Example sentences of "[art] time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual speed at the time is usually far too slow to allow for any use of the airbrakes , but there is plenty of room ahead for a safe landing . |
| 2 | ‘ Having seen him about six times , and having spoken to most of their leaders , I believe that the time is right for us to talk to them now , to end this whole conflict once and for all . |
| 3 | ‘ That is what I would like to do when the time is right . ’ |
| 4 | Sir Fred Catherwood , a senior Tory member of the European Parliament , said the Prime Minister 's insistence that Britain should join when the time is right had become ‘ a bit of a joke ’ . |
| 5 | The time is fast approaching where both the stock market and Eurotunnel 's bankers require something a little more concrete than vague reassurances that it will be all right on the night . |
| 6 | The Bundesbank has made mock of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ when the time is right ’ position . |
| 7 | The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ . |
| 8 | Because this phrase has been understood to mean , as far as Margaret Thatcher is concerned , ‘ over my dead body ’ , an announcement that the time is now ripe would be interpreted as a climbdown . |
| 9 | Entry has long been opposed by Margaret Thatcher and her No 10 economic adviser , Sir Alan Walters — resisting the overtures of Nigel Lawson and Sir Geoffrey Howe with the brick-wall response that the pound would enter ‘ when the time is ripe ’ . |
| 10 | Britain should then join the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System , which Mrs Thatcher keeps promising to do when the time is ripe . ’ |
| 11 | You can be nice with a slight edge of cynicism like Ludovic Kennedy , Alan Whicker or Desmond Lynam but , in adult television at least , being pleasant about everything all the time is best left to constitutional monarchs . |
| 12 | So the time is ripe for a major overhaul of the sixth form . |
| 13 | The time is now 7.30 p.m. and I have just finished a very good meal of my favourite steak and kidney out of , of course , the self-heating tin . |
| 14 | Editors do think explicitly about timing and they are not motivated merely to be the first to print a ‘ scoop ’ : they keep stories until the time is ripe . |
| 15 | When an addition is made to the system of state-provided services , it is only made because there is a general opinion that the time is ripe for it and that such provision is ‘ only right ’ . |
| 16 | With more than 30 different sightings of mink in a recent five hour match at Kidsgrove and Scholar Green , anglers have agreed the time is right to remove the killers |
| 17 | I du n no what the time is , but I reckon it 's getting pretty late . |
| 18 | The summit will not be all about Mrs Thatcher 's ritual denunciation of the Social Charter , her contempt for the potential of the European Parliament , her denial that the time is right , her isolated war against any truck with monetary union . |
| 19 | Marco-Pierre White , chef/proprietor of Harveys I think the time is fast approaching when the lady must be given no choice . |
| 20 | The new party will emerge out of the Solidarity chrysalis when Mr Walesa judges the time is right to give the venture his full blessing . |
| 21 | If it is true that the Japanese have pardoned the politicians implicated in the Recruit affair , Mr Takeshita may indeed feel that the time is ripe for his return . |
| 22 | ‘ What do you reckon the time is ? ’ he said . |
| 23 | The time is fast approaching when a more accurate division of mankind will be between those who are patients , knowing despair as well as they know the lines grooved into their own hands , and those who are psychiatrists , so helplessly and irrecoverably sick that they believe that , serenity can be achieved by swallowing a few polychromatic biochemicals ! |
| 24 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |
| 25 | If we listen acutely enough , the person who is dying will tell us when the time is right . |
| 26 | You 've just got to keep doubling up until the time is right . |
| 27 | The Jews ’ problem at the time is , of course , still ours . |
| 28 | ‘ The time is ripe to abandon not the rank structure but the tendency to impart fashionable management theories which are not necessarily appropriate to policing and which only confuse supervisors throughout the service . |
| 29 | I actually think the time is right in the next nine months to be buying a property . |
| 30 | In common with other taxpayers , and in the best interests of all parties , I believe the time is long overdue for impartiality to be compelled upon this publicly funded corporation . |