Example sentences of "[is] not the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could paraphrase it to read : ‘ Mother , ca n't you see that this is not the time for my mission and nature to be revealed ? ’ |
| 2 | This is not the time for hasty decisions , ’ he said . |
| 3 | SIR — I agree with Louise Denny ( letter , April 6 ) that this is not the time for composers and other music copyright holders to be spineless . |
| 4 | ‘ It is not the time for vaulting that five-bar gate , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Now is not the time for a fixed-rate mortgage |
| 6 | Now is not the time for a faint heart ! ’ |
| 7 | In a televised speech on May 1 , Zia appealed for national unity , saying that " there may be differences of opinion in a democracy … [ but ] this is not the time for differences " . |
| 8 | ‘ For God 's sake , Laura — this is not the time for conversation ! ’ |
| 9 | Tory smallholdings spokesman Coun Michael Hedley said : ‘ We agree the county council should keep the future of the estate under consideration but now is not the time for change . ’ |
| 10 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 11 | The whole unit had to be dismantled to allow a new base to be fitted — a costly and time-consuming disaster , which taught me that 11pm on Saturday , at the end of a tiring day , is not the time to be doing d-i-y ! |
| 12 | With the current interest in fetal nutrition and its influence on health in later life , now is not the time to be turning our backs on this important issue . |
| 13 | This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz … or to make love to me , although heaven knows I 'd like you to . |
| 14 | ‘ Darling Ruth , if you do n't know how I feel about you now , you never will , but now is n't the time for us to make rash statements as we did in Seville . |
| 15 | But with United still bottom of the Second Division and staring relegation in the face , the editor of the club 's fanzine says this is n't the time to be selling star players . |