Example sentences of "it is time [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Castors , as well as being a straightforward mobility device , also help with kitchen hygiene when it is time to clean the floor . |
| 2 | It is time to leave the capital and have a walk ; let us rise betimes . |
| 3 | ‘ We think it is time to kill the project off , ’ one official told New Scientist last week . |
| 4 | He says : ‘ I suggest it is time to examine the structure of the Federation . |
| 5 | It is time to examine the validity of this argument . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is time to bring the abortion law in Northern Ireland in line with majority opinion . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Once you have chosen your core it is time to consider the rest of your army . |
| 15 | Now it is time to consider the area 's ethnic relationship as a whole to the Great-Russian heartland . |
| 16 | Now it is time to fight the Minotaur ! |
| 17 | It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental , longer-term challenges facing society : the ageing of the population . |
| 18 | It is time to introduce the Treasury to the delights of off-balance-sheet financing . |
| 19 | 2/Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 20 | Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 21 | It is time to begin the reconstruction . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They recognise it is time to end the recession , to save the NHS and abolish the poll tax . |
| 25 | At their 1974 conference they decided : ‘ It is time to end the service 's love affair with education ’ . |