Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 2 | I have waited hours here , usually on the north side , until called forward to the ferry boat and never regretted the delay ; anyone with an eye for impressive beauty will not regard time spent at Kylesku as wasted . |
| 3 | Sayre intentionally did not include time and movement information in his encoding scheme . |
| 4 | Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery . |
| 5 | If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) . |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman did not provide time for such a debate because he did not want to embarrass the Tory party so close to a general election . |
| 7 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 8 | Although we will not spend time on it , ‘ external culture ’ enters our sample firm in the form of enormous variety — personnel on a production line speaking ten or more languages other than English , for instance . |
| 9 | You do n't not spend time on someone just because they are n't about any longer . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , Jens and Hanne are dairy farmers and can not spend time away from their stock to find him and try to make him see sense . ’ |
| 11 | Do not use time as an excuse , he wrote . |
| 12 | Most hobbies cost some money , some a great deal , why not occupy time with machine knitting ? |
| 13 | Dummy activities are actions which do not incur time , but need to be shown to ensure the logic of the network . |
| 14 | In both cases this is a real emergency , because in the event of a cable break the pilot does not have time to realise what is wrong , and he may well stall and spin if he flies by attitude and tries to turn without checking the actual speed . |
| 15 | He did n't like the sound of that much , so he changed his mind and said he might not have time , anyway , after his other reading in a church hall . |
| 16 | Some commentators get so excited about identifying the stuff with an excretion of insects living on twigs of the tamarisk , that they do not have time for much else . |
| 17 | This sharp differentiation , and the various impulses and societal shifts which encouraged it ( which unfortunately we do not have time to go into here ) was quite different from the situation which pertained t.n earlier Hebrew history . |
| 18 | If you do not have time to prepare breakfast it should not matter . |
| 19 | What if one day you just do not have time ? |
| 20 | Even if you do not have time to go in , at least note the quality of the window grilles . |
| 21 | He realized full well that he stood no chance of getting further reinforcements , and anyway he would not have time to train them . |
| 22 | When a melt of any kind is cooled rapidly , it does not have time to sort its atoms out into the ordered atomic structures of mineral crystals . |
| 23 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
| 24 | This technique is only used when a person is dangerously ill and his own blood would not have time to develop the antibodies . |
| 25 | Three o'clock — I just finish off everything that I did not have time to do . |
| 26 | Reply : The Premier 's deputy secretary Jonathan Haslam replied : ‘ As I am sure you appreciate , particularly after recent events , the PM 's schedule is such that he simply does not have time to contribute to your magazine . |
| 27 | The range of fabrics which can be knitted is amazing , but so often we do not have time to explore them . |
| 28 | The organ grinder , however , did not have time to answer , because the drunken women had pushed his organ which began to roll down the hill . |
| 29 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 30 | Remember all this well , so that you do n't get it wrong on the night ; you may not have time for a second performance . |