Example sentences of "to devote more " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , in the weeks that followed Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship began to devote more and more hours to the matter of the crisis in Germany . |
| 2 | The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future . |
| 3 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 4 | Some former social therapy clients describe being asked to inform NAP of their whereabouts at all times so they could be contacted for party activity , or to hand over their children to the party 's care in order to devote more time to politics . |
| 5 | The overriding message that emerges from the survey is that accountants in industry share to a considerable degree the City 's view ( as exemplified by the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee ) that reporting companies need to devote more efforts to improving the information provided on the nature of R&D expenditure and , in particular , its contribution to performance . |
| 6 | This concern probably contributed to the very large number ( 69% ) that agreed with the view that companies will have to devote more effort to providing improved information about the value to the business of R&D expenditure . |
| 7 | Paul Morris , a Birchfield triple jumper , reckoned that , after he and some others at his Handsworth school dropped some sports in order to devote more time to GCE preparations , the PE teacher reacted angrily : ‘ He thought we were ganging up on him as most of us were black . ’ |
| 8 | A prime requirement , whether you are thinking of paid or unpaid work , or for that matter simply planning to devote more time to your hobbies , is to remain fit and healthy . |
| 9 | This will include the power to reduce expenditure in any one of these areas in order to devote more funds to another , for example , by choosing to spend money released by a staff vacancy on educational equipment rather than on recruiting a replacement . |
| 10 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 11 | It is reportedly willing to devote more resources to advertising and promoting the Esix version of Unix . |
| 12 | Cedric Humphreys , 65 , wants to retire as clerk to St Osyth Parish Council to devote more time to his interests in amateur dramatics and music . |
| 13 | The rumour mill had been in high gear since late January , when the fifty-seven year old Mr Brown announced he would retire by the end of the year to devote more time to ‘ parenting ’ and to the university founded by his family in Providence , Rhode Island ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 14 | We may need to devote more attention to helping the teacher discern their effects and to relate them to the intentions . |
| 15 | If the linguistic side of our University Schools of English could be persuaded to give rather less of their attention to the roots of the English language and to devote more of it to the leaves it has put forth so abundantly since 1500 there would be far more data for literary scholars like Mr. Bateson to work upon . |
| 16 | Indeed , both were able to devote more attention to the presidency after leaving their chief executiveships , and given the pressure on heads of houses nowadays , the appointment as president of an about-to-retire chief executive may well become a more common — even preferred — solution . |
| 17 | This approach released considerable management time , which enabled management to devote more attention to : |
| 18 | They were thus able to devote more attention to two increasingly critical areas . |
| 19 | Secondly , they were able to devote more effort to materials supply and inventory issues inside the plant — areas where considerable savings could be achieved given the product cost structure . |
| 20 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 21 | The government 's response to the riots , apart from the setting up of the Scarman Inquiry , was to devote more resources to law and order and to renew its efforts to persuade business people to invest in the inner cities . |
| 22 | Now she is retiring to devote more time to her family . |
| 23 | Success allowed Frith to devote more time to leisure and to his family ; he remained a convinced Quaker . |
| 24 | At the height of the energy crisis , the enactment of the Energy Supply and Environmental Co-ordination Act of June 1974 suspended the emission standards until 1977 and 1978 to allow vehicle manufacturers to devote more time to improving fuel economy . |
| 25 | ‘ It has meant that the Independent on Sunday has been able to devote more review space to children 's books , and as a consequence many other newspapers are paying greater attention to children 's books . ’ |
| 26 | Mr. Wharton is a founding partner of the multi-national High Point plc consultancy organisation , and has moved into a non-executive role as Deputy Chairman of the group in order to devote more time to his Presidential activities . |
| 27 | Within my college work , I had already taken the decision to devote more time and concentration to HNC/Ds ; just because they work smoothly and efficiently and have a good reputation is no excuse for not keeping actively in touch with this area . |
| 28 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 29 | This has led companies to expand their in-house basic research efforts , and to devote more resources to monitoring scientific research trends world wide and tracking the R&D activities of their competitors . |
| 30 | ‘ I needed a complete break from the game and wanted to devote more time to my family and business . |