Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] now time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Minister think that it is now time to implement the proposals in the report ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ to introduce social loans , to take more stringent action against loan sharks who exploit poor people by their extortionate interest rates and to encourage a more responsible lending policy by banks ? |
| 2 | Crucially , it would be premature to conclude , on the basis of the lack of vociferous support for the welfare state in recent years , that it is now time to jettison what Pinker ( 1993 ) has termed the unitarist approach to welfare . |
| 3 | Weightlessness apparently does no great harm , so President George Bush says that it is now time to send people to Mars . |
| 4 | Kay 's article also suggests , however , that it is now time to consider regulating the conduct of doctors who repeatedly fail to maintain adequate professional standards . |
| 5 | We think that it is now time to review past demonstrations and to decide on the next steps . |
| 6 | In November , details were given regarding the season to date and it is now time to update to the midwinter break . |
| 7 | Bank of Ireland has made significant cost savings with the introduction of Bank Assistants and it is now time to redistribute some of those savings amongst those who most deserve it . |
| 8 | I introduced them briefly in Chapter 6 and it is now time to consider them more closely . |
| 9 | It is this creative extendability of the linguistic code that we had in mind in the earlier discussion of deviation and foregrounding ( see 1.4. ) and to which we shall return in 4.6 ; but it is now time to recognize that these are relative , not absolute concepts . |
| 10 | The time has wandered on to 11.15 pm and the only person that the august gathering has heard is the MC , but it is now time to introduce the first speaker , who needs little or no introduction . |