Example sentences of "have not had time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | has n't had time to shave . |
| 7 | Clare has seen it , although she probably has n't had time to read it fully . |
| 8 | She has n't had time to have any freedom yet . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 12 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He may , it 's possible that … ’ the Archdeacon had not had time to formulate the appropriate phrases to describe events . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Loretta was irritated ; she had not had time to think that far ahead . |
| 19 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 20 | Apart from the unfamiliarity of the entrances and exits and the other customary problems for the cast , Peter Hickton had not had time to complete the lighting plot , so much of that was being done in the course of the run , which meant endless waits while new lighting settings were agreed . |
| 21 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Fru Blicher continued , ‘ We 've not had time to print Herr Eberhardt 's programme — in any case , he wants this to be a somewhat informal occasion — so Herr Eberhardt will introduce each of his songs himself . |
| 25 | I 've not had time to celebrate but the champagne corks will be popping on Sunday night if we beat Leigh . |
| 26 | This year , we 've not had time to integrate teaching and assessment of core skills into vocational areas . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've not had time to consider … had other plans … not sure … ’ |
| 28 | He simply had n't had time to lay one of his spectacular contingency plans or clever traps . |
| 29 | The coffee made by that blasted mother 's boy Sartini had been like water as usual and the Brigadier himself had n't had time to go home and shave . |
| 30 | She had n't had time to notice them before . |