Example sentences of "to devote [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , Steve gave up his joinery business to set up a small security firm , hoping for more time to devote to the much-needed rescue . |
| 2 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 3 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 4 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 5 | The premature end to what could have been a professional ballet career meant that Carol at least had more time to devote to the blossoming courtship with a young accountant , Ron Minogue . |
| 6 | Although the Church of the period lamented Charles ' sexual vigour and lack of suppressive morality , to the modern imagination it seems remarkable that he could rule a vast empire and still have time to devote to three concubines . |
| 7 | This adversity he turned to good advantage , for here was time to devote to his beloved natural history . |
| 8 | There is nothing left either in womanpower or funds to devote to blowing our own trumpet , so we have been unable to impress you with the extent and importance of our work . |
| 9 | It was a great pleasure to meet the team of authors and please thank Susan Parks for giving up so much of her time to devote to going through the manuscripts . |
| 10 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 11 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 12 | It gave him more time to devote to music and allowed him to pour his suffocating feelings of negativity into songs . |
| 13 | It is useful , as a guide , for the staff to decide how much time it intends overall to devote to different subject areas , and what the pattern of delivery will look like for the learner . |
| 14 | Nowadays , people have more time than ever before to devote to leisure and recreation . |
| 15 | However , although agencies take a lot of the work out of finding an employee , and can be particularly useful if interviewer(s) are part of a voluntary committee which has limited time to devote to the task of appointing new staff , they have the disadvantage that you are limited in your choice by the number of people who have themselves registered with the agency . |
| 16 | While she noted the advantages of this : ‘ Indeed , the post combining staff and training responsibilities is a fairly successful combination since both jobs require an overall view of the entire system and neither job is particularly attached to any of the service functions ’ , ( as opposed to designated training officers also being attached to any particular aspect of the service ) , lack of sufficient time to devote to training was often commented on by the named training officers in our sample . |
| 17 | However , I 'm leaving work soon to take up fostering teenagers , so this should leave me more time to devote to campaigning . |
| 18 | Mrs M no longer had the time to devote to the girl who sought schooling for herself . |
| 19 | When they do use credit , the instalment payments tend to be a heavier burden for poorer people , in terms of the proportion of their income which they have to devote to them . |
| 20 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 21 | unable to devote to themselves and are not receiving from other persons proper care and attention . ’ |
| 22 | For Anselm , the problems of the inviolability of monastic vows transcended all others in the care he was prepared to devote to it . |
| 23 | The first thing to do is to rephrase the question that everyone asks themselves , not ‘ what would I like to grow , what do I want to grow ? ’ but ‘ what do I have space for , and how much time am I prepared to devote to looking after what I plant ? ’ |
| 24 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 25 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 26 | In any case , few men or women had sufficient time or energy after long hours of farm labouring or housework to devote to a garden or allotment . |
| 27 | The key to successful time management is knowing what you want to achieve , how much it means to you , and how much of your time and energy you are prepared to devote to it . |
| 28 | All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing . |
| 29 | Since he had no typist or secretary in the country , this meant that much of the time which he wished to devote to his own work had to be spent on business correspondence . |
| 30 | To ensure that participation was not , in practice , confined to those with the leisure to devote to politics , pay was introduced , first for membership of the council and for jury service , and later for attendance at the assembly . |