We feel that it it time...

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Jobb, I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but I guess that your question is about intonation and sentence stress. If this is what you mean I might give you my opinion.

I would read the sentence with a little pause after "feel", and I would stress the most important words of the sentence. If you say that it fails to communicate, this can be due to intonation. It sometimes happens when we read aloud a piece. We do not realize that our audience can get bored with a monotonous intonation and they can lose all interest in what we are saying. Thus, it fails to communicate.

This is the way I would say this sentence:

We feel | that it is time to put in place the policies and practices

The words in bold are the stressed ones (add a little emphasis when saying them). I would also try a rising and/or falling intonation and see which one sounds more convicing. Also, you repeat the word "policies" twice. Perhaps you can come up with a synonim and it wouldn't sound repetitive.

Hope this helps. If not, let us now.