Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it will probably be around the time of the Full Moon on the 14th that you decide enough is enough and when you realise that success , solace or excitement can only be found in a different setting . |
| 2 | Well , it 's only the time of the month . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , it 's just the time of the month . ’ |
| 4 | This is usually the time of year she asks for my subscription to the Church of England Orphans and I wonder if she has forgotten me . |
| 5 | One advantage of wind power is that it would tend to generate best when weather is bad which is also the time of peak need for electricity in many countries . |
| 6 | According to Visser ( 1966 : 669 ) , it is around the time of the passage from Old to Middle English that one witnesses the beginning of this " shrinkage " of the non-past , which loses more and more ground to the constructions with will and shall . |
| 7 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 8 | Snizort thought that this was probably the time of day that the Beastline enjoyed best ; supping at the long oak table , making plans to regain Tara , drinking spiced wine or mead . |
| 9 | The whole story is complicated by the fact that this was also the time of break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea . |
| 10 | That point in time was also the time of the appropriation . |
| 11 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 12 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 13 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 14 | The last time I was going out seriously was around the time of Shoom , which was very exciting . |
| 15 | It was around the time of ‘ Strange Town ’ and he was starting to think that punk rock had had it and he was getting very emotional . |
| 16 | It was around the time of Eric Verrico 's disappearance that the three Bernard brothers — Bruce , Oliver and Jeffrey — came into Minton 's life . |