Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Babur rings Keith and tells Keith he is the only one who has not arranged the time off yet .
2 If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ?
3 Because teachers often can not answer the question of why they teach as they do and because they refer to statements such as that they just know what to do or have a feeling or sense about what to do , it has been suggested that what guides teachers in making sense of their work and what commits them to action is a mixture of " personal knowledge , tacit knowledge , routine knowledge … when conscious thought is not permitted the time to percolate and inform practice " ( Simons and Elliott 1989 ) .
4 Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog .
5 I have not had the time or sometimes the knowledge to identify all the organisms I found , but the species list to date ( Tables I and 2 ) totals 1731 .
6 Another , closely related , hypothesis is that at the end of each day we have in our unconscious a sort of ragbag of bits and pieces of experience which our conscious mind has not had the time , opportunity or inclination to process ; once again , the function of the dream is to deal with this material .
7 ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time .
8 ‘ I have not had the time to devote to business lately , but now that my grandmother is feeling better … ’
9 because she 's just not got the time
10 have not got the time to be doing
11 They had not reached the time for sharing out .
12 They had not taken the time to find out that it was actually the women who traditionally grew the rice for domestic consumption and then exchanged the surplus for other goods or services .
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