Example sentences of "[art] time had " 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 | The time had come . |
| 3 | By now the time had come for me to hand back to these women responsibility to go it alone . |
| 4 | Mr Gorbachev 's clear message was that the time had not yet come to abolish the party 's monopoly of power , but that it might well do so when a new political structure had been worked out , and the present economic crisis overcome . |
| 5 | We decided eventually that the time had come to rehearse this seriously and he was very happy about it . |
| 6 | The Greens were still arguing over whether the time had come to loosen principle a little and elect a leader , a public face , perhaps Sara Parkin , the International Liaison Secretary of the UK Greens as well as the European Greens ' co-ordination co-secretary . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The CPRS paper argued that if the Government were serious about reducing public expenditure , the time had come to consider some radical solutions . |
| 9 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 10 | The second group , of those — even including some Party members — who had previously been apathetic or negatively disposed towards the Party , thought that the time had now come when they could air their feelings . |
| 11 | Perhaps the time had now come to change the emphasis to more efficient production . |
| 12 | Now , however , the time had come to part and Miss Howard was created Countess of Beauregard and established in a desirable residence in the country . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She told herself sternly that the time had passed when sympathy , hope , tender care , even love could have anything to do with the figure on the bed . |
| 17 | Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors : |
| 18 | The time had come ! |
| 19 | In 1942 his son , then a medical student , urged Waksman senior to isolate strains of Actinomyces active against human tubercle bacilli , but he replied that the time had not come yet . |
| 20 | Howard might decide the time had arrived for him to think of retirement . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ All other bands at the time had fifteen syllable names , ’ say Marr . |
| 22 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The farthing was still a useful unit of currency and the coins of the time had a grace and beauty which have since disappeared . |
| 25 | Even before the blazer , I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor . |
| 26 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 27 | Two minutes later I could hardly hear myself , so I smiled ( less warmly , I admit ) and suggested that the time had come for walkies . |
| 28 | The time had come for me to grow up . |
| 29 | But all the while he was learning and soon the time had come when he was no longer satisfied to design for others . |
| 30 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |