Example sentences of "[pron] is time [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 There is time to put the register right .
2 In order to help the patient learn to judge distances , you can practise crossing roads with him , pointing out how far away any oncoming traffic is , and telling the patient whether there is time to cross the road , and , if so , how much time you have to get across .
3 Castors , as well as being a straightforward mobility device , also help with kitchen hygiene when it is time to clean the floor .
4 It is time to leave the capital and have a walk ; let us rise betimes .
5 ‘ We think it is time to kill the project off , ’ one official told New Scientist last week .
6 It is time to turn the tables and consider how the existence of life may have affected the atmosphere of the early Earth .
7 It is time to examine the validity of this argument .
8 He says : ‘ I suggest it is time to examine the structure of the Federation .
9 After dinner it is time to visit the bakers , hard at work in the mobile field bakery .
10 It is time to treat the spectators as paying customers and look after them .
11 It is time to give the other side a chance .
12 It is time to give the angels something to sing about .
13 But I do believe it is time to include the people who play rugby in decisions on how they should play rugby . ’
14 Women may feed their husbands or lovers with energy and then , after a while , change tack , deciding that it is time to draw the tide of emotional response towards themselves .
15 If you are serious about this , it is time to set the tables for breakfast . ’
16 That we can , must , involve the reader , make the reader participate in the feeling we are trying to represent ; and we learn , too , that there are some subjects , like this one , so powerful in themselves that they require the simplest narration when it is time to take the reader to the climax .
17 That , according to the IRB , has largely been achieved and now , in the aftermath of the phenomenal success of the World Cup , the IRB think it is time to take the game to the world .
18 Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest .
19 It is time to bring the staff of primary and secondary schools into line to recognise that there is no argument for giving 15-year-olds more teachers than seven-year-olds .
20 It is time to bring the abortion law in Northern Ireland in line with majority opinion . ’
21 Given the inconclusive nature of the evidence on patterns of performance and the negative connotations of ‘ underachievement ’ it is time to drop the term and refer instead to relative levels of achievement .
22 ‘ Eh bien , my friends , ’ he said , brushing a crumb of cheese straw from the lapel of his immaculately pressed suit , ‘ it is time to make the beginning .
23 This means it is time to loose the last two arrows and decide whether to aim for the middle of the target to boost your score , or to aim for the outside edge of the target and the chance of winning the Horn Spoon .
24 Mr Loyden had asked the Premier to ‘ acknowledge the fact that it is time to repay the debt that we owe to the Merchant Navy , which lost 30,000-plus seamen during the war years ’ .
25 It is time to prepare the evening meal of beans , peanut sauce , rice , cassava or sweet potato ; if we are lucky we will have matooke .
26 If it begins to look doubtful that the site can be reached and the glider is down to 1,000 feet , it is time to select the best possible field within easy reach and to make a safe landing in it .
27 Now it is time to consider the area 's ethnic relationship as a whole to the Great-Russian heartland .
28 Once you have chosen your core it is time to consider the rest of your army .
29 Now it is time to fight the Minotaur !
30 It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental , longer-term challenges facing society : the ageing of the population .
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