Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Perhaps now might be a good time to do that . ’ |
| 16 | She suggests next Monday afternoon might be a good time . |
| 17 | This might be a good time to spend half an hour in the gardens , sketching shadowy clumps of trees and bushes , she decided . |
| 18 | Now might be a good time to begin . |
| 19 | Even so , the autumn might be a plausible time for the election . |
| 20 | They 'll be a first time for everything ! |
| 21 | I 'm sure it is , I 've heard how good it is , so it 'll be a first time . |
| 22 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 23 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |