Example sentences of "[noun] that the time have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably this advance which persuaded Eleanor that the time had come to join her sons . |
| 2 | The signing of its charter by representatives of 144 electric utilities with working nuclear power stations was a recognition that the time had come to take the secrecy out of nuclear power and prove that there was a worldwide interest in co-operation and information exchange . |
| 3 | A review of this coverage supports the conclusion that the refusal of tenure to MacCabe was related to a sense among Cambridge traditionalists that the time had come to mount a strong resistance to further incursions by the tendency MacCabe was thought to support . |
| 4 | Not satisfied , the Admiralty pressed the issue to the Cabinet and Wilson and Tupper were summoned to appear before a committee of Coalition Ministers , with Balfour in the chair , supported by Sir Edward Carson , Dr Macnamara and Arthur Henderson and faced by the proposal that the time had come for merchant seamen to be conscripted for national service . |
| 5 | Mandela had urged the EC to refrain from lifting any sanctions for two or three months ; he told the ANC consultative conference that the time had come for a " re-evaluation " of sanctions , but the 1,600 delegates voted to push for their retention . |
| 6 | The SSPCA freely admits that feeding livestock on the hills runs contrary to the accepted practice in many hill farming areas but it is of the opinion that the time has come when a stand has to be made . |
| 7 | Recent improvements in navigation and the expansion of commerce persuaded Bacon that the time had come . |
| 8 | Having made significant political concessions to the pro-Allied monarchist and military " families " in the first half of the year , while repeatedly stalling on entry to the war on the side of the Axis , from June to December 1941 he showed open and sometimes vehement support for the Axis , ignoring the criticism of his senior generals and their suggestions that the time had come to consider restoring the monarchy . |
| 9 | The favourable response to Labour 's initiative in circles well removed from the Party 's normal supporters helped to persuade Lloyd George that the time had come for the Government to reassert its authority . |
| 10 | The King 's Private Secretary , Lord Stamfordham , wrote to MacDonald to say that the King was ‘ profoundly impressed with Sir Arthur Balfour 's letter to you — his review of the critical condition of affairs will , in His Majesty 's opinion , bring home to his Ministers that the time has come when even emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity which , as Sir Arthur Balfour states , is not altogether incompatible with that of the Great War . |