Example sentences of "wasting [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tremayne said the process saved the owners from wasting money on fruitless horsebox expenses and jockey fees and also saved himself a lot of inexplicable and worrying disappointments . |
| 2 | Victoria continued to wear handed-down Liberty dresses from Aunt Rose 's daughters , and wasting money by the excessive use of electric light , hot water or heating appliances was a vice which Pamela rigorously discouraged in children and servants . |
| 3 | The successful candidates will probably be given a very expensive training , and it is fear of wasting money on training unsuitable applicants which is the reason for such a prolonged exercise . |
| 4 | I should not let them linger , wasting time , wasting money , until the spring brings them fresh hope . |
| 5 | INSTEAD of wasting money on fixing Windsor Castle , let's sell it to the Japanese and use the proceeds to save St Bart 's . |
| 6 | An obvious ( if possibly fatuous ) answer is that , rather than wasting money on potentially unwanted presents , people have given cash , which the recipients have rushed out to spend on reduced-price merchandise . |
| 7 | If the EC and Europe 's major television manufacturers persist with HDMAC , then the road to digital HDTV in Europe will become circuitous and unnecessarily expensive , with broadcasters and domestic consumers alike wasting money . |
| 8 | Most of the publications which are likely to be interested in using pictures like these do not use colour photographs , so there is no point in wasting money taking them . |
| 9 | The Open University was also the subject of debate between Alix Bowen and Teddy Lazenby of the Department of Education and Science : Alix 's face was expressing a most delicate mixture of disbelief , disapprobation and polite attention as Teddy , somewhat indiscreetly presuming on their long , if long-interrupted , acquaintance , revealed what were clearly his own opinions on the inadvisability of wasting money on the education of housewives and taxi drivers . |
| 10 | To do so would risk purchasing care inappropriately and , by wasting money , could exacerbate inequalities . |
| 11 | Cos to me that is wasting money , you know we just , I just buy the essentials . |
| 12 | Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded . |
| 13 | Their naive financial management , wasting money on stop-go projects — The Westgate Extension is only one example . |
| 14 | ‘ I thank you , Mr Aycliffe , but I have no intention of wasting money which is not my own and may never be so . ’ |
| 15 | I respond with one simple example of wasting money . |
| 16 | How dare the Government say that they are going to improve patient care when they are wasting money so disgracefully in other parts of the health service ? |
| 17 | Erm , what we have done is is because what is important is to look at that particular and try and get as good an estimate as we can because , let's face it , if we over-budget then in fact we 're wasting money which could otherwise be really targeted on community resources . |
| 18 | Why go storming off wasting money on another place to stay ? ’ |
| 19 | They 'd be better off waiting to see what the law is before wasting money on taking action . |
| 20 | Well I 've got a feeling that if you do a video we 're gon na reorganise anyway in the light of er what 's going to happen in near future , getting rid of chief superintendents and things like that , we might be wasting money again . |
| 21 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
| 22 | There seems little point in wasting research time on the incidence of old age abuse ; as with child abuse , it can lead to a kind of spurious precision , in which figures are cited which will not bear scrutiny for three main reasons . |
| 23 | MND is a muscle wasting condition which kills three people in the UK each day : there is , currently , no treatment or cure and is always fatal . |
| 24 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 25 | They paid dearly for wasting goalscoring opportunities . |
| 26 | Half load The half-load facility allows you to wash six place settings using just one basket ( usually the bottom one ) without wasting detergent , water or energy . |
| 27 | With the exception of Blitzer and Block Breaker , both of which I can do without , this is a decent little time wasting package . |
| 28 | Not much compared with a redundant commercial package wasting shelf space . |
| 29 | He was 82 and for months had received intensive medical care which included trips to the United States to consult experts about his wasting body . |
| 30 | Local authorities should not be interfering and wasting charge payers ' money in those ridiculous , trite and stupid ways . |