Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true , as Annie had said , that now was hardly the time to talk about dances , drugs and Jack Butler but it was important for Kelly to talk to her . |
| 2 | Grierson , in fact , lived a singularly carefree and untroubled existence but Talbot thought it was hardly the time to point this out to him . |
| 3 | This was also the time to lay ‘ haws , hips and holly berries in a trench ’ for a year , while November and February were the best months for transplanting . |
| 4 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 5 | But there was never the time to put the theory to the test . |