Example sentences of "[verb] it be [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Do you know it 's time for ?
2 Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country .
3 Conservationists say it 's time for the building to stop .
4 Say it was night for instance .
5 People realise it is time for Labour . ’
6 Ken Croswell says it is time for a little post-Copernican thinking
7 Secondly , I 've decided it 's time for one of my all too infrequent trips to Elland Road .
8 There is a story , apocryphal no doubt , told by his friends that Bernard , having decided it was time for another move , walked into the offices of a prestigious estate agents one Saturday to see what was available .
9 I hope it is time for a change of Government .
10 The Prime Minister has said it is time for profound look at the future of Europe following the narrow , ’ Yes ’ vote in the French referendum on the Maastricht Treaty and the current sterling crisis .
11 But as Bill celebrated it was curtains for George and Barbara Bush … from West Derby .
12 and my Lord er in relation to this judgment er you 've got the courts setting out the principal at page er one stroke five , forty , paragraph fourteen of the judgment that 's the principal of suspension and it 's then got it 's conditions for suspension on the next page , paragraph twenty two
13 I know it 's time for audience participation .
14 Britain may have to bide it 's time for it 's next tennis hero …
15 ‘ Everywhere I go I meet people from the town saying it 's time for a change . ’
16 Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation .
17 Five years on , with the Nazis extending their anti-Semitic reach , Willi 's guardian , a Russian Jewess who looked after several refugee children , decided it was time for a mountain trek to more hospitable territory .
18 Helen continued to circulate ; I decided it was time for a pee and then maybe some food , which took me via the garden ( there was a queue for the downstairs loo , and the upper part of the castle was locked ) to the kitchen .
19 He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high-jinks in the sink .
20 In the meantime the people on the boat moored between Bob Nudd and myself decided it was time for a move .
21 One of the tractor drivers ( which had been turning in front of me all day ) decided it was time for dinner .
22 I decided it was time for a change . ’
23 At home he did n't spook at bright blue barrels , a wall or planks , so we decided it was time for our first party .
24 The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on .
25 It shows that the people of the town believe it is time for change and that it 's time for Labour . ’
26 It shows that the people of the town believe it is time for change and that it 's time for Labour . ’
27 He reflected the view of my constituents when he said that crime and how to reduce it are matters for the Government .
28 The hospital has over-spent it 's budget for this financial year by £70,000 .
29 Now that we 're well into the New Year and little seems to be happening on the rock , I guess it 's time for the traditional retrospective .
30 The early rain which shortened the game , meant it was weather for ducks .
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