Example sentences of "it be [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
| 3 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's about the time you washed my mouth out with soap . ’ |
| 5 | It 's by the time I could get my gloves on . |
| 6 | It 's like the time when you were in hospital . |
| 7 | It 's like the time when I nearly drowned in the Mediterranean with you . ’ |
| 8 | It is at the time when someone can say , ‘ This time last year … ’ |
| 9 | It is at the time of delivery that the goods must be reasonably fit for the purpose for which the buyer indicated he wanted them . |
| 10 | Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be . |
| 11 | Thus the wave is zero during the time interval — while it is over the time intervals — and — . |
| 12 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 13 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 14 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 15 | It was about the time of the William & Mary declaration that a group , predominately Quaker , and motivated by one Dr. Edward Wright " Physician at the Sign of the Ship neare the Monument in London " , became interested in mining and smelting . |
| 16 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
| 17 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 18 | It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along . |
| 19 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |
| 20 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 21 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 22 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 23 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |
| 24 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 25 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 26 | I can remember when the er Going down to the harbour for salt and we were getting from the manufacturer , it was at the time , getting cod liver oil , you know , ready prepared for us which was a quite a saving . |
| 27 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 28 | Although this was later found to be correct , there was no way of telling how true it was at the time . |
| 29 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 30 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |