Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 3 | Ruskin started writing when he was seven and did n't stop until he was 70 ; in between he wrote more than almost anyone else in the 19th century , which was not a time of literary reticence . |
| 4 | This was not a time to cut back the resources of the department which deals with the most acute form of social need , but a time to expand , provide more personnel , more finance , and more expertise . |
| 5 | It was not a time of inaction , for there was plenty to be done . |
| 6 | It was not a time for students of the world to ponder the great matters of global history , to care about the great beyond , to notice the unleashing of distant energies . |
| 7 | Although he enjoyed gambling , this was not a time for such activities ; he needed a clear head at all times . |
| 8 | This was not a time for tears . |
| 9 | He was right , of course , this was not a time for love . |
| 10 | ‘ Something like that , ’ Now was not the time to suggest to this woman that her husband had been a blackmailer as well as a thief . |
| 11 | He would have liked to have driven his dagger straight into the interfering clerk 's throat but knew this was not the time nor the occasion . |
| 12 | But it was not the time for lingering or relaxation . |
| 13 | But now was not the time to rock the boat . |
| 14 | Now was not the time for reminiscing . |
| 15 | Now was not the time to tell him how she had tried to phone her mother , had dialled the number and her father answered . |
| 16 | Unfortunately this was not the time for it . |
| 17 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 18 | Now was not the time for emotion , but for logic . |
| 19 | Adam realized this was not the time to bring it out in the open . |
| 20 | He did n't speak for nearly a minute ; the DDA sat quietly , knowing this was not the time to interrupt his thoughts . |
| 21 | There were , thought Dalgliesh , other possibilities , but now was not the time to discuss them . |
| 22 | Huy wanted to ask more about the policeman , but decided that now was not the time . |
| 23 | Now was not the time to preach . |
| 24 | It was not the time to talk . |
| 25 | She knew how Felipe felt about Ana 's future but this was not the time to point it out . |
| 26 | This was not the time to antagonise him , not if she wanted to get home soon and in one piece . |
| 27 | This was not the time to object to his tone . |
| 28 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 29 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 30 | But now was not the time to tell him . |