Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 2 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 3 | The past three months have proved difficult times for community mental health care policy . |
| 4 | Henry , the Marquess of Flaxton had known hard times . |
| 5 | Any attempt to produce the letter for the first time at completion should be resisted and completion delayed until the purchaser has had adequate time to consider the disclosures . |
| 6 | If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information . |
| 7 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 8 | But 60-year-old Bill has hit hard times and said : ‘ I do n't want to sell my memorabilia but at the same time I refuse to sign on the dole — I 'm too proud for that . ’ |
| 9 | Where rejuvenation intervenes before the river has had sufficient time for lateral erosion to form a flat valley floor , there will not be river terraces at the side of the stream but merely breaks of slope in the valley sides ( Fig. 9.6 ) . |
| 10 | Since the Risorgimento in the nineteenth century , when the movement for political unification had taken place , Italy had experienced hard times and many political humiliations , so in 1929 , when Mussolini ended the friction between the Church and the State by signing a concordat with the Vatican , most people really believed that the country was destined for a great future . |
| 11 | Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks . |
| 12 | Peter Evans , the first non-family chairman to be appointed to the liqueur company when he joined late last year , said yesterday that the company had spent considerable time evaluating its needs in the light of its decision to focus on its core business , the production of Drambuie Liqueur . |
| 13 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 14 | Studies of food workers ' skin have shown die-off times within half an hour . |
| 15 | this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children . |