Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This should be a convenient time to undertake this review since progress on the acquisitions side would be hindered by European [ summer ] holidays . |
| 2 | Childhood should be a happy time and for many children in Britain it is . |
| 3 | For the visitor to the city each will offer very different experiences and with two new directors adding their own personalities to the space , it should be an interesting time for both . |
| 4 | Your sister will have been busy rehearsing , must be a hectic time for her . |
| 5 | It must be a long time , he thought , since Dad had travelled this far . |
| 6 | It must be a long time since they were cleaned ; they are very dirty . |
| 7 | It must be a long time since anyone — except the most die-hard old buffer — can have thought them outrageous . |
| 8 | Must be a long time ago love is n't it since we had best butter . |
| 9 | ‘ It must be a dreadful time . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | ‘ We understand that this must be an anxious time for many tenants , who may be feeling uncertain about the future , and that 's why we decided to publish our doorstep pledge as an extra reassurance . ’ |
| 12 | She wished she could think of something to say that would make him trust her , only after her stupid behaviour earlier she thought it might be a long time before he fully believed her . |
| 13 | As it seems that the ancient and archaic NDB is to remain with us for the foreseeable future , this might be a good time to take a closer look at its failings as an aid to navigation ? |
| 14 | Once you are able to make cables efficiently and know how they normally look , this might be a good time to try them out in more unusual yarns . |
| 15 | Part one featuring the first four days of the route is on page 18 and we 'll be publishing parts two and three in our August and September issues , so September might be a good time to do the whole thing — if you can wait that long . |
| 16 | Perhaps now might be a good time to do that . ’ |
| 17 | She suggests next Monday afternoon might be a good time . |
| 18 | This might be a good time to spend half an hour in the gardens , sketching shadowy clumps of trees and bushes , she decided . |
| 19 | Now might be a good time to begin . |
| 20 | Even so , the autumn might be a plausible time for the election . |
| 21 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 22 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 23 | On Microsoft 's Windows New Technology , the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 24 | McNealy-on-NT : the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 25 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 26 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 27 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 28 | This obviously is n't going to come up as an issue for quite a long time , since transcribing this 'll be a long time . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 30 | But if it 's something mechanical , like a car , erm stereo equipment , erm a home computer something like that , a washing machine , it could be a long time before a mechanical fault became apparent . |