Example sentences of "there [be] [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a perfect world the course should have lasted not one year but three — but there were neither the time or resources ; nor can one train trainers as well as one would like in a field where there are as yet no models to emulate and no specific literature . |
| 2 | In its view , there is not the time , the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense . |
| 3 | There is n't the time . ’ |
| 4 | As a result , there is rarely the time to provide adequate explanations as to why a particular step is carried out . |
| 5 | It was on the tip of her tongue to answer this blow below the belt with a savage ‘ ditto ! ’ but there was not the time , nor did she have the inclination to resurrect the past right now . |
| 6 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 7 | ‘ It could have been major much earlier — I had the know-how and had already done the groundwork — but when I was racing there was n't the time , nor did I have the surplus energy to allow the business its head . |
| 8 | There was also the time element The next tide could not be far away and if he was caught by the tide he would be in real trouble . |
| 9 | There was also the time when he was told he would have to win either the championship or the cup to ease the club 's financial plight . |
| 10 | But there was never the time to put the theory to the test . |