Example sentences of "and [pron] be [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister of State is not yet the Foreign Secretary and there is little time left for him to become Foreign Secretary . |
| 2 | Instead , local legislation in various local authority areas imposed such obligations , and there were varying time limits as to flow soon before the date of the proposed procession notice was required . |
| 3 | The provision of home recordings has provided important benefits : the validity of parental observations was objectively determined ; a log of compliance with home recording was obtained ; and there were fewer time constraints on its use . |
| 4 | The imperial preference aspect was important because it might arrest the trends pulling the Empire apart ; reciprocity had shown the danger and there was little time left to halt the slide . |
| 5 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 6 | And it 's some time since I was in Paris . ’ |
| 7 | But you 're not a child any more , you see , and it 's high time you … ’ |
| 8 | It is a little close to Christmas , but that seems a good excuse for a party and it 's high time we entertained some of our friends . |
| 9 | The bloke 's records are all rubbish and it 's high time you all admitted it . |
| 10 | ‘ I does know it — and it 's high time you was thinking of getting wed , my girl . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And it was high time she retired . |
| 19 | Sadly , over the years , it has been far too easy for men such as Beck to infiltrate the sloppy system used by many local authorities and it was high time that the Government took steps to prevent further scandals . |
| 20 | He was twenty-one — a man — and it was high time he started living his life to the full . |
| 21 | He was taking an unholy delight in her discomfiture and it was high time that he was taken down a peg . |
| 22 | The old man had spoiled her and it was high time that she faced facts . |
| 23 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 24 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 25 | The city was in mourning for Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon ( first wife of the Dauphin Louis ) and it was some time before the prospect of playing at court arose . |
| 26 | Which only set Nigel off more , and it was some time before he could attempt an explanation . |
| 27 | He had been a reporter then and it was some time after their first meeting that he had begun his campaign to highlight the plight of the poor . |
| 28 | This only seemed to exasperate the situation and it was some time before order was restored . |
| 29 | He looked small in the crush and it was some time before the order got through . |
| 30 | Then his lips found hers again and it was some time before either said anything at all . |