Example sentences of "[verb] whether [pron] [be] time " in BNC.

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1 After several hours of interment and long and complicated ritual preparations , a series of oracular tests was performed to discover whether it was time to open up the ritual grave and recover the cured patient .
2 He wonders whether it is time to head back to the city with its purified air , sweet , crystal water and groomed inhabitants .
3 My hands felt clammy , the usual signs of old Shallot beginning to wonder whether it is time to cut and run .
4 Regret not seeing Prague though she might , perhaps , she began to wonder whether it was time she returned to England .
5 Of course , the COSHH regulations do not apply offshore , and the Minister ought to consider whether it is time to provide such protection for those who work in the offshore industry .
6 READING about how Princess Anne bossed her new husband around on their wedding day made me wonder whether it is time the rules of royal succession were changed .
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