consideration . |
| 18 | For our purposes the essential distinction is the time when the documents were written and so we will use the terms ‘ contemporary ’ and ‘ retrospective ’ to describe those documents . |
| 19 | The only criticism is the time taken to put the financial package together before work could begin . |
| 20 | That summer was a time of waiting for Sara , and a time when she saw her home , her family and her native Ireland with new eyes . |
| 21 | In the former case When m = 0 , all integrals on the right-hand side except the first are zero and therefore This result just confirms , of course , that the steady component is the time average of the signal . |
| 22 | ‘ That damaged keg 's a time bomb . |
| 23 | ( The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time it takes for half of the radioactivity to disappear as the isotope decays ) . |
| 24 | The horizontal axis is a time base and the vertical axis displays positive and negative cash flow . |
| 25 | The horizontal axis is a time base and the vertical axis displays positive and negative cash flow . |
| 26 | The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time interval taken for the radiant species present to lose half its radioactivity . |
| 27 | ‘ practically , to each particular person , the time of his own death is the time of the Lord 's coming . ’ |
| 28 | The second half of the nineteenth century was a time of religious revival and controversy , especially in the Low Country . |
| 29 | According to Thompson the early nineteenth century was the time of : |
| 30 | But the late nineteenth century was the time that general health insurance was introduced in countries like Germany . |