Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reception by the sisters was heart-warming , and there was regret all round that he could not stay any time , that haste was vital . |
| 2 | Dorothy decided she had better not laugh this time , though she wanted to , so she said cautiously : ‘ I do n't know , Hank . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah well Mr Chairman I would formally like to motions my when the study one and the problems of this having to despite that the District Council have six and it 's much further I again I think specification of erm what we do need despite what we should not need this time , this time later . |
| 4 | The development , administration and interoperability modules do not include run- time versions of Unix . |
| 5 | ( This does not include travelling time to and from school . ) |
| 6 | I might not win this time . |
| 7 | It is all very well for companies like Rentokil , or Guinness , which said it could not act this time round but was considering similar action at a later date , to compensate their shareholders . |
| 8 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 9 | Clarac did not hesitate this time . |
| 10 | He got a sheet of paper about that long to all concerned we have no salt , pepper , mustard , vinegar , our clock does not keep good time , er |
| 11 | Do you really not like spending time with me ? |
| 12 | Although we need not spend much time on it , it is important to be clear that Marxism is atheistic . |
| 13 | Feminist psychologists acknowledge that low-status , female-identified traits , like nurturance and sociability , are also important for both sexes ; but they do not spend much time comparing men with women on these traits . |
| 14 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 15 | As a profession , we in medicine do not spend much time thinking about our philosophy . |
| 16 | We will not spend much time on the syllabic pronunciation of these consonants . |
| 17 | It is a pity that we can not spend more time just looking at some of the issues — for example , clause 28 , which is quite important — which affect adult education . |
| 18 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 19 | We will not spend more time here on looking at the problems , but go on to look at some generalisations about suffixes and stress . |
| 20 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 21 | For example , he tends to pitch in and sort things out for himself and does not spend enough time on man-management . |
| 22 | Children generally suffer from too much control between school and television and do not spend enough time developing on their own . |
| 23 | Officials are already concerned he does not spend enough time there to qualify for the 12 per cent tax laws . |
| 24 | She revelled in the benefits of being married to the Queen 's second son and did not spend enough time on her duties . |
| 25 | They were ill-informed in the sense that the conceptual basis for understanding such meaning was not carefully theorised , as well as in the more obvious sense that the travellers often simply did not know the language and did not spend enough time living in a particular society . |
| 26 | He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children , and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services . |
| 27 | However , some things simply do not work first time out . |
| 28 | Councillor Magnus Flaws added : ‘ I can not see any reason why this will not work this time . ’ |
| 29 | I would not calculate this time , this time I would try to select my route in a random way . |
| 30 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |