Example sentences of "[adv] it is [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur Cox 's admiration for John Fashanu is well known , and perhaps it is time for the Maxwell millions to be used to purchase just such a battering Ram . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is time for a change , but the only change available is Labour , with or without Liberal appendages . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is time for the IB to appoint its own disciplinary committee to act where individual unions refuse to do so . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is time for a reminder of our purpose . |
| 5 | " Perhaps it is time for a little truth . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to look again at the slalom rules that allow dipping and sideways presentations . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is time for the society to change its name . |
| 8 | So it is bread on both rods , except that I make a paste for the free-line rod so that I am still offering a bait on a weightless rig . |
| 9 | The University had by now hired a professional in the form of one Ira Magaziner , a business strategy consultant who also picked up the ‘ yellow peril ’ theme by telling the congressional enquiry : ‘ As I speak to you now it is midnight in Japan . |
| 10 | Now it is time for the new generation born in the wilderness to cross the Jordan , and to begin to take possession of the Land , led not by Moses , of course , since he must die on the wrong side of the river , but by Joshua . |
| 11 | ‘ Now it is time for us to part , alas , alas ! |
| 12 | Today it is home to the 1066 Story . |
| 13 | We promised you more of that Hudson Hawk map , and here it is courtesy of David Pitchforth . |
| 14 | FOLLOWING the massive increase in the popularity of rugby union as a result of the World Cup , and the demands that our top players now endure , surely it is time for British rugby union to go professional . |
| 15 | As my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian ( Mr. Home Robertson ) rightly pointed out , surely it is time for a little contrition . |
| 16 | Surely it is time for the present Home Secretary — who started all this in Cabinet , along with the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) — to apologise . |
| 17 | This is the same proposal , associated with the Port Royal grammar and earlier versions of Chomskyan grammar , which has already been mentioned in this chapter in connexion with prenominal attributives ( 3.2 and 3.3 ) ; or rather it is part of the same proposal , since the full clause with adjective in post-copular position is claimed as the " origin " for both sorts of attributive . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe it is time for me to get angry and fight back at those who are fighting me , ’ she said . |
| 19 | If a committee wishes to go beyond the scrutiny of administration and to challenge the basis of policy , then it is time for a minister to come and argue in favour of the policy under review . |
| 20 | Then it is time for it to find a suitable spot to turn into a chrysalis . |
| 21 | Then it is time for Frank to give a sample of his act , which is built around a ventriloquist 's dummy called Marvin the Monkey . |
| 22 | I do not know whether he wishes to reconsider what on earth he means by saying that it is a flimsy excuse : either it is part of the law , or it is not . |
| 23 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 24 | Again it is part of the conditioning that women have received in early childhood . |
| 25 | While this has sometimes been aimed at the complete subversion and overthrow of the established political order , as in the case of the Bader-Meinhoff group in West Germany and the Italian Red Brigades , more recently it is concern over nuclear weapons , and specifically the installation of cruise missiles that has engendered extra-constitutional forms of dissent both in this country and abroad . |
| 26 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |