Example sentences of "not have 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 If you have not had time to object , contact the planning officer and ask for extra time .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 If Soviet historians have not had time to enter party and state archives , why not publish authoritative foreigners — Isaac Deutscher , E H Carr and Davies himself ?
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible .
9 Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments .
10 Not really , perhaps such beings only recently ( less than 500 years ago ) developed radio communications or space vehicles , and the radio signals or vehicles have not had time to spread very far .
11 ‘ I 've not had time to consider … had other plans … not sure … ’
12 In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 I 've not had time to celebrate but the champagne corks will be popping on Sunday night if we beat Leigh .
16 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 .
17 Launching into the logical approach when someone has not had time or does not have the information to assess your credibility is unwise .
18 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 . ’
19 The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 For much the same market , and although I have not had time to finish it , so far it is very powerful .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 !
26 If they stammer and say they have not had time , the Chairman smiles icily and says that the committee fully understands and is sure that the reports will be available at the next meeting .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 ‘ He may , it 's possible that … ’ the Archdeacon had not had time to formulate the appropriate phrases to describe events .
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