Example sentences of "that it be time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 2 | Some European governments have begun to mutter that it is time the Croats had a taste of sanctions . |
| 3 | The day after the riot , one of their leaders announced that it is time the Russian parliament had a Russian speaker . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although Washington promptly distanced itself from his speech , and publicized its own high valuation of relations with Britain , George Ball , deputy to the US secretary of state , privately noted that it was time the British gave up their " not very healthy " illusions concerning the empire , the deterrent and the relationship with the United States . |