Example sentences of "[vb past] neither [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 2 | At Bletchley I had begun to satisfy , however pathetically and inadequately , a desire to see the world about me , but then had neither the time nor the money nor the opportunity for anything other than very restricted local journeys . |
| 3 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 4 | No doubt the wall was lower at some point — down at the edge of the parkland , perhaps — but she had neither the time nor the inclination to find out . |
| 5 | To be as fair to her as is possible , it can at least be said that the work which she had plagiarized on her behalf ( since she had neither the time nor the inclination to copy it herself ) was generally of good standard . |
| 6 | The truth is that Cortot had neither the time nor the inclination to polish his performances to a high degree of perfection . |
| 7 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 8 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |