Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , above the placard speed a severe gust can raise the loads on the wings and cause damage before the weak link has had time to break and relieve the situation . |
| 2 | The first was tackled in a way that was to set the pattern — a devastating technique that the Prince has used time and again : bringing people together who would not normally meet . |
| 3 | In the first extract ( I ) , the rich lexis and well-organised structure are indications that the writer has taken time in the construction , and possibly reconstruction after several rewritings , of the final product . |
| 4 | Thirty is when you decide it 's not on that your hubby has got time to watch the football — or the polo — and have a drink with the lads while you run from children to job to domestic chores like some demented nursemaid on speed . |
| 5 | If a group arrives in the morning before the housekeeping department has had time to clean and service all the rooms , then the group must be made comfortable whilst waiting to gain access to their rooms . |
| 6 | Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) : ‘ We 'll discuss this again after the department has had time to consider it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't fear that , Miss Mackenzie ; I 'm convinced you 'll be back up that ladder before the ambulance has had time to drive away . ’ |
| 8 | Occasionally the stall is recognised by the pilot so that a preventative movement can be made before any serious wing-drop has had time to develop . |
| 9 | At least the enemy had taken time to bury the soldiers , but what a way to go ; dead and buried in a ditch hundreds of miles from home . |
| 10 | No , we 'll , we 'll do it together later when mummy 's got time to sit and help you alright ? |
| 11 | The home had set times for the toilet : 9am , 3pm , and 9pm . |
| 12 | The author has had time to consider and reflect , so that descriptions , interpretations and evaluations will have been carefully formulated . |
| 13 | When water has had time to fill tanks and flows continuously from HWT close tap |
| 14 | When the glue has had time to dry take a small inked roller and roll across the items . |
| 15 | At first the Athenians and Inaros were brilliantly successful , as revolts from Persia often were , initially — before the Great King had had time to mobilize a feudal force from nothing . |
| 16 | Since , ultimately , the law has to be stated authoritatively , there is a case for passing a statute , once experience of the working of the Code has had time to show up any problems there may be . |
| 17 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 18 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 19 | Amis has taken time to rehearse the arguments about politics hijacking literature , and in the end the novel may even surprise some readers with its air of amused tolerince : ‘ Even bad poetry had to exist , if only to heighten good poetry by contrast , to make the good poets shine out as even bette . ’ |
| 20 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 21 | Certain steps , poses and gestures are bound to recur because tradition has demonstrated time and again that technically there are certain sure ways of giving the design dimension , variety and texture . |
| 22 | That , cynics claim , is why the Treasury has marked time : had the electricity industry still been firmly in the public sector , an 8% rate-of-return requirement would have embarrassingly undermined the government 's plans for capital-hungry nuclear-power stations . |
| 23 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 24 | Management as local activity has taken time to distance itself from the field of administration which belonged , as recently as the 1980s , to varying tiers of government rather than to institutions . |
| 25 | Yeah they use well mum and dad 's got time oh we 'll share it with the kids |