Example sentences of "[verb] it be time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know it 's time for ? |
| 2 | Most of the signals are only noted subconsciously but , with a little effort , it is quite easy to become more aware of them so that , should a warning bell ring at the back of your head , you will know it is time to be careful . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Conservationists say it 's time for the building to stop . |
| 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 | I know it 's time for audience participation . |
| 12 | Britain may have to bide it 's time for it 's next tennis hero … |
| 13 | ‘ Everywhere I go I meet people from the town saying it 's time for a change . ’ |
| 14 | Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high-jinks in the sink . |
| 18 | In the meantime the people on the boat moored between Bob Nudd and myself decided it was time for a move . |
| 19 | One of the tractor drivers ( which had been turning in front of me all day ) decided it was time for dinner . |
| 20 | I decided it was time for a change . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It shows that the people of the town believe it is time for change and that it 's time for Labour . ’ |
| 25 | It shows that the people of the town believe it is time for change and that it 's time for Labour . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After keeping and breeding Malawi Cichlids for the past fifteen years NANCY SHUTTLE felt it was time for winds of change to blow into the fish house . |
| 28 | A spokesman for Selina said : ‘ She felt it was time for a change . ’ |
| 29 | Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |