Example sentences of "was [adv] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the middle of a courtroom in front of a judge was hardly the time or the place . ’ |
| 2 | It was also the time that the National Joint Action Committee for Women 's Equal Rights had been formed . |
| 3 | This , however , was precisely the time that Guntram and Childebert were in dispute over Marseilles . |
| 4 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 5 | Emily felt angry words rise to her lips but quickly suppressed them , this was neither the time nor the place to argue Craig 's innocence . |
| 6 | She bit back her anger , for it was neither the time nor the place to start an argument . |
| 7 | But this was neither the time nor the place for a show-down — the score would have to be settled later . |