Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting . |
| 2 | I hope that the Ministers will seriously consider that the time has come to tidy up that particular aspect of health and safety . |
| 3 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 4 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 5 | Where an overlap of shifts exists , the nurse in charge should ensure that the time available is used to good effect . |
| 6 | If it is true that the Japanese have pardoned the politicians implicated in the Recruit affair , Mr Takeshita may indeed feel that the time is ripe for his return . |
| 7 | As there has recently been a revision of codes , I am bound to say that my right hon. Friend may feel that the time is not right for a review . |
| 8 | The success of the group will improve if the time limits are sufficiently elastic to allow extra time for all the formalities . |
| 9 | So you can see that the time constant involved is very small . |
| 10 | Although most of the scientific jottings meant little to him , Dalgliesh could see that the time at which Lorrimer had started and finished each analysis had been carefully noted . |
| 11 | She could remember though the time when she realised that she must , for love of them both , never let them know that she was aware of it . |
| 12 | In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him . |
| 13 | We must conclude that the time zone niche has not delivered the benefits that were held out for it when LIFFE was established . |
| 14 | We must recognize that the time has come for a national crusade against pornography . |
| 15 | As Christians we must surely wonder if the time for Enlightenment man is not up . |
| 16 | Sir Fred Catherwood , a senior Tory member of the European Parliament , said the Prime Minister 's insistence that Britain should join when the time is right had become ‘ a bit of a joke ’ . |
| 17 | We stapled a piece of blue baize around the door and , hey presto , there was a neat little portable platform which we could produce when the time came , looking incredibly efficient . |
| 18 | Unforgivably , all too often relatives who have been assured that their nearest and dearest will not suffer pain find this does not happen when the time comes . |
| 19 | This could only happen when the time was ripe , which would be when he was worthy . |
| 20 | This will add at least one revolution for every overflow record and will mean that the time to locate a data record , after the data track has been located , will be : where there is an average of m overflow records per track . |
| 21 | In fact , the more serious your role , the more you need to unwind and let yourself go when the time is appropriate . |
| 22 | I could n't let Rosa go when the time came to sell up . |
| 23 | It would also seem that the time before adoption for such children is quite long , that some for whom adoption was the plan will not be adopted even though they will stay with their new families , and that long-term support by specialist workers will be necessary for many of these children . |
| 24 | As for myself , I can not pretend that the time since we last corresponded has been equally fruitful or pleasant . |
| 25 | In this year , the 25th anniversary of Shelter , does the Minister agree that the time is right for him to give effect to the Prime Minister 's boast in his letter of support to Shelter that the Government would employ public expenditure where necessary ? |
| 26 | Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ? |
| 27 | Does he agree that the time has come to put forward with ever greater clarity the kind of Europe which we want and which he has already outlined in his comments ? |
| 28 | Next there is a group of colleagues whom I shall describe as the ‘ patriots ’ , who through love of country and a proper belief in its democratic institutions do not accept that the time has come to deny our nationality . |