Example sentences of "not the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now was not the time to preach . |
| 2 | Not the time to ask . |
| 3 | If you wish to encourage mistletoe to grow upon an old apple tree , you should not use seeds which are left after being hung inside the house over Christmas — these will have dried out and besides , winter is not the time to plant them . |
| 4 | Chairman , er , can I very briefly reply to what Councillor Parker has said , and then come on to my erm , uncontroversial question about our Erm , I think now is not the time to give a detailed reply to this . |
| 5 | Now is not the time to arrive at the friary . |
| 6 | Has not the time come , however , to evaluate the optimum pupil-teacher ratio for pupils at any given age , with a view to establishing it ? |
| 7 | Has not the time come for the Government to commit themselves unequivocally to legislate in the next Parliament so that those who wish to shop on Sunday and exercise their free choice to do so are enabled to do so by total deregulation of the law ? |
| 8 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 9 | And when the law actually penalises people who inflict punishment outside the law through sheer frustration with its inadequacies , has not the time come for judges to realise they are dealing with real-world situations and sentence accordingly ? |
| 10 | This was not the time to object to his tone . |
| 11 | But now is not the time to speculate . |
| 12 | Three minutes before kick-off is not the time to stage a dressing room revolt . |
| 13 | This was not the time to antagonise him , not if she wanted to get home soon and in one piece . |
| 14 | So , even amid the fading glow of the MCG 's floodlights , and the successful reintroduction of South Africa , it is not the time to sit still and just ponder the future . |
| 15 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 16 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 17 | Not the time to talk of reunification , says Gerasimov Moscow welcomes collapse of the Wall . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ Politically it is not the time to talk about re-unification . |
| 19 | But this is not the time to talk about that . |
| 20 | It was not the time to talk . |
| 21 | Now is not the time to rip down the wallpaper or tear down walls . ’ |
| 22 | I have tried to sell the shares on several occasions through Harvard , having been told " now is not the time to sell , " and " best I can do is 5p ! " |
| 23 | It 's not the time to argue about the small print of your contract . |
| 24 | This was not the time to argue with him . |
| 25 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 26 | Now above all times , she felt , was not the time to push her luck . |
| 27 | If now is not the time to put the line in the sand and say , ‘ Thus far and no further ’ , when are we to say that ? |
| 28 | This is not the time to press this Bill , even if there were merits in it , considering the climate in Europe . |
| 29 | Yet she sensed that now was not the time to press for a formal interview . |
| 30 | She knew how Felipe felt about Ana 's future but this was not the time to point it out . |