Example sentences of "[noun sg] have time " in BNC.

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1 After that the narrative has time only for Jacob .
2 Note : If you lower the pitch attitude too rapidly — before the speed has time to increase — then you will lose height since the lower speeds do not produce enough lift to maintain height with the wings at the lower angle of attack in the normal cruise level flight attitude .
3 Peer of the prison cell has time on his hands
4 The problem of criticising the work in exhibiting societies ' shows is how little space is made available in newspapers for its coverage ; the critic has time to mention a painter or a sculptor , make a brief observation , and then passes on .
5 No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies .
6 Outside , before his grief had time to clot , the wind yearned a different plaint , but it did n't matter .
7 Dot had time to worry .
8 As they came nearer I approached them , before the guard had time to prevent me .
9 And what more practical way of repaying them than to ensure that their own little seedling of bonheur had time to sprout and shoot , to root and burgeon ?
10 Elite performers often launch an attack as soon as the switch-change occurs , suddenly darting forwards with a powerful attack before the opponent has time to re-calculate your distance from him .
11 All that has been said earlier about the need to have time to take in bad news is obviously not appropriate .
12 It may mean some gentle but very straight talking , if your parent does not realise your need to have time alone with your friends , but if you can not bring yourself to establish this right , you will have precious little hope of organising any other social activities that will give you a break from daily routine .
13 The husband to have time off work to look after the children ,
14 He had toppled over before the Collector had time to catch his heels .
15 There is usually a formal system of discounts , for advertisers spending over a certain level with the station , and perhaps even for early booking , and whenever a station has time to sell which it fears it might fail to dispose of it is possible for the buyer to negotiate on the price .
16 Sedimentation must therefore have been fast enough to bury the tree and solidify before the tree had time to rot .
17 It is doubtful whether the unfortunates impounded in the Lazzaretto had time to concern themselves with the aesthetic niceties of the building , and it can only be hoped that the church offered them some spiritual comfort .
18 If that came , it came later , when the King had time to go over events and perhaps have his grievances kindled .
19 Bearing in mind the need to keep the business rate down , has my hon. Friend had time to glance at a pamphlet entitled ’ The Citizens ' Charter ’ , written in 1921 by one Herbert Morrison , then secretary of the London Labour party , which states that the best way to improve local services is to increase competition ?
20 Has my right hon. Friend had time to see the OECD report on unsatisfactory unemployment levels in France and the clear evidence that its minimum wage policy has served to make unemployment worse ?
21 Has my right hon. Friend had time to notice this week substantial orders from abroad for British Aerospace , Rolls-Royce and Govan Shipbuilders ?
22 Has my right hon. Friend had time to consider the tax implications of an extra £35 billion of spending pledges ?
23 Has my right hon. Friend had time to study the reaction of the CBI to the proposal for a national minimum wage ?
24 Has my right hon. Friend had time to study the important report on occupational pensions by the Select Committee on Social Services ?
25 Has my right honourable friend had time to study the recent annual survey of grant maintained schools which shows that since becoming grant maintained , schools have been able to recruit more teachers , improve their results and offer better facilities for their pupils .
26 Let the other person have time to think and work out what they are saying .
27 There must now be a delay before the next step command is issued , so that the motor has time to execute the first step .
28 Tomorrow , unless you have new technology , you wont have time to figure out how to make the profit .
29 Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities .
30 But 30-year-old Rice has time in hand to erase both marks — then there really will be no doubt about who is the greatest .
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