Example sentences of "it be time [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Women may feed their husbands or lovers with energy and then , after a while , change tack , deciding that it is time to draw the tide of emotional response towards themselves . |
| 32 | If you are serious about this , it is time to set the tables for breakfast . ’ |
| 33 | That we can , must , involve the reader , make the reader participate in the feeling we are trying to represent ; and we learn , too , that there are some subjects , like this one , so powerful in themselves that they require the simplest narration when it is time to take the reader to the climax . |
| 34 | That , according to the IRB , has largely been achieved and now , in the aftermath of the phenomenal success of the World Cup , the IRB think it is time to take the game to the world . |
| 35 | Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest . |
| 36 | It is time to bring the staff of primary and secondary schools into line to recognise that there is no argument for giving 15-year-olds more teachers than seven-year-olds . |
| 37 | ‘ It is time to bring the abortion law in Northern Ireland in line with majority opinion . ’ |
| 38 | Given the inconclusive nature of the evidence on patterns of performance and the negative connotations of ‘ underachievement ’ it is time to drop the term and refer instead to relative levels of achievement . |
| 39 | ‘ Eh bien , my friends , ’ he said , brushing a crumb of cheese straw from the lapel of his immaculately pressed suit , ‘ it is time to make the beginning . |
| 40 | 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 ’ . |
| 41 | It is time to prepare the evening meal of beans , peanut sauce , rice , cassava or sweet potato ; if we are lucky we will have matooke . |
| 42 | Once you have chosen your core it is time to consider the rest of your army . |
| 43 | Now it is time to consider the area 's ethnic relationship as a whole to the Great-Russian heartland . |
| 44 | Now it is time to fight the Minotaur ! |
| 45 | It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental , longer-term challenges facing society : the ageing of the population . |
| 46 | It is time to introduce the Treasury to the delights of off-balance-sheet financing . |
| 47 | 2/Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 48 | Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 49 | It is time to begin the reconstruction . ’ |
| 50 | The next time you need to backup the directory you copy it into \WORK\WORK\WORK and so on until you feel that it is time to start the backup off from the start again . |
| 51 | Once a user is convinced that the DSP chip is capable of fulfilling the system requirements then it is time to start the design for real , probably design of an embedded system . |
| 52 | They recognise it is time to end the recession , to save the NHS and abolish the poll tax . |
| 53 | At their 1974 conference they decided : ‘ It is time to end the service 's love affair with education ’ . |
| 54 | Processing the data and analysing the results Having collected all the completed questionnaires or interview schedules , it is time to process the data , putting answers into categories , adding up totals , and generally finding out the pattern of the responses and expressing them in statistical terms . |
| 55 | Perhaps it is time to rethink the objectives of this aspect of health promotion . |
| 56 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 57 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 58 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 59 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |
| 60 | It was time to plant the tank . |