Example sentences of "no time for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
2 | He had no time for the over-solicitous kind of welfare service which consists largely of unnecessarily doing for the deaf those things which , given a lead , they can well do for themselves . |
3 | Jack had no time for the dark night of the soul . |
4 | He had no time for the ritual marriage with the Everqueen since the legions of Nagarythe had swept down from their grim realm , bearing the banner of Malekith before them . |
5 | This bear of a man clearly has no time for the smug certainties peddled by the top pop politicos … |
6 | Leo Abse commented on the effects this legislation had on kinship ties when he recorded the support given by people in South Wales to his efforts to reform the divorce law during the 1960s : ‘ Welshmen who had endured the depression had no time for the unctuous pleas for the need at all costs to maintain the unity of family life ’ . |
7 | To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . |
8 | He has no time for the factory-made products of China , Pakistan or Morocco . |
9 | They are the only two post-war premiers to have had no time for the black arts of political news management and personal public relations . |
10 | You just behaved as you , in fact , naturally were and had no time for the black arts of propaganda . |
11 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |
12 | Consequently , he had no time for the younger members of the family . |
13 | Georg was standing there and although Busacher had no time for the disagreeable young man , he had to concede that Georg , in dinner jacket and black tie , was extremely handsome . |
14 | I 've no time for the big bureaucratic parties , anyway . " |
15 | Mr Murray has no time for the fashionable preoccupations of academic critics or for the dead-end road of existentialism . |
16 | But Tallis had no time for the old man and his sad , bad dreams of lost possessions , lost knowledge . |
17 | Birdies , butchers and fools They called Forman a Zionist and Menzel a pornographer — Moscow 's stooges had no time for the Czech New Wave . |
18 | He has no time for the fair-weather aid groups , who will only go to Romania in the summer and is annoyed by those who deliver basic supplies , take a few pictures and never return . |