Example sentences of "they [verb] not [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A problem was that they did not have the time to do this ; cells were being charged up and time was running out , every spare moment being needed for preparing and measuring active cells . |
| 2 | ‘ They did n't have the time any more and we started stocking things like cook-in sauces . |
| 3 | Cos they do n't want the time , they do n't want two hours dragging about on their legs . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't get the time to turn out a script of real quality . |
| 5 | The groundmass crystals form when the lava cools on reaching the surface , so the individual crystals are tiny , simply because they do n't have the time to grow any larger in the relatively short period that the flow takes to cool . |
| 6 | They do n't have the time or the resources , and that may be because they do n't have enough people at partner level to cope with the organisation that training involves . ’ |
| 7 | The problem facing surgeons is that they do n't have the time to devote to research . |
| 8 | Many people will say that they do not have the time to pause before acting , but this is a false economy ; if you do not pause then nature has ways of making you stop through illness . |
| 9 | They do not have the time . |
| 10 | Similarly , some organisations do not brief employees properly because they claim they do not have the time to do so . |
| 11 | They do not have the time or energy to take on recruitment seriously . |
| 12 | They do not have the time or energy to take on recruitment seriously . |
| 13 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 14 | There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers . |
| 15 | As sprinter Mike MacFarlane said of his parents ' total lack of encouragement : ‘ It was 'cause they had n't got the time to think about it . ’ |
| 16 | They had not reached the time for sharing out . |
| 17 | They had not taken the time to find out that it was actually the women who traditionally grew the rice for domestic consumption and then exchanged the surplus for other goods or services . |
| 18 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 19 | And if you come from a family that do n't bother and they have n't got the time to show you how to do things , or do things with you , and do n't send you to a nursery school then you start you know just I suppose like what they do is . |
| 20 | But then , Derek said they have n't got the time |
| 21 | Yeah , but you see , they have n't got the time to do |