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 | With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) . |
| 3 | My mother told my father and I think that must have been the worst time of my life . |
| 4 | Yes , that had been the happiest time of her life . |
| 5 | There 's this piece of contemporary mythology that the forties are the best time of your life . |
| 6 | Weekends are the busiest time for the Horse Rangers . |
| 7 | Well we were talking about timing for people , you 're the same time in your car as you are in |
| 8 | So when would be the best time for me to come back and present these ideas to you ? |
| 9 | When I was at college , I used to think , ‘ This must be the best time of life . ’ |
| 10 | The time then taken to reach the track will be the approximate time to the station from the interception point . |
| 11 | When John Smith takes over , it will be the first time for 12 years that the right wing has openly held Labour 's leadership . |
| 12 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 13 | This was thought to be the first time for nearly 70 years that police had fired on a white crowd in South Africa . |
| 14 | Indeed , if Portsmouth and Sunderland were to defy the odds and emerge victorious from today 's matches against Liverpool and Norwich , it would be the first time in the 120-year history of the tournament that two teams from the Second Division contested the final . |
| 15 | It will be the first time in 15 years that an England tour party has not included one of the celebrated trio , who between them have appeared in 298 Test matches . |
| 16 | This was to be the first time in history that aircraft were used for ground attack , as an integral part of an operation carried out by ground and air forces . |
| 17 | May was saying , ‘ This will be the first time in years that Lucy and Jim and the bairns have n't spent New Year 's Eve with us . |
| 18 | ( 61 ) That may be the first time in my life that a man has dared insult me . |
| 19 | If both Graf and Agassi were to succumb to their injuries , it would be the first time in the Open era that both reigning singles champions have not returned to defend their titles . |
| 20 | It will be the first time in more than two years that the ANC leader has shared a platform with Chief Buthelezi . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | I want to be alone with you — it will be the last time for several days . ’ |
| 23 | must be the quietest time of day for us . |
| 24 | This may be the wrong time for the party to avert its gaze . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 27 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ June or July would be the ideal time for first-time buyers to exchange contracts . ’ |
| 30 | September would be the ideal time for erm , you know , to be starting down |