Example sentences of "it [be] an [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos what I , I just said to him I said look , I says a er sometimes I says it 's an awkward time drop for us . |
| 2 | Well it 's an awkward time to ask people to go and fetch them when they 're if they 're preparing dinner is n't it ? |
| 3 | Well I think the short answer to that , Brian , is yes we do , but it 's an interesting time at which to ask that question because there have been recently some changes in the erm statutory provision for the education of what was previously called handicapped children . |
| 4 | for year seven , eight parents it is coming , if you like , that at the end of year nine it 's the end of the key stage and it 's an important time de dun da , they 're warned for two successive years . |
| 5 | It 's an excellent time for walking and rambling . |
| 6 | It is an exciting time for Douglas Reyburn which is undergoing a period of change that is the most significant in its sixty year history . |
| 7 | The young will not be pampered so for much longer but meanwhile , for the bird watcher , it is an entertaining time . |
| 8 | It is an exceptional time and situation ; therefore extraordinary measures are demanded . |
| 9 | It was an appalling time of tyranny and religious persecution in which all classes of Scottish society , but mostly the ministers and farmers , and mainly in Ayrshire and Galloway , took the lead in resisting the final efforts of the Monarchy to install Episcopacy , many paying with their lives for adherence to their faith . |
| 10 | Now that he 's settled in and understanding the language a bit better , I thought it was an appropriate time to congratulate and welcome him to Carnoustie . |
| 11 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 12 | no time but er it was an odd time because it was er , an extra week |
| 13 | It was an apt time for the old dilemma of trying to forget where you were ( while being excited by the position ) and trying not to think about the uncertainties of the morrow ( while looking forward to them ) . |
| 14 | It was an exciting time , in retrospect a brief golden age between the end of colonial rule and the point when the repressiveness of the Kanu regime grew so blatant that disillusion , new East African writer would emerge , following in the footsteps of my already famous colleague , who then called himself James Ngugi . |
| 15 | Intellectually it was an exciting time to be a research student in the English Faculty . |
| 16 | It was an exciting time for the profession . |
| 17 | It was an exciting time , a chance to experience the ‘ glory and excitement ’ of war , detached from its purpose . |
| 18 | It was an interesting time to be at the centre , for news was beginning to get through from Burma and plans for reconstruction after liberation were being drawn up . |
| 19 | A few good movies were still being made in Hollywood , and it was an interesting time there . ’ |
| 20 | It was an important time for them ; they had to prove that they were on target and ready to execute their task successfully . |