Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] no time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 2 | The body had been covered by a thin layer of soil as was the practice when a soldier was killed in action and there was no time to move him to the rear . |
| 3 | Their school was nine miles from Mbaga and there was no time after school finished in the evening for the teacher and his wife to come and return home before dark . |
| 4 | The rules demanded that a hundred games had to be played within 24 hours ; there was no time for sleep and only 20- minute breaks were allowed for snacks . |
| 5 | Flying in the face of the facts , he prophesied that the economic crisis was so close that there was no time to build the party : the RCP must join the Labour Party , whose working class members , given Trotskyist leadership , would become revolutionary under the pressure of events . |
| 6 | But with the Gulf and other problems pressing , Mr Kaifu argued that there was no time to break in a new foreign minister . |
| 7 | There was no time for any formalities . |
| 8 | But there was no time to think about that . |
| 9 | We had no telephone , and in any case there was no time to call a doctor . |
| 10 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 11 | There was no time to probe for injuries . |
| 12 | There was no time to ask you to do the designing . |
| 13 | One school , premising that the cosmos is ungenerated and indestructible , declares that the human race has always existed , and there was no time when it began to reproduced itself . |
| 14 | There was no time to lose . |
| 15 | There was no time to lose . |
| 16 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 17 | There was no time to lose . |
| 18 | The work was interesting but not so demanding that there was no time for anything else . |
| 19 | There was no time to feel regretful when Greg and his family left , for we were to fly to Hong Kong on January 14th . |
| 20 | There was no time pressure , so the data should reflect considered judgements , rather than on-line processing . |
| 21 | To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . |
| 22 | There was no time for laggards . |
| 23 | When Bloomsbury House or a regional committee acted as a Labour Exchange , it was a case of take it or leave it — there was no time for career advice . |
| 24 | There was no time to send it by ship , so with the help of B & F Aircraft , another sponsor and an $8,000 fee , it was freighted in a B747F . |
| 25 | By then , the fuses were short , and there was no time to be nice about quietness . |
| 26 | There was no time for more . |
| 27 | But there was no time to rub two thoughts together before the square of light was partially blotted out by the Captain 's bulk . |
| 28 | There was no time … no time at all . |
| 29 | Written questions had been invited , and 40 were received on a wide variety of subjects , which meant there was no time for extras from the floor , although the audience did contribute some penetrating comment . |
| 30 | There was no time to pander to Toby 's sensitivities . |