Example sentences of "has no time for " in BNC.

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1 Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking .
2 Opera is too clumsy for ideology — it has no time for its sub-clauses and selective hatreds .
3 It looks increasingly as if Moscow has no time for such trivial questions .
4 He has no time for inefficiency , and he reserves a particular scorn for the manner in which the medical profession organises itself .
5 Mr Eysenck has no time for English diffidence .
6 He has no time for wafflers . ’
7 who has no time for those who whisper in the night of treachery and plot against the light ,
8 This bear of a man clearly has no time for the smug certainties peddled by the top pop politicos …
9 Moise , a businessman typical of Le Sentier 's clothing industry entrepreneurs , has no time for criticism of his employment practices : ‘ Of course we employ workers in conditions outside the legal norms .
10 He has no time for players who are not totally honest with him or with their approach to the game .
11 He has no time for the factory-made products of China , Pakistan or Morocco .
12 Mr Murray has no time for the fashionable preoccupations of academic critics or for the dead-end road of existentialism .
13 He has no time for interfering adults , but I was not to be daunted ; I stuck to him until I saw for myself that he had no methods and did not teach , or rather , did not impose .
14 He has no time for fools .
15 And Sacha says his marriage has survived because his wife has no time for the hype .
16 And she also has no time for farm people , I think .
17 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 .
18 Tank Girl has no time for fantastic dreams , drinking , as she does , beer from bottles labelled Git This Down Ya Neck .
19 He has no time for a honeymoon period , of course , and he will not have the dramatic effect on mood and gates which Kevin Keegan managed at Newcastle .
20 He is a bluff , straight talking , down-to-earth character who has no time for precious notions .
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