Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no question here that PW acted completely above board , but it strikes me that the time has come to consider whether the profession 's rules and regulations on reporting to external authorities are not too restrictive . |
| 2 | It seems to me that the time , effort , initiative , and determination required to complete this course are equivalent to that needed to complete a research project . |
| 3 | It is unsure of its policies , and has been slow to recruit members and persuade them that the time for talks has come . |
| 4 | His response is to impress upon them that the time is not now , that only God knows when it will be , and in the meantime they are to concentrate on the number-one task of world-wide witness for which the Holy Spirit would equip them ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 5 | It was this approach that Spaniards were reminded of on 31 March 1947 , as they listened to Franco 's reedy voice on the radio , telling them that the time had come to " confront the ultimate definition of [ their ] State , inseparably linked to the statute of succession in its highest echelons " . |
| 6 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 7 | He politely declined to pose for pictures with Nesta and added : ‘ I have nothing else to say today … but I will say plenty when the time comes . ’ |
| 8 | He will find out for himself when the time is right . ’ |
| 9 | She and Uncle Matthew had agreed , in spite of her strong disapproval of Ruth 's plans for the future , that she should live with them until the time came to leave . |
| 10 | The reason destroying it now would be no solution , he wrote , is that what sickens me is not the object itself but the time and thought I have put into it . |
| 11 | You 'll learn all I can tell you when the time comes and not a moment sooner . |
| 12 | Well I will ask you when the time comes . |
| 13 | ‘ I see now why you said I could give it back to you when the time was right . ’ |
| 14 | " Never mind , Audrey and I will give you a pile of disposable nappies or something when the time comes . " |
| 15 | Knox was invited to return ; but when he reached Dieppe , he found messages telling him that the time was not ripe . |
| 16 | Once he had Garry back with Berenice he would n't give a thought to the Adams twins and she would forget him and the time she had spent hunting Garry and her sister through the Northumberland countryside . |
| 17 | But if he could not persuade her when the time came to move , Jean-Paul could . |
| 18 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 19 | The idea that anything can last for ever is nonsense , and if that 's what happens with Kiss , then fair enough ; if it does n't mean anything more to anyone than the time the band was functioning then that 's also perfectly fine with me . ’ |
| 20 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 21 | It would have been much more subtle just to have allowed his wife to demonstrate it when the time came and then to turn it into a talking point . ’ |
| 22 | After all , they may want to publish multimedia editions of their works themselves when the time is right . |
| 23 | No custom was more deeply rooted than that of visiting the graves of the dead and arranging to be laid beside them when the time came . |
| 24 | But I was told that since I was so keen to have these things I had better think about how we would use them when the time came . |
| 25 | Says David Stokes : ‘ My parents said they would by them for me when the time was right but I would be too embarrassed to ask . |
| 26 | You can give it to me when the time is right . ’ |
| 27 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 28 | It 's something we must put behind us and the time to start is in winter conditions . |