Example sentences of "be time [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . |
| 2 | But perhaps it may regretfully be time to demolish our bothies — their unique charm and tradition destroyed by the greedy — another casualty like that on the consciences of the cairnbuilding , memorial erecting , road bulldozing and ‘ 100 best walks ’ brigade . |
| 3 | In half an hour it would be time to take her loaves out of the oven : the only drawback to her new business was that it meant getting up early every single morning of the year . |
| 4 | If you do this during a landing , there will not be time to realise your error . |
| 5 | It seemed to be time to play his ace in this particular trick . |
| 6 | This means there will be time to get everything down but that your brain will have to work at full speed and concentration to analyse all the words . |
| 7 | I do n't carry a dinghy because I ca n't see there 'd be time to get it out — and subsequent events were n't about to prove me wrong . |
| 8 | I was just wondering if there would be time to fetch you down here before lunch . |
| 9 | If you are suffering pangs of remorse because of some unintentional action in the past , do n't you think it might be time to tell yourself that you will be more careful in the future — and let the guilt go ? |
| 10 | still be time to set my house in order . |
| 11 | Daube argued several years ago that ‘ it is time to revise our legal construction … of surgery in general ’ , and criticized the fact that it was still considered an assault rendered lawful by consent . |
| 12 | After this build-up of the neocortex as the organ endowing us with superior mental functions , it is time to see what messages are actually passed along its nerve fibres . |
| 13 | Having made your choice , it is time to take your puppy home . |
| 14 | Dr Howe , who has treated Tony for the past four years , said : ‘ It has been discussed endlessly in the newspapers and I think it is time to let it be . ’ |
| 15 | When you have a version of the report that is nearly acceptable it is time to test it . |
| 16 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 17 | Time spent puzzling how to avoid these problems is time wasted which you could use for looking around more . |
| 18 | Once you have worked with Ami Pro on a given type of document for a reasonable period it is time to define your own palette for that type of document . |
| 19 | Although production will continue for many years yet , I feel it is time to record what historical production data is available before records are lost and memories fade . |
| 20 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 21 | It is time to restore it . |
| 22 | It is time to promote ourselves and if that makes us pornographers , too bad . |
| 23 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 24 | Surely it is time to ask what are the Russians waiting for ? |
| 25 | Perhaps it is time to ask ourselves whether the notion of treatment by opposites , which has held the stage for so long , is indeed the false path that Hahnemann considered it to be . |
| 26 | until it is time to do something with them . |
| 27 | ‘ Martina has to give serious thought to whether it is time to review her tennis career . |
| 28 | Now it is time to shake yourself free from the gentle form of the dove . |
| 29 | Yet when a wisdom becomes as conventional as this one , it is time to question it and even to think the opposite . |
| 30 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |