Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real losers are the ‘ transport poor ’ ( chapter 6 ) , and the reason for this is that official estimates of the costs of key settlement policies do not generally include the time and money costs of individuals . |
| 2 | Recreational players often play in less than ideal conditions and do not always have the time or money available to spend on their rackets . |
| 3 | The head does not always have the time to ponder the price of those personal and professional adjustments which have to be made in the regular course of management . |
| 4 | Again she was a busy young mother who did not really find the time to mourn for the loss of her unborn children . |
| 5 | an opportunity to tackle a problem or task which they might not otherwise have the time or resources to take on ; |
| 6 | I will not therefore take the time of the House with the conventional lengthy explanation of the detail of what are in fact relatively routine pieces of annual business , such as the guaranteed minimum pensions order and the draft contributions rerating order , which are very much in line with their predecessors over a number of years . |
| 7 | That perhaps it 's easier to do in a smaller department , I mean I 've got checkouts , and the majority of my staff are part-time , and I 've only got three full-timers , so it 's quite often the case that at nine thirty , one thirty , five thirty , eight thirty , it 's a case of coming in and then relieving somebody else straight away , you do n't necessarily have the time to spend with them . |
| 8 | I did n't like being called a rowdie , but then I did n't exactly have the time or resources to sue for defamation , if that 's the legal terminology for someone who slags you off in public . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't hardly pass the time of day with me , this is the first time you 've sat and talked to me . |
| 10 | And of course that also meant she could n't possibly spare the time to do her usual singing spot in the club . |
| 11 | If appropriate production skills and resources are not available , the end result does n't usually reflect the time , thought and enthusiasm that went into it . |
| 12 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 13 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
| 14 | ‘ I left the treatment on for about 10 minutes but I did n't really have the time to use a plastic cap . |
| 15 | Cos when you 're working , you do n't really have the time or the interest in actually seeing where the money goes . |
| 16 | or whatever we do n't really have the time , people just say , oh it 's charts . |
| 17 | Give us a job , she said , he wo n't even pass the time of day with us . |