Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter are useful in that they shorten the time taken to learn the concept . |
| 2 | For instance , there was poor communication with mothers in the weighing room because the nurses were so occupied with the recording of weights that they took no time to explain these to the mothers . |
| 3 | The person was even at pains to point out while the interview was being conducted that they had no time or interest in politics at all . |
| 4 | As such , it should command the attention even of readers who feel that they have no time for the art . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ If , however , it means that managers are so distracted discussing the process of privatisation that they have no time left to manage , then that would be a most unhappy state of affairs . ’ |
| 6 | The common tendency of all of these people is to be so concerned with manipulating others to meet their needs that they have no time to minister to their partner 's needs . |
| 7 | It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor , so that … the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting . |
| 8 | The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry . |
| 9 | Giving them work to do or organised games — so that they have no time to stand and stare … but we must help them to see , to look , to observe . |
| 10 | It is all too easy for senior executives , especially in times of great pressure on business , to say that they have no time to devote to such activities for the community . |
| 11 | Many people make their retirement the occasion for the ‘ holiday of a lifetime ’ , now that they have the time to indulge themselves . |
| 12 | Providing counsellees can be coaxed into exploring these more sensitive areas , and counsellors feel that they have the time and the ability to cope with any resulting distress , then the eventual outcome can be , more often than not , extremely valuable . |
| 13 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 14 | I am sure that they need the time to debate the Bill just as much as anyone else . |
| 15 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 16 | If a man engages skilled advisors to act for him and they mistake the time limit and present it too late he is out . |
| 17 | Some said they had no listed buildings at risk at all , others that there were so many their hands were full and they had no time to reply . |
| 18 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 19 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 20 | Professional counsellors faced with the same client would be clear that it is their task to explore emotions and they allocate the time to do it ; social workers have the mixed task of practical and emotional support but they have a restricted caseload and the time to build up a relationship . |
| 21 | Most ‘ organisers ’ swan in at eight-thirty looking important , only to discover there 's a big hitch and they have no time to put it right . |
| 22 | They are committed to abolishing city technology schools , grammar schools and the assisted places scheme , and they have no time for parental choice . |
| 23 | Kate Collingwood , writing as tutor-organiser for Essex with a Federation Executive highly committed to voluntary participation , felt that ‘ any of my organising work could be done by voluntary branch members if they had the time . |
| 24 | If they had the time they 'd have cut words or letters out of magazines . |
| 25 | It is therefore difficult to train such staff , even if they had the time and inclination to practise the skills necessary . |
| 26 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 27 | Cos they have the time |
| 28 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 29 | She played with the children in their street when they had the time which was n't often and with diplomatic children , a cosmopolitan lot , like mine , only that Constanza was gang-leader . |
| 30 | When they get the time he 'll be , turn up sometime . |