Example sentences of "[vb pp] that the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it was soon decided that the time was not right to consider this as well . |
| 2 | Even before the blazer , I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor . |
| 3 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 4 | Its San Jose , California-based developer , Software Systems Inc , has now decided that the time is right to provide a lower cost version , which runs on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations . |
| 5 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 6 | Whilst it is accepted that the department has done exceptionally well in getting every member of the school who does Art to provide themselves with pencils , rubbers and sketch pads , it is felt that the time is now right for the department to expand this and push for pupils to provide paints for themselves . |
| 7 | He may also have felt that the time was not ripe for any definitive initiative . |
| 8 | He also signalled China 's willingness to improve ties with Vietnam following a secret contact in September and the visit of the Vietnamese Vice-Premier , Senior Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap , who had said that the time was " ripe " for better relations [ see pp. 37712-3 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We shall be told that the time has been equally shared between the three parties , but there are many ways of belling the cat , and the timing of the viewpoints and the batting order can achieve the results they intend . |
| 11 | Developments included the realistic estimation of 11 million years as the likely time required for the production of an erosion surface and Linton ( 1957 ) had shown that the time scale used by some as a frame of reference for landscape evolution was too long . |
| 12 | Warner and Wallis would have judged that the time was ripe for a film about human justice , that there would be a market for a film depicting the problems of a strike in a coal-town and in an ethnic community , and that any criticism of the subject-matter would either be good for business or would be offset by popular and critical acclaim for the acting of that increasingly marketable star Paul Muni . |
| 13 | In relation to recording on the file it was held that time spent in preparing typed file and attendance notes should be recorded , and will be recovered , provided that the time spent is not excessive . |
| 14 | Other countries have used systems of this kind with success and the Government have concluded that the time has come to ask for powers to adopt a system of early release on licence in this country . |
| 15 | Forster and Olbrei found that there was a significant correlation ( .65 ) between the time taken to respond to a plausible sentence and its implausible equivalent , and hence concluded that the time taken to analyse a syntactic structure was approximately constant , and independent of semantic constraints . |
| 16 | On Feb. 12 a Soviet Foreign Ministry official confirmed that members of the Warsaw Treaty organization had " concluded that the time has come to take steps to wind up the military structure of the organization " and that the final decision would be taken at ministerial , and not summit , level . |
| 17 | However , Furness and District reluctantly concluded that the time had come for the introduction of an annual limit ; whilst Cardiff and District suggested that the question of re-insuring the compensation fund liability be reconsidered . |
| 18 | Bede too believed that the time of Doomsday is concealed from mankind . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And Neville , through Widgery and the Italian journalist Angelo Quattrochi had realized that the time was apparently right to think about fighting in the streets . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , who had previously held that the time was not yet ripe for ERM entry , said at a press conference later on Oct. 5 that it was now possible because of " incontestable signs that the economy is working in the way we intended it to " . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the time of delivery was of the essence of this contract , but that this stipulation was waived by the defendant 's requests for delivery after the due date which would have estopped him had there been delivery within the extended time . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that The Times can only bear the cost of its price cut with the aid of subsidies from other parts of Rupert Murdoch 's empire . |
| 24 | Some have suggested that the time of death should be postdated to the ninth century , arguing that while the reign of Charlemagne ( 768 – 814 ) saw a last futile effort to revive a state-run fiscal system , rigor mortis finally set in with the new barbarian onslaughts of Vikings and Saracens . |