Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 2 | Now that the calls are almost constant , allowing little time for relaxation and getting to know other volunteers , the group is having to explore the possibilities of support groups and regular discussion weekends . |
| 3 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 4 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 5 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |
| 6 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |
| 7 | Make some time for yourself See Chapter 3 ( section on assertiveness , p. 96 ) |
| 8 | He had a brilliant technical mind but found little time for people . |
| 9 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 10 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 11 | He retains the influence , if not the constitutional power , of a feudal monarch , has little time for Dr Mahathir and is related by marriage to the leader of Semangat '46 . |
| 12 | The aggressiveness and competitiveness of capitalism has little time for his Christian sensibilities . |
| 13 | And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state . |
| 14 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 15 | David Pool has little time for the mystification of artists and their art , and his sole intent is to see the momentum of improvement roll of regardless of fragile egos . |
| 16 | Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners . |
| 17 | He may be an MBE , but Moorhouse has little time for Britain 's sporting establishment . |
| 18 | Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics . |
| 19 | Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women . |
| 20 | This procedure is most suitable for bills that do not raise issues on which parties automatically disagree ; to use select committee-type sittings on such a bill would be to provide further time for repetition of standard partisan arguments . |
| 21 | This is not to say that she has much time for the developers ' current products . |
| 22 | Determination alone does not get you through life , and these were becoming hard times for me . |
| 23 | As part of our programme to outlaw cruelty to wild mammals , we will allow a free vote in the House of Commons on a proposal to ban the hunting of live quarry with hounds and , if that is passed , provide parliamentary time for the necessary legislation . |
| 24 | Those who want equal time for creation science in biology classes might as well make similar demands for Flat Earth theory in astronomy classes . |
| 25 | Elections to the 450-seat National Assembly were postponed following the Assembly 's decision on July 5 to extend its five-year mandate by a further year , in order to provide more time for it to study improvements to the one-party state . |
| 26 | Who in this room would be willing to work full time for the equivalent of benefit plus ten pounds ? |
| 27 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 28 | The train was slow and stopped several times for no reason we knew of and with no apparent likelihood of continuing . |
| 29 | Following McDougall 's death in 1961 he agreed to become Chairman , but he was unable to find enough time for the demands of this office and resumed the less onerous duties of the Presidency in 1965 . |
| 30 | Mogul was fined several times for pollution offences . |