Example sentences of "not the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the only time Poindexter had to shut North up : partly because North genuinely did not know how widely the secret was known , but partly because he could hardly resist it anyway . |
| 2 | SPRING is not the only time to sow seeds . |
| 3 | It was not the only time that the Home Secretary , Sir George Grey , was identified as a sentimentalist . |
| 4 | It is not the only time my profound knowledge of football has stood me in good stead . |
| 5 | Students receive an overwhelming mass of information during their first weeks at college or university , so this is perhaps not the best time to distribute library handouts . |
| 6 | realise that this is not the best time to discuss their drug or solvent use |
| 7 | This being the case , summer weekends are not the best time to visit . |
| 8 | Politically it was perhaps not the best time to visit Israel with the deportees refuelling the Intifada unrest in the lands of the West Bank . |
| 9 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 10 | It 's not the best time to launch a new car but we 're optimistic that by 1992 it 'll be alright . |
| 11 | It was the normal time for a private member 's bill , but it was certainly not the normal time for a major Prime Ministerial oration . |
| 12 | ‘ Not the second time , not in March when they knocked it off at Stamford . |
| 13 | The PROFITBOSS gets there — if not the first time , then the second time ; if not the second time , then the thousandth time . |
| 14 | Now he saw that it was not the right time . |
| 15 | But she hands over the money because this is not the right time to fight him . |
| 16 | SUMMER nights are very short and not the right time of the year to look out for the stars . |
| 17 | ‘ This is not the right time . |
| 18 | I should n't worry about it in this wind , anyway it 's not the right time to do it in the wind , as cold as this , is it really ? |
| 19 | God it 's not the right time of the bloody month ! |
| 20 | This is not the first time that such considerations have arisen for readers of his fiction . |
| 21 | This was not the first time that George had attempted a figurative animal sculpture . |
| 22 | Although Willem ‘ Wimpie ’ de Klerk , the President 's brother , was a member of the team , it is not the first time he has met Mr Mbeki . |
| 23 | It was not the first time the 48-year-old comedian and doctor had pooped the party . |
| 24 | This is not the first time nor the last that we encounter this influential organization . |
| 25 | This is not the first time that Vitelli has insisted to Clara that his sexual desire for her is conjoined with an equally strong desire to kill/ fuck her father ( and , now , her brother ) : |
| 26 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 27 | The fight in Birkenhead was not the first time that Mr Field had crossed swords with the Labour left . |
| 28 | This is not the first time in his career that Mr Bond , condemned for unconventional and perhaps sometimes dubious business tactics , has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 29 | This is not the first time Mr Gorbachev has shown his brutal streak . |
| 30 | This was not the first time the elevator had startled her with its moods . |