Example sentences of "it be time [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business hospitality When business is done and the meeting concluded , nothing revives the hardworking executive like a glass of Scotch … and when it 's time to seal the deal with valued clients , there is no more fitting toast nor better appreciated mark of esteem than to offer the noble spirit . |
| 2 | So should you discover that you are spending more time in Safeways than on the north-bound carriageway of the A9 , it 's time to tackle the South Glen Shiel Ridge . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it 's time to say the Rosary , ’ he said earlier than usual , taking out his beads . |
| 4 | Anybody who 's anybody knows that a pair of brand new trainers — bright laces undone , tongues out , displaying that all important brand name — says more about you than a wallet full of gold credit cards ’ , you know it 's time to leave the country and live on a desert island in your bare feet or search the loft for your ex-issue Diadora Borg Elite or Stan Smiths . |
| 5 | Day Eight : You are at leisure until it 's time to leave the Hotelship and catch your scheduled flight back to London Heathrow from Dresden airport . |
| 6 | And it 's time to put the team before any individual gripes . |
| 7 | It 's time to put the lid on all the talk . ’ |
| 8 | It 's time to open the chamber and load up , then place the gun carefully down by your side . |
| 9 | So , while it 's a dull spot for sales , it 's time to prepare the ground so that , when the holiday-makers return , Wimpey will get the lion 's share of the Autumn buyers . |
| 10 | IT 'S TIME to announce the Diary Press Awards for 1989 . |
| 11 | Jenny with you till five o'clock and er as usual it 's time to play the mystery movie quiz . |
| 12 | No great tunes or psychotic spiels — if burning your sister provides such little fuel maybe it 's time to reconsider the rest of the family 's future . |
| 13 | No great tunes or psychotic spiels — if burning your sister provides such little fuel maybe it 's time to reconsider the rest of the family 's future . |
| 14 | Castors , as well as being a straightforward mobility device , also help with kitchen hygiene when it is time to clean the floor . |
| 15 | It is time to leave the capital and have a walk ; let us rise betimes . |
| 16 | ‘ We think it is time to kill the project off , ’ one official told New Scientist last week . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ I suggest it is time to examine the structure of the Federation . |
| 18 | It is time to examine the validity of this argument . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ It is time to bring the abortion law in Northern Ireland in line with majority opinion . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Once you have chosen your core it is time to consider the rest of your army . |
| 28 | Now it is time to consider the area 's ethnic relationship as a whole to the Great-Russian heartland . |
| 29 | Now it is time to fight the Minotaur ! |
| 30 | It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental , longer-term challenges facing society : the ageing of the population . |