Example sentences of "it be at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 2 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 3 | seems like an hour and a half when it 's at that time |
| 4 | At the end of a long , draggy , boring Friday afternoon , it 's at last time to clear up . |
| 5 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 6 | It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard . |
| 7 | It is at this time that the trident became a regular part of her iconography , specifically after the great victory of the Earl of Howe at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 ; shortly thereafter , from the early nineteenth century , she is also regularly shown as wearing a helmet . |
| 8 | It is at this time that some do-gooders may make all kinds of suggestions . |
| 9 | Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female . |
| 10 | It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's . |
| 11 | The way forward then is to recruit , and the importance of new members was never more critical than it is at this time . |
| 12 | ‘ How beautiful it is at this time of the year . ’ |
| 13 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
| 14 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 15 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 16 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 17 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 18 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 19 | I 'm sure it was at one time . |
| 20 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 21 | It was at that time , in fact , that he met Andy Warhol . |
| 22 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 23 | It was at that time like wine to be in the presence of the Lusignan Bastard , ebullient , assured of success , glowing with pride in himself and his army . |
| 24 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 25 | It was at that time the highest innings by anyone until A.E.J. Collins hit an unbeaten 628 in a junior house match at Clifton College in 1899 . |
| 26 | And er it was at that time that the Independent Labour Party left the I the Labour Party . |
| 27 | That 's how tight it was at that time o' day ! |
| 28 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
| 29 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 30 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |