Example sentences of "the time have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 2 | The time had come . |
| 3 | By now the time had come for me to hand back to these women responsibility to go it alone . |
| 4 | We decided eventually that the time had come to rehearse this seriously and he was very happy about it . |
| 5 | The Greens were still arguing over whether the time had come to loosen principle a little and elect a leader , a public face , perhaps Sara Parkin , the International Liaison Secretary of the UK Greens as well as the European Greens ' co-ordination co-secretary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The CPRS paper argued that if the Government were serious about reducing public expenditure , the time had come to consider some radical solutions . |
| 8 | Now , however , the time had come to part and Miss Howard was created Countess of Beauregard and established in a desirable residence in the country . |
| 9 | Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria . |
| 10 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 11 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 12 | The time had come ! |
| 13 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 15 | Even before the blazer , I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor . |
| 16 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 17 | Two minutes later I could hardly hear myself , so I smiled ( less warmly , I admit ) and suggested that the time had come for walkies . |
| 18 | The time had come for me to grow up . |
| 19 | But all the while he was learning and soon the time had come when he was no longer satisfied to design for others . |
| 20 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |
| 21 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 22 | It all stated when Jamie Spence 's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart . |
| 23 | Mr Hurd said he opposed military action , but conceded the time had come where he could ‘ imagine armed action against Serbia to prevent a general Balkan war ’ . |
| 24 | His popularity had increased and his ambition had increased proportionately — the time had come , he told himself , to put his carefully laid plan into action . |
| 25 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 26 | He said that it should not be regarded as a luxury but used for education , rural development and economic reform : the time had come , he said , ‘ for television to change its outlook in this country in order to suit the requirements of a developing country like Zambia ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Constance knew the time had come to face the music and speak to Nora . |
| 29 | When Largo Caballero resisted Communist pressure to dissolve the POUM and arrest its leaders , the Communists decided that the time had come to get rid of him . |
| 30 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |