Example sentences of "and it is [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I 'm saying is we need to be very , as soon as you get the stuff , that , if you wan na get anything out of this course at all , and what people do get out of the course , is the fact that by the time they leave here we 've said right , that 's the way we 're going that 's what we 're gon na aim for and it is reasonable time . |
| 2 | Legislation has reduced the barons to serfdom , and it is some time since they seriously hampered leadership policy ( more often , lately , they have helped defeat constituency insurrection ) . |
| 3 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 4 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 5 | Indeed , crevasse rescue is usually banished to the appendices of instruction books on mountaineering skills , and it is high time that an entire book be devoted to unravelling the conundrum of the permanent snows . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues can save money if they do not believe in the nuclear deterrent , and it is high time that they told the country what their priorities are . |
| 7 | It is clear from the above figures that the Liberal Democrats get a rotten hand at each game of election poker and it is high time the system was changed . |