Example sentences of "be time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 2 | VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . |
| 3 | Look sharpish , and there 'll still be time to whip down to Rose Morris in London 's Denmark Street on Wednesday Nov 18th to catch an Ovation clinic featuring one of the UK 's best-known sessioneers Ian Aitken . |
| 4 | There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was intended to be time to descend , to retire through the covert and to supervise the fast , careful infill of stone that would give them their bridge when the walls fell . |
| 7 | IT will soon be time to prune apple trees and many shrubs and a good pruning saw is an essential tool . |
| 8 | Soon it 'll be time to take a long , hard look at tonight 's menu … what 'll it be ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If you stay here any longer it 'll be time to take the cows in for their evening milking . ’ |
| 11 | If you do this during a landing , there will not be time to realise your error . |
| 12 | " In a moment it will be time to give Mr Hopkins another half ounce of brandy , poor man , " sighed Miriam . |
| 13 | Perhaps there would be time to cook , to bathe … |
| 14 | It must be time to go , maybe to Yugoslavia , East Timor or Iraq , but I suppose they 'll send me back . |
| 15 | Okay , and then by the time you 've done that it 'll be time to go back to the start |
| 16 | Well I thought if I have a walk over there at two then by the time I get back it 'll be time to go and get Christopher wo n't it ? |
| 17 | Because it 'll be time to go in a little while |
| 18 | it 'll be time to go in a minute , no I 'll do it there 's two in there |
| 19 | It seemed there would n't be time to do any prying even if she had the money to go to Chertsey , which she did n't . |
| 20 | It would soon be time to commence hay-making in the Handley Farm pastures . |
| 21 | It could be time to leave , but we shall see , ’ she confided . |
| 22 | However , all too soon it will be time to leave for your homeward journey . |
| 23 | Frejji would there soon , and it would be time to leave . |
| 24 | She stood up and began to gather the plates , remarking as she did so , ‘ When I 've washed these dishes it 'll be time to leave for the hospital . ’ |
| 25 | It may now be time to risk the uncertainty of a split . |
| 26 | Convinced it was London , he invited me to join his campaign convoy the next day : ‘ Afterwards we can eat and there will be time to talk . ’ |
| 27 | There will be time to debate these questions later . |
| 28 | Well , if you poked around the lot every hour , there would n't be time to cover the rest of the beat properly . |
| 29 | Even the biggest of the supermodels accepts that her shelf-life is limited and that , sooner rather than later , it will be time to step away from the catwalk . |
| 30 | It has been stoked primarily by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Russian vice-president , who has warned that it may be time to review Khrushchev 's gift of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 , and by President Kravchuk , a Communist Party boss turned Ukrainian nationalist . |