Example sentences of "be time [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild . |
| 2 | If you stay here any longer it 'll be time to take the cows in for their evening milking . ’ |
| 3 | It may now be time to risk the uncertainty of a split . |
| 4 | Well , if you poked around the lot every hour , there would n't be time to cover the rest of the beat properly . |
| 5 | Day Five : Have an early breakfast then all too soon it will be time to catch the train back to the Hook of Holland for the crossing back to Harwich and onward rail journey to London , where your arrival time will be approximately 9 p.m . |
| 6 | Right , we 'll go up this way , through the promena along the promenade , and then we 'll go back through the town and it 'll be time to get the others from school by then . |
| 7 | Look if we do n't be quick it 'll be time to meet the children from school before |
| 8 | After the damaging Westland affair and the loss of two senior Cabinet ministers , there were even Conservatives who thought that it might be time to change the leader . |
| 9 | He says : ‘ I suggest it is time to examine the structure of the Federation . |
| 10 | It is time to examine the validity of this argument . |
| 11 | But I do believe it is time to include the people who play rugby in decisions on how they should play rugby . ’ |
| 12 | Women may feed their husbands or lovers with energy and then , after a while , change tack , deciding that it is time to draw the tide of emotional response towards themselves . |
| 13 | It is time to give the angels something to sing about . |
| 14 | That we can , must , involve the reader , make the reader participate in the feeling we are trying to represent ; and we learn , too , that there are some subjects , like this one , so powerful in themselves that they require the simplest narration when it is time to take the reader to the climax . |
| 15 | That , according to the IRB , has largely been achieved and now , in the aftermath of the phenomenal success of the World Cup , the IRB think it is time to take the game to the world . |
| 16 | ‘ We think it is time to kill the project off , ’ one official told New Scientist last week . |
| 17 | Castors , as well as being a straightforward mobility device , also help with kitchen hygiene when it is time to clean the floor . |
| 18 | Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest . |
| 19 | If you are serious about this , it is time to set the tables for breakfast . ’ |
| 20 | It is time to turn the tables and consider how the existence of life may have affected the atmosphere of the early Earth . |
| 21 | It is time to treat the spectators as paying customers and look after them . |
| 22 | It is time to leave the capital and have a walk ; let us rise betimes . |
| 23 | After dinner it is time to visit the bakers , hard at work in the mobile field bakery . |
| 24 | There is time to put the register right . |
| 25 | Once all the needles are back in working position is time to put the side levers at 0 for plain knitting on all needles . |
| 26 | Given the inconclusive nature of the evidence on patterns of performance and the negative connotations of ‘ underachievement ’ it is time to drop the term and refer instead to relative levels of achievement . |
| 27 | Mr Loyden had asked the Premier to ‘ acknowledge the fact that it is time to repay the debt that we owe to the Merchant Navy , which lost 30,000-plus seamen during the war years ’ . |
| 28 | 2/Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 29 | Having established the sketch , it is time to neutralise the starkness of the white paper by applying a basic , watery undercoat . |
| 30 | At their 1974 conference they decided : ‘ It is time to end the service 's love affair with education ’ . |