Example sentences of "it was [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be worse if the army — ’ But it was no time to be arguing . |
| 2 | It was no time for me to be getting weepy . |
| 3 | It was no time for niceties . |
| 4 | I felt that it was no time for living dangerously . |
| 5 | With the economy in the doldrums and the Pound struggling to keep its head above water , it was no time for Terry to splash out a couple of hundred quid beside the seaside . |
| 6 | I doubted that , but it was no time for me to talk out of turn . |
| 7 | It certainly dried quicker but the oilskin got very hard and it was no time till it when you were walking . |
| 8 | It was a time for fierce tactics , not for scruples . |
| 9 | It was a time when children were encouraged to fantasize about machines and outer space rather than marvel at the open spaces where the deer and buffalo roamed . |
| 10 | It was a time of great alarm in the Hindu heavens , for Ravana , the Rakshasa king of Lanka , had obtained terrible powers and was threatening the world . |
| 11 | But now , it was a time for truth and Phoebe said , ‘ No . |
| 12 | It was a time to dry out , three days of solid rain having dampened all but our spirits , and to finish our excess of the other kind of spirits before attempting to cross the border . |
| 13 | It was a time when the whole underground culture was at its height and I was very much involved in that and had been since early ‘ 67 . |
| 14 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 15 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a time for other artists . ’ |
| 17 | It was a time for being away from the cities , for reading and reflection , and being alone with nature . |
| 18 | It was a time when to be ‘ new ’ seemed more than usually important , as exemplified by the titles of its livelier publications : New Writing , New Verse . |
| 19 | It was a time when commonsense and reality seemed to be in suspension . |
| 20 | Obviously it was a time to reconsider the issue of widening both sets of locks . |
| 21 | It was a time of great migration . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a time of freshness and discovery of what acting was all about , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It was a time for reflection in 1964 , when the film was released . |
| 24 | Athens … was a place of wonder and beauty , and it was a time to marvel at the achievements of mathematicians and astronomers — a time to build and admire a Tower of the Winds . ’ |
| 25 | It was a time of great anxiety and distress , and yet everything that was beautiful and worth while seemed more precious than ever before . |
| 26 | For me it was a time of revelation . |
| 27 | For those whose husbands had not yet returned , which included my own husband , it was a time of unhappy waiting . |
| 28 | It was a time for flower power and a return to nature and the simple ways . |
| 29 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 30 | She did so , it was a time before statues were used for devotion . |