Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be no time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Library managements might plead that there is no time for a highly staff-intensive activity such as stock revision , but the low priority given to an activity of such fundamental importance is disconcerting .
2 This bodily preparation needs to occur so quickly that there is no time for conscious thought , the caveman does not have time to talk himself into this state of readiness .
3 ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen .
4 The work was interesting but not so demanding that there was no time for anything else .
5 I have raised the matter many times and while Ministers agreed that legislation was needed , they said that there was no time for it .
6 I felt that it was no time for living dangerously .
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