Example sentences of "have not [vb pp] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 2 | However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability . |
| 3 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 4 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 5 | Launching into the logical approach when someone has not had time or does not have the information to assess your credibility is unwise . |
| 6 | Mark Flannagan , formerly Director of ASH Workplace Services , has been promoted to this post and has not had time to snatch a wink of sleep since . |
| 7 | There were other stated symptoms , too , including singing or chanting odd songs — and what child has not spent time happily singing something totally incomprehensible to a parent ? |
| 8 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |
| 9 | He is very meticulous and quite demanding , and has n't got time for people who do n't know their job . ’ |
| 10 | And I think I think the reconciliation what he 's actually saying is he has n't got time to recheck those reconciliations before this weekend 's deadline that 's what it appears to be . |
| 11 | Well Harold was supposed to be , he has n't got time . |
| 12 | Clare has seen it , although she probably has n't had time to read it fully . |
| 13 | She has n't had time to have any freedom yet . ’ |
| 14 | has n't had time to shave . |
| 15 | I do n't do I 've not got time , I start reading and then it 's , it 's we 're doing something else |
| 16 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 17 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 18 | The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge . |
| 19 | Well I said , I 've got to , I said , I ca n't I have n't got time to talk to anybody , I said , I 've got to shift it . |
| 20 | I do but I 've got so many other things to do I have n't got time . |
| 21 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 22 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 23 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 24 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 25 | The publication day of Hank Stych 's book went unremarked in Tollemarche , mainly because the only bookseller in the town had not had time to unpack his new stock , and book reviews were featured only once a month in the Tollemarche Advent and then only in an obscure corner of an inner page . |
| 26 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 27 | Even the Republic had felt far from confident about forming a long-term colonial policy ; Cromwell 's Council had invited merchants to say what should be done , but had not had time to do much more than conquer Jamaica and revive the East India Company . |
| 28 | In the event , part of the collection was left to the museum at Charleroi , near Magritte 's home town ; another part went to the Pompidou Centre 's Musée National d'Art Moderne , while the painter 's remaining works , house and surrealist library were left ownerless : his widow had not had time to stipulate how they should be divided . |
| 29 | She could never understand what he did with it , where it went — he had not had time for … that other life of his , he had been with Bert , with Jack ! |
| 30 | But they had not had time to implement then when , on 1 February 1979 , the ayatollah returned to Teheran in triumph like Lenin to the Finland Station . |