Example sentences of "it is time [to-vb] the [noun] " 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 | It is time to turn the tables and consider how the existence of life may have affected the atmosphere of the early Earth . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ I suggest it is time to examine the structure of the Federation . |
| 6 | It is time to examine the validity of this argument . |
| 7 | After dinner it is time to visit the bakers , hard at work in the mobile field bakery . |
| 8 | It is time to treat the spectators as paying customers and look after them . |
| 9 | It is time to give the angels something to sing about . |
| 10 | But I do believe it is time to include the people who play rugby in decisions on how they should play rugby . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If you are serious about this , it is time to set the tables for breakfast . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It is time to bring the abortion law in Northern Ireland in line with majority opinion . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Once you have chosen your core it is time to consider the rest of your army . |
| 23 | Now it is time to consider the area 's ethnic relationship as a whole to the Great-Russian heartland . |
| 24 | Now it is time to fight the Minotaur ! |
| 25 | It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental , longer-term challenges facing society : the ageing of the population . |
| 26 | It is time to introduce the Treasury to the delights of off-balance-sheet financing . |
| 27 | 2/Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 28 | Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 29 | It is time to begin the reconstruction . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |