Example sentences of "[verb] little time [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 2 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 3 | David Pool has little time for the mystification of artists and their art , and his sole intent is to see the momentum of improvement roll of regardless of fragile egos . |
| 4 | Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners . |
| 5 | Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women . |
| 6 | The rafters , weary and hungry after their hours of fighting the turbulent Mohaka by paddling their way between rocks and river boulders , spent little time beneath the hot showers and in changing into warm , dry clothes . |
| 7 | Outside Colombo the force was theoretically under the control of government agents who had many other duties and usually spared little time for the police . |
| 8 | Pakistan were 31 without loss by the close , Ramiz Raja ( 20 ) having spent little time on the field so far because of a stomach upset , and that evening Waqar Younis , asked what was the secret behind his late swing , replied , with a grin : ‘ I 'm not telling you that ! ’ |
| 9 | He gave the impression of having little time for the Member , despite Grunte 's many years spent in the motor trade . |
| 10 | He arrived back in Cairo with an action-packed programme to be fulfilled , leaving little time for the bar at Shepherd 's Hotel or for swanning around the night-clubs . |
| 11 | Further , Lorca , a gifted painter and pianist , had little time for the academic qua academe . |
| 12 | Not all Ruth 's time with the other servants was disagreeable , but she quickly found that Millfield 's own staff had little time for the servants of visitors , especially anyone they thought might consider themselves superior . |
| 13 | This may have been characterised by a mystic other-worldliness which had little time for the concerns of this world , and the working out of faith in relation to the everyday challenges of life . |
| 14 | He had little time for the confusion that the Council had appeared to generate in many parts of the Church . |
| 15 | The BUF had little time for the reactionary tone of Die-hard conservatism , and its anti-semitism was derived from social and economic grievances rather than from an ideological tradition . |
| 16 | Dr Jean Robertson , a GP for 26 years , originally had little time for the notion of psychic healing until an experience at the funeral of her nineteen year-old daughter , who died of cancer four years ago . |
| 17 | In particular , like Macaulay two centuries later , he had little time for the Brahmins and their Sanskrit learning : |
| 18 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 19 | She had little time for the slow-witted and the unenthusiastic , and just as she exaggerated the talents of those she loved , she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked . |
| 20 | The Smiths , though , have little time for the live and let live view . |
| 21 | The current Diet session is due to end on June 20th , which leaves little time for the horse-trading that will be necessary . |