Example sentences of "they have no time " in BNC.

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1 Some said they had no listed buildings at risk at all , others that there were so many their hands were full and they had no time to reply .
2 They had no time to gather more .
3 He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon .
4 The person was even at pains to point out while the interview was being conducted that they had no time or interest in politics at all .
5 They had no time to chatter in the lane .
6 They had no time , ’ said Owen bitterly .
7 As such , it should command the attention even of readers who feel that they have no time for the art .
8 But he added : ‘ If , however , it means that managers are so distracted discussing the process of privatisation that they have no time left to manage , then that would be a most unhappy state of affairs . ’
9 Most ‘ organisers ’ swan in at eight-thirty looking important , only to discover there 's a big hitch and they have no time to put it right .
10 They have no time for self-congratulation on their narrow escape .
11 The common tendency of all of these people is to be so concerned with manipulating others to meet their needs that they have no time to minister to their partner 's needs .
12 It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor , so that … the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting .
13 They reason that while Iran and Iraq are fighting each other they have no time to look for adventures elsewhere in the region . ’
14 Perhaps they have no time available nor money to squander on what they consider to be point less pursuits .
15 The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry .
16 Giving them work to do or organised games — so that they have no time to stand and stare … but we must help them to see , to look , to observe .
17 They are committed to abolishing city technology schools , grammar schools and the assisted places scheme , and they have no time for parental choice .
18 It is all too easy for senior executives , especially in times of great pressure on business , to say that they have no time to devote to such activities for the community .
19 you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys
20 No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins .
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