High time is an idiom which is almost always used in that sentence frame (It's high time X did Y).
Using it outside that frame is grammatical, as Barrie says, but I'd go further than him and describe it as very unusual.
The word time, without the high, may take either frame:
It's time the government took steps.
It's time to take steps.
or even, as Peter Shor suggests
It's time the government takes steps.
though I think that option is unusual.
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