Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state . |
| 2 | Farmer Colin points out that this selfless operation is always carried out with a complete lack of regard for personal safety and reminds the committee that Josh has several times fallen off his load just outside the King 's Head . |
| 3 | With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 . |
| 4 | Kathleen had several times suppressed the thought that if they had telephoned to the doctor half a day earlier , Faith might . |
| 5 | Not that Bobby had much time for sea-bathing . |
| 6 | In her shorthand book , WPC Wright had ample time to write the word that Downes now shrieked ; write it in in long-hand , and in capitals . |
| 7 | It looks as though Richard had some time ago given up his insistence that Angoulême should be inherited by Vulgrin 's daughter Matilda . |
| 8 | GEMMA HAD TEN TIMES THE RISK |
| 9 | The rabbits in front went fast and Hazel had little time to sniff about as he followed . |
| 10 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 11 | Heseltine has little time left . |
| 12 | Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story . |
| 13 | WHEN a rare lung infection ended Jim Henson 's life , his son Brian had little time for grief . |
| 14 | With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else . |
| 15 | He may be an MBE , but Moorhouse has little time for Britain 's sporting establishment . |
| 16 | Cassie had little time to notice much , other than the magnificent hair and the brilliance of the gems , before the woman moved out of sight . |
| 17 | Medicine was riddled with superstition and ignorance and Hahnemann had little time for blood-letting , either by venesection or the application of leeches ; the violent purges with emetics and enemas , aimed at ridding the body of the disease-producing influences ; and the host of concoctions of various substances , many of which , such as arsenic or mercury , were highly toxic . |
| 18 | Wait until you and Bill have some time to yourselves . |
| 19 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 20 | Boyle was one of the few Tories for whom Crosland had any time . |
| 21 | But Lisa had less time for her , and was meeting new people , refining a way of living that even a year ago she would have claimed to despise . |
| 22 | Even in the off-season , McBride has little time to relax . |
| 23 | London has three times the national percentage of GPs over 65 , twice the proportion of single-handed GPs and a higher incidence of large lists . |
| 24 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 25 | While Mao controlled barely 1m people in Yan'an , Mr Deng had five times that number in Taihang , a far more economically successful region . |
| 26 | GE of the USA had ten times the back-up staff and resources of EMI and were on first name terms with the key people in the medical world . |
| 27 | Venturi has busy time ahead with Renault 's planned V6 to fit into convertible ( above ) and launch of huge eight-seater Parcours ( right ) with its 32-valve Merc V8 |
| 28 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 29 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 30 | Jasper had several times mentioned Muriel , and this could have given Alice a clue , if her dislike of Muriel did not always rise promptly in her , preventing her from hearing what she might have done . |