Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |
| 2 | Churchill in office would never have wasted time in the smoking room without an audience . |
| 3 | Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform . |
| 4 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 5 | If the timing is right this will mean that any coordination through ‘ background effects ’ will not have sufficient time to become established even by signals travelling at the speed of light . |