Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 2 | The time then taken to reach the track will be the approximate time to the station from the interception point . |
| 3 | An example can be seen at the Didcot Railway Centre With the fine locomotives designed by Daniel Gooch , the GWR 's broad gauge trains formed the first real expresses and indeed the inaugural train from London to Bristol led to the comment that this must be the only time on record that an engineer had exceeded his promises ! |
| 4 | This may be the wrong time for the party to avert its gaze . |
| 5 | If I had n't chucked away the rulebook shortly after Johannes Gutenburg invented printing , this would be the proper time for me to rise and shine . |
| 6 | The match will take place from July 1–5 , believed to be the ideal time for sport on the River Shannon , which has produced ton-up bream hauls in past festivals . |
| 7 | ‘ June or July would be the ideal time for first-time buyers to exchange contracts . ’ |
| 8 | September would be the ideal time for erm , you know , to be starting down |
| 9 | With 120 furnaces and its own wharf on the Tees , the Britannia site no doubt looked impressive , but the 1870s were the wrong time for businesses to try to expand . |
| 10 | The rod-bending bites are merely the start of a run , and it is this first powerful run , which began as soon as the barbel picked up the baited hook and gained momentum within seconds , that is the crucial time for losing fish . |
| 11 | This is antipodal to the empirically visible history in which the time of all histories is the simple time of continuity and in which the ‘ content ’ is the vacuity of events that occur in it which one later tries to determine with dividing procedures in order to ‘ periodise ’ that continuity . |
| 12 | The same principles as discussed above apply in relation to when is the optimum time for lodging such a Tender . |
| 13 | The shortest path through a network is the minimum time in which the whole process represented could be completed . |
| 14 | Knowing when the goat is on heat is crucial , as this is the only time during which successful mating can take place . |
| 15 | Sunday lunch has a suitable sense of occasion about it and for many people it is the only time of the week when they can relax and enjoy a leisurely get-together with family or friends . |
| 16 | The shower is the only time in any twenty-four-hour period I take my underpants right off . |
| 17 | With its spectacular sunrises , fresh mountain air and inspiring tranquillity , early morning is the perfect time of day to explore all the outdoor pursuits that abound in Royal Deeside … |
| 18 | but if you think about it , if you 've done a good job , you 've done a good presentation , done a good fact find and they buy , then they should be very happy at that moment in time and er it was stupid because that is the right time to actually ask |
| 19 | Now is the right time for something even bigger to happen , and we 're looking to broaden the whole idea of workwear into a promotion of quality , utility clothing : the slogan at PIL is going to be Function as Fashion . ’ |
| 20 | Singer Canice Kenealy says : ‘ Now is the right time for us to move to London . |
| 21 | ‘ It is the right time in IBM 's business transformation to identify new leadership , ’ Akers said . |
| 22 | QATIMOUTPERIOD is the elapsed time for which the process will attempt to complete a QA activity ( ie. prepare QA Listings , or Approve Package ) . |
| 23 | It is the elapsed time after which a request to Offline a Package will be cancelled if not completed . |
| 24 | LADY JONES : But pray , sir , when is the happy time to be ? |
| 25 | So now is the ideal time for growers who suspect they may have herbicide-resistant strains of the weed to get them checked , says ADAS 's James Clarke . |
| 26 | When he 's not gee-ing up audiences , he says getting home to the Robbins residence near Rossendale Valley in Lancashire is the ideal time for this warm up man to cool off . |
| 27 | Perhaps , Isabel decided , it is the wrong time of the year and I must wait until July or August , when they arrive as tourists . |
| 28 | Taking the negative sign for travel inward and then integrating gives where is the proper time at which the probe reaches the centre ( r = 0 ) . |
| 29 | BELVILLE : Now , Pamela , is the dreadful time of reckoning come that I have threatened . |
| 30 | Again late August or early September is the likely time for these beautiful woodland birds to appear . |