Example sentences of "that the time have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 2 | We decided eventually that the time had come to rehearse this seriously and he was very happy about it . |
| 3 | The signing of its charter by representatives of 144 electric utilities with working nuclear power stations was a recognition that the time had come to take the secrecy out of nuclear power and prove that there was a worldwide interest in co-operation and information exchange . |
| 4 | Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria . |
| 5 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 6 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 8 | Even before the blazer , I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor . |
| 9 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 10 | Two minutes later I could hardly hear myself , so I smiled ( less warmly , I admit ) and suggested that the time had come for walkies . |
| 11 | It all stated when Jamie Spence 's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart . |
| 12 | The favourable response to Labour 's initiative in circles well removed from the Party 's normal supporters helped to persuade Lloyd George that the time had come for the Government to reassert its authority . |
| 13 | When Largo Caballero resisted Communist pressure to dissolve the POUM and arrest its leaders , the Communists decided that the time had come to get rid of him . |
| 14 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 15 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 16 | Recent improvements in navigation and the expansion of commerce persuaded Bacon that the time had come . |
| 17 | It was probably this advance which persuaded Eleanor that the time had come to join her sons . |
| 18 | Now that the time had come for the depleted garrison to shrink back inside the new fortifications , accommodation had to be found for the ladies displaced from Dr Dunstaple 's house . |
| 19 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 20 | Bickersteth was at pains to make clear that the time had come to discount " scientific " discourses as offering an appropriate professional identity for English studies : |
| 21 | A review of this coverage supports the conclusion that the refusal of tenure to MacCabe was related to a sense among Cambridge traditionalists that the time had come to mount a strong resistance to further incursions by the tendency MacCabe was thought to support . |
| 22 | My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation . |
| 23 | Not satisfied , the Admiralty pressed the issue to the Cabinet and Wilson and Tupper were summoned to appear before a committee of Coalition Ministers , with Balfour in the chair , supported by Sir Edward Carson , Dr Macnamara and Arthur Henderson and faced by the proposal that the time had come for merchant seamen to be conscripted for national service . |
| 24 | Branson wrote to Powell , agreeing that the time had come for a separation . |
| 25 | Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in . |
| 26 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 27 | In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him . |
| 28 | Lucy knew that the time had come for her to admit to the reason for her visit . |
| 29 | Mandela had urged the EC to refrain from lifting any sanctions for two or three months ; he told the ANC consultative conference that the time had come for a " re-evaluation " of sanctions , but the 1,600 delegates voted to push for their retention . |
| 30 | He added that holding the hostages had " given a great service to the cause of peace " but that the time had come to take a final decision on this " humanitarian issue " . |