Example sentences of "[vb past] that the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haviland and Clark found that the time taken to understand the target sentence was significantly greater in the indirect antecedent condition ( 1016 milliseconds ) than in the direct antecedent condition ( 835 milliseconds ) . |
| 2 | He had smelt burning and realized that the time pencil in one of their bombs had activated . |
| 3 | It also agreed that the time was ripe for a declaration of national policy . |
| 4 | On April 13 the then Oil Minister , Rashid al Amiri , announced that the time needed to extinguish oil fires started by Iraq had recently been estimated to be seven months rather than 24 months [ see also p. 38119 ] . |
| 5 | He argued that the time was now ripe for the application of the positivist method to social phenomena and for the establishment of sociology , a term he seems to have invented . |
| 6 | The substantial minority at The Hague who opposed the plan to send envoys believed that the time was not yet ripe for direct public agitation to stop the war . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | A Muslim foundation that offered more than $3 million for Mr Rushdie 's head added that the time was ripe for the death sentence to be carried out . |
| 9 | He appealed to Miloš to join him , but Miloš judged that the time was inopportune and promptly told the Turkish governor in Belgrade of the plot . |
| 10 | As seen above , the accession of George I provoked widespread unrest throughout much of England and Wales , and given the extensive discontent in Scotland , it seemed that the time might be ripe for a Jacobite rebellion . |
| 11 | Than Tun wound up ; ‘ He solemnly stated that the time for parting of the ways had verily come . ’ |
| 12 | His Uncle Walter declared that The Times was his only link with civilisation . |
| 13 | Painful though it was , she declared that the time would soon come when she would feel it necessary to inspect America for herself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned . |
| 16 | After appointing Thorneycroft as Secretary of State for Defence in July 1962 , Macmillan decided that the time was ripe to take a further step in the gradual process of integrating the management of the Services . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It all stated when Jamie Spence 's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in . |
| 21 | Now , with the expansion of availability of SCOTVEC awards to increasing numbers of candidates , to a wider range of centres and to a greater coverage of occupational areas , SCOTVEC 's Board decided that the time was right to review the quality system which supports our awards to ensure that the system could continue to meet its objectives in the years head . |
| 22 | Bevin , impressed by Soviet intransigence during the foreign ministers ' conference at the end of 1947 , decided that the time had come for a more overt display of Western unity . |
| 23 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 24 | Miliutin either said or implied that the time had passed for half-measures like the Law on Free Agriculturalists of 1803 , the Baltic emancipation of 1816 – 19 and the Law on Obligated Peasants of 1842 . |
| 25 | Holding another general election might entail a general breakdown : Nkrumah again urged that the time was ripe for independence now . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And , when she glanced at her watch , she saw that the time was thirty-two minutes past three . |
| 28 | They felt that the time was ripe for a new approach . |
| 29 | True to his maxim that ‘ Liberty crowns the edifice ’ , Napoleon III now felt that the time was opportune and , as a first step , had granted virtually total freedom of the press and the tight of public meetings . |
| 30 | 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 . |