Example sentences of "it be time [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's time to ask questions that do n't have easy answers .
2 When the last hymn is sung , it 's time to join mums and dads over the road at the church .
3 Do n't forget when it 's time to down tools and pop inside for your favourite TV and radio gardening programmes .
4 With the Gunners looking to make a rapid movement up the Premier League , Graham added : ‘ I would like to be higher in the table and now it 's time to put things right .
5 As I said , it 's time to put results before any other considerations .
6 It 's time to stop playing the Tories at their particular game ; it 's time to produce policies that will fire people 's imagination , and a more radical Labour Party that leads in ideas and innovation and does n't merely follow .
7 We have seen too much of this happening during the last ten years and believe it is time to tighten constraints through the use of various mechanisms including statutory Green Belts .
8 Because we 've given much space to the needs of working mothers , I felt it was time to give housewives their say .
9 He said that after 3 ½ years of competition between British Telecom and the Cable and Wireless subsidiary , Mercury Communications , it was time to survey customers ' experience and , if necessary , ‘ identify practices which might still be inhibiting competition ’ .
10 When Davies converted a penalty three minutes into the second half , Oxford realised that it was time to take matters into their own hands .
11 At 75 years of age also decided it was time to take things a little easier and retired on after 13 years with the company .
12 After we returned home it was time to order seeds for the coming year and get stuck into renovations of Melin Cottage .
13 Then it was time to compare notes on cost with his opposite number in the kitchens ; Mabel Giles .
14 But when I awoke , it was time to put dreams aside and get hold of reality .
15 He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled .
16 As Nazi Germany started to crumble into dust during the final battles of 1945 Gehlen realised that it was time to change sides .
17 It was time to break things up .
18 Now , he added , it was time to make decisions ‘ on the basis of what 's best for the British people . ’
19 And the government seemed to be growing up : when Russia announced it would start charging world prices for oil , the Ukrainian government , instead of moaning about injustice , said it was time to free prices and begin real reforms .
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