Example sentences of "[verb] the time have come " in BNC.

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1 As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn .
2 Do you think the time has come to fight our enemies ? ’
3 ‘ Do n't you think the time 's come , Albert , ’ wheedled Nelly , ‘ when we thought of setting up here together ?
4 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 .
5 Law : Crucial battle for the high moral ground : As Parliament prepares to debate embryo research , Simon Lee says the time has come to approach the issues more responsibly
6 And Dons boss Joe Kinnear reckons the time has come for Fashanu to be reconsidered by England in time for next month 's World Cup qualifier against Norway at Wembley .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 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 .
9 Late in the afternoon , I decided the time had come to go .
10 She decided the time had come to leave the bordello , and seek lodgings somewhere in the vicinity of the Pont du Sevres .
11 10 years ago BBC1 's Last of the Summer Wine was going strong as Foggy and Clegg decided the time had come to replace Compo 's well-worn trousers .
12 A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it .
13 ‘ I believe the time has come when the Chamber should say that we can no longer afford to fund the lights from subscriptions alone , said Mr. King emphasising that unless all traders contribute there may well be no lights this year .
14 That is why I believe the time has come when Labour should commit itself to a Bill of Rights based on the European Convention of Human Rights .
15 Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments .
16 In time and with an increasingly ageing population , I foresee the same thing happening here ; that when people feel the time has come for release , they will gather the family round them to say farewell and then with those they love most beside them , they will ask for and be handed , as their right , the means of self-deliverance .
17 ‘ The company has been a wonderful part of my life , but I feel the time has come to permit a younger generation to take the reins . ’
18 However , 15 years on , I feel the time has come for me to have a change of hairstyle .
19 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 .
20 There were certainly those who felt the time had come to end the war , a courageous stance in view of the Imam 's known determination to keep going .
21 Constance knew the time had come to face the music and speak to Nora .
22 He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last .
23 ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one .
24 But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party .
25 Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’
26 ‘ Now she feels the time has come to hand over to someone else .
27 Noting that the amateur code is still alive and well in Canada , Hadley nevertheless feels the time has come , as he says , for the powers-that-be to open their eyes to reality .
28 COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open .
29 I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’
30 ‘ But I think the time has come , ’ he went on , ‘ when the same microscope should be employed in another part of Ireland , namely the North .
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