Example sentences of "[pron] be time that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It 's time that they looked at themselves .
2 Before starting comrades I think it 's time that we nailed a couple of lies that are being put about , about this union and other trade unions .
3 ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family .
4 Well do you think it 's time that you started taking time off in lieu ?
5 It is time that we turned to the inside of our book and began to explore its mysteries and terminology .
6 The data are piling up thick and fast , and it is time that we paused to examine how far we have travelled and which direction we should now follow .
7 Dr Dowling thinks that it is time that we stopped ‘ tinkering at the edges of the problem ’ of the preregistration year and totally rethought our responses to it .
8 Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing .
9 We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha .
10 It is time that we started reading and hearing more of the good people can do for themselves and for others .
11 It is time that they had a backing .
12 It is time that he visited his constituency and had a look around .
13 He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job .
14 We are altogether too frivolous towards feet and it is time that someone put their foot down .
15 I FEEL it is time that someone spoke out about our appalling refereeing standards .
16 It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously .
17 Maybe it is time that I came in out of the storm . "
18 It is time that your creative talents were developed alongside individuals who are of like mind and outlook , and you could not wish for a better planetary set-up to further your aims and ambitions : the past few years have taught you all you need to know about self-survival .
19 If Forman was right in believing that the movies were ‘ a school , a system of education ’ , albeit as yet ‘ unlimited , untrammelled and uncontrolled ’ , and Charters could believe that the ‘ motion picture as such is a potent medium for education ’ , then it was time that something was done .
20 I resigned from the family planning about seven years ago when my husband retired , as I say because he used to help me very much and when he retired and my children had all married I felt it was time that I should retire too .
21 She had not told him what Ana had said to her and it was time that he knew .
22 But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance .
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