Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can not waste the time , and you 'll be safer in Paris than Scotland . |
| 2 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 3 | Clearly , before the sound begins we can not measure the time it is going to take , but after it has sounded how can we measure it , since it is then no more ? |
| 4 | Every type of food is readily available and preparation and cooking have never been easier ; and if he can not spare the time , convenience foods reduce the time required for shopping and preparation to the bare minimum . |
| 5 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 6 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
| 7 | It may also have the effect of precluding those members who can not find the time to attend a few workshops and may therefore strengthen management committees and their bureaux in the long run . |
| 8 | It just can not work every time . |
| 9 | On such occasions you can not afford the time , no matter how little , to set up a clip-on bobbin . |
| 10 | I can not afford the time to try everything and often refuse review loans , both of hardware and software . |
| 11 | We can not afford to pussyfoot around with it , we can not afford the time not to be on the move , on the move because that 's the only way our members are gon na dictate what they want . |
| 12 | Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group . |
| 13 | The amount that we do overseas fluctuates but I can not remember a time when we have not had an overseas project going on . |
| 14 | You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty . |
| 15 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |