Example sentences of "is [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hours is ample time , but walkers with interests in botany , geology or archaeology will be sorely tempted to linger . |
| 2 | They become entangled in such a way that it is very rare for any to wriggle free , and while there is ample time to collect them at relative leisure they should nonetheless be collected as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | You 'll find a day is ample time to apply your stencil all around a medium-sized room . |
| 4 | The point of this simple experiment is to show you that although there are only 168 hours in a week there is ample time for private study provided you are prepared to organise your life . |
| 5 | This is work , this is non-work time . |
| 6 | the belief that there is adequate time to search and deliberate before a decision is made . |
| 7 | Ideally this type of assessment begins when the patient is admitted to hospital so that there is adequate time for planning if special arrangements have to be made prior to the patient going home . |
| 8 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 9 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 10 | It is high time to abandon that caricature , too long perpetuated by dictionary definitions such as the one you quote from Chambers , both for the sake of historical justice and because , in the present as in the past , anti-Pharisaism and anti-Judaism have a nasty way of feeding on each other . |
| 11 | To quote one of your letter writers : ‘ It is high time to abandon that caricature , too long perpetuated by dictionary definitions ’ . |
| 12 | It is high time , therefore , to promote a test ban on this particular brand before dissemination has gone too far to be reversed . |
| 13 | Mrs Richards says it is high time to rid Austin , the capital city , of practices that critics say stink as much as Mr Pilgrim 's chicken-processing plants . |
| 14 | It is high time for a collection from new voices . |
| 15 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
| 16 | It is high time that such comment should be permitted together with the necessary alteration to the words of the caution . |
| 17 | It is high time that the concept of imagination was separated from that of the loose , the soft , the non-examinable , and the ‘ standardless ’ . |
| 18 | In the light of this kind of development it is high time to drop the distinction between ‘ education ’ and ‘ training ’ and to refuse to use these words as part of our educational vocabulary . |
| 19 | ( Clearly , it is high time in this essay that we did just that ! ) |
| 20 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 21 | It is high time that more of you spoke up in protest against us whenever we invite you to do that which is impractical or inappropriate . |
| 22 | IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are . |
| 23 | It is high time we renewed our acquaintance with young Benjamin Titford , William Charles 's younger brother . |
| 24 | It is high time Eubank put on another world-class performance , but opponents such as Gimenez simply do n't fire him up enough to produce his best . |
| 25 | It is high time for this neglect to yield to a more open discussion of these issues and a more positive approach . |
| 26 | It is high time we ceased to allow people to talk about rugby union as a minority sport — even a post-World Cup modest club match on Rugby Special rated two million viewers . |
| 27 | It is high time the variable quality of international referees and the anomalies that abound in interpretation were sorted out by an International Board Survey . |
| 28 | I feel it is high time B/T were called to account over their disgraceful policy of charging premium rate for calls to mountain weather forecasts like Climbline and Mountaincall . |
| 29 | It is high time politics entered into this subject . |
| 30 | And indeed it is high time to think about lunch . |