Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hangmen were n't full time . |
| 2 | Hangmen were n't full time . |
| 3 | There was not much time for that after the summer of 1946 , for in September I travelled north along the Welsh borders to join the RAF . |
| 4 | But there was not much time for rows because he was conducting the Halpern case which eventually sent three youths to prison for the torture and murder of a crippled old woman . |
| 5 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 6 | At this point the historic West Saxon kingdom of the eighth century could have been stillborn or at least confined to political insignificance beyond Selwood , but there was not enough time for Wulfhere to consolidate his position south of the Thames before a major crisis confronted him . |
| 7 | During Question Time today and this involves your position , Mr. Speaker the Secretary of State said that he could not deal adequately with the question on the Order Paper in the name of my Hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) because there was not enough time in a parliamentary answer . |
| 8 | In the hot big bang model described above , there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another . |
| 9 | As a result Finance Ministers agreed in Luxembourg on Oct. 9 to prolong the existing system " for a limited period " , on the grounds that there was not enough time before January 1993 to introduce another , more effective one . |
| 10 | Often there was not enough time to share decision making with subordinates . |
| 11 | He added that the demands imposed on teachers by the National Curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 12 | He added that demands placed on teachers by the national curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 13 | If Wynne-Jones had an answer to that question , he was not given time to express it . |
| 14 | Mind you , with all the services we had to go to , there was n't much time for it either . |
| 15 | ‘ Hey Babe ’ was very rushed , there was n't much time . |
| 16 | There was n't much time left — certainly not enough time to be taking the wrong tack with old Cohen and antagonising him . |
| 17 | Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing . |
| 18 | And judging by the calls we got after the programme , there was n't much time . |
| 19 | Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long . |
| 20 | Christmas Eve and New Year 's Eve are two double time cos he wanted me to work and I would n't cos it was n't double time . |
| 21 | ‘ I was n't rude but I was n't given time to explain . ’ |
| 22 | She wanted to explain that they needed more time but of course there was n't more time , not immediate time . |
| 23 | It was n't visiting time . |
| 24 | ‘ But it was n't wasted time . |
| 25 | There was n't any time to think . |
| 26 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 27 | There was n't any time to repulse him either with words or actions as his seeking mouth found her tender lips . |
| 28 | The pictures had to be shared , but there was n't enough time now . |
| 29 | ‘ Saving our skins , ’ she said holding fast to the plans that begged to be told , because there still was n't enough time . |