Example sentences of "time [coord] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 It is doubtful however that many librarians outside language teaching institutions or areas with serious literacy problems will find the time or the need to consult them .
32 The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them .
33 They have n't the time or the engergy left to provide a sporting outlet for them .
34 Few agencies now have the time or the staff to train new entrants in specialist skills , and research is such a skill .
35 Either I was wrong at the time or the author has dramatically improved .
36 Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind .
37 They probably have neither the time nor the inclination to go through the necessary learning process , and particularly so now that the more modern battery-powered devices are available and are so efficient .
38 Most voters have neither the time nor the inclination to scrutinize position papers or to weigh judiciously the qualities of those who offer themselves in primary elections .
39 The truth is that Cortot had neither the time nor the inclination to polish his performances to a high degree of perfection .
40 The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones .
41 But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music .
42 ‘ I have neither the time nor the inclination to play stupid games , ’ he snapped .
43 She had not had money for clothes , and neither the time nor the inclination to experiment with make-up and other items of fashion .
44 To be as fair to her as is possible , it can at least be said that the work which she had plagiarized on her behalf ( since she had neither the time nor the inclination to copy it herself ) was generally of good standard .
45 No doubt the wall was lower at some point — down at the edge of the parkland , perhaps — but she had neither the time nor the inclination to find out .
46 Although research economists usually make their programs available to others , they have neither the time nor the resources to document and support them properly .
47 Emily felt angry words rise to her lips but quickly suppressed them , this was neither the time nor the place to argue Craig 's innocence .
48 Anyway , this is neither the time nor the place to discuss it .
49 She bit back her anger , for it was neither the time nor the place to start an argument .
50 ‘ As you know , I 'm an adequate , plain cook , but I 've neither the time nor the talent to produce a coq au vin like this one : it was produced by my neighbour , Mrs Neville , who is seventy-five years old and runs a thriving emergency cooking , house-sitting and general crisis-management service for the neighbourhood . ’
51 Tough tackling and controlled possession by Woodmill were the dominant features of extra time and no goals resulted , making the game the first of the tournament to go to penalties .
52 I would have no time and no desire to sit down , and a rod-rest is out of the question .
53 It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made .
54 The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital .
55 He asked himself how accurate his memory in fact was , how much time and a desire to repudiate the past had blocked off .
56 Later there would be a time and a place to consider why this was so .
57 Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent .
58 She was exactly three months pregnant at the time and the shock caused her to miscarry .
59 Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult .
60 People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious .
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