Example sentences of "[is] time [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time to examine the validity of this argument . |
| 2 | He says : ‘ I suggest it is time to examine the structure of the Federation . |
| 3 | THE more scientists write to The Times threatening to vote Labour unless we give them huge sums of money , the more many of us feel it is time to call a halt to science . |
| 4 | AFTER a decade of conflict between councils and the Government , Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , believes it is time to call a truce . |
| 5 | Surely it is time to call a halt to all vehicles on the pavement . |
| 6 | But I do believe it is time to include the people who play rugby in decisions on how they should play rugby . ’ |
| 7 | Women may feed their husbands or lovers with energy and then , after a while , change tack , deciding that it is time to draw the tide of emotional response towards themselves . |
| 8 | In the course of describing how a sentence-as-object approach , based exclusively on syntactic descriptions , fails to account for a variety of sentential structures , Kuno ( 1976 ) concludes that ‘ it is time to re-examine every major syntactic constraint from a functional point of view ’ . |
| 9 | It is time to give the other side a chance . |
| 10 | It is time to give the angels something to sing about . |
| 11 | However , it is time to take a more positive view , and to look at the way early organisms began to combine energy from the sun with gases in the atmosphere and in so doing enabled life as we know it to evolve . |
| 12 | It is time to take a realistic assessment of your partner . |
| 13 | It is time to take a second tea-break in our training as apprentice quantum mechanics . |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend consider that it is time to take a fresh look at the whole question ? |
| 15 | ‘ I assure you , Caroline , when I decide it is time to take a wife , I will choose the correct one for a man in my position . ’ |
| 16 | That we can , must , involve the reader , make the reader participate in the feeling we are trying to represent ; and we learn , too , that there are some subjects , like this one , so powerful in themselves that they require the simplest narration when it is time to take the reader to the climax . |
| 17 | That , according to the IRB , has largely been achieved and now , in the aftermath of the phenomenal success of the World Cup , the IRB think it is time to take the game to the world . |
| 18 | ‘ We think it is time to kill the project off , ’ one official told New Scientist last week . |
| 19 | Castors , as well as being a straightforward mobility device , also help with kitchen hygiene when it is time to clean the floor . |
| 20 | Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest . |
| 21 | If you are serious about this , it is time to set the tables for breakfast . ’ |
| 22 | To the Congress and to all Americans , I say it is time to acclaim a new consensus at home and abroad — a common vision of the peaceful world we want to see . |
| 23 | It is time to turn the tables and consider how the existence of life may have affected the atmosphere of the early Earth . |
| 24 | It is time to treat the spectators as paying customers and look after them . |
| 25 | It is time to leave the capital and have a walk ; let us rise betimes . |
| 26 | After dinner it is time to visit the bakers , hard at work in the mobile field bakery . |
| 27 | Then , recalled Afshar , " The generals and I said , " Majesty , it is time to put a strong man in charge of government . " |
| 28 | Once all the needles are back in working position is time to put the side levers at 0 for plain knitting on all needles . |
| 29 | There is time to put the register right . |
| 30 | Given the inconclusive nature of the evidence on patterns of performance and the negative connotations of ‘ underachievement ’ it is time to drop the term and refer instead to relative levels of achievement . |