Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way .
2 It also agreed that the time was ripe for a declaration of national policy .
3 These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building .
4 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 .
5 Holding another general election might entail a general breakdown : Nkrumah again urged that the time was ripe for independence now .
6 Than Tun wound up ; ‘ He solemnly stated that the time for parting of the ways had verily come . ’
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