Example sentences of "to have [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband . |
| 2 | I wondered how many adventures we were going to have this time . |
| 3 | Appeals Procedure : Appellants ought to have adequate time in which to prepare their appeals , and an effective opportunity to present a counter-argument to the reasons for refusal . |
| 4 | Children too are well catered for , giving you the chance to have some time off as well . |
| 5 | You 'll want to have some time on your own with him . ’ |
| 6 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 7 | I 've got to have some time alone . |
| 8 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 9 | I think you wanted them to have some time together but … but perhaps not most of the night , ’ she finished on a whisper . |
| 10 | The department has about 70 families and individuals acting as carers to give people chance to develop new interests and greater self-confidence and offering their families a chance to have some time to themselves . |
| 11 | In other words , by planning and timetabling , you organize your present time in order to have future time . |
| 12 | A Duke of Aquitaine in the style of 1176 and 1179 was not going to have much time for customs which reflected the political realities of earlier days . |
| 13 | I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved . |
| 14 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 15 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 16 | Today is a rare opportunity for Ulster Members to have parliamentary time . |
| 17 | Hence , shares trading in the region of 10 are likely , ceteris paribus , to have larger time values than those trading at 1 . |
| 18 | Most people simply do n't make enough time to have physical time together , even it it 's just lying next to each other cuddling . ’ |
| 19 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 20 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 21 | The possibility of obtaining loans from the Phnom Penh museum was then followed up by the curator in Asian art at the ANG , Doctor Michael Brand : ‘ Normally it would have been the ANG 's desire to have more time , but 1992 was chosen because the Japanese were trying to borrow some objects for a show to be held in 1993 . |
| 22 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 23 | You 're going to have more time than us by Christmas . |
| 24 | Professional : The family member may give progressively less attention to his or her own work because of the problems at home and may even change employment in order to have more time or opportunity to supervise the worsening chaos at home . |
| 25 | The skilled sportsman seems to have more time and to do things more slowly than the less skilled one . |
| 26 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 27 | Anybody from forty to forty nine , will pay three percent and then they 've got this strange idea that ladies over the age of fifty are going to have more time off work through illness , so they 're going to charge us four percent , and the men three percent . |
| 28 | He had been a deacon and church treasurer before coming to Darlington and he hopes in retirement to have more time for church work . |
| 29 | We ventured to ask him what he was writing , and he replied that the trouble with being a publisher was that one was so absorbed in other people 's books as to have insufficient time and energy to devote to one 's own . |
| 30 | In all cases it is suggested that the parties must consider whether or not to have strict time limits and ensure that their intention is clearly expressed . |