Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it be time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spent the rest of the afternoon in animated discussion — so animated that Folly had gently to point out to her employee that it was time to lock up . |
| 2 | Taking a simple example , you might suddenly have an intimation that it is time to change direction and find a new job . |
| 3 | Prolonged prosperity is as likely as prolonged adversity to engender the mood that it is time for a change . |
| 4 | Clinton , who the opinion polls consistently suggested enjoyed a significant lead , continued his relentless attack on the economic record of the Bush-Reagan years and repeated the underlying message of his campaign that it was time for change . |
| 5 | I 'm going to nip over and try to persuade our production team that it 's time to move over to PCs . |
| 6 | His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once . |
| 7 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 8 | At last the golden afternoon was over , and Robbie heard with regret Fen 's decree that it was time they returned to Water Gypsy . |
| 9 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 10 | In the belief that it was time a woman was honest about the experience , my paintings try to convey the sensation of giving birth and my feelings at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ No — but you dropped a dirty big hint that it 's time I was married , ’ he snapped tersely . |
| 12 | The beeper alarm on Diane 's watch sounded as they were driving back , the signal that it was time for her to go and collect the litterbug Jed from his minder . |
| 13 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 14 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 15 | Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it 's time to get up . |
| 16 | I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative . |
| 17 | ‘ I will not tolerate dissent , ’ said referee ‘ Jersey Joe ’ Walcott , who told the other chief offender Moin that it was time he ‘ grew up ’ . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |