Example sentences of "[be] spend [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 2 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 3 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 4 | Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate . |
| 5 | So should you discover that you are spending more time in Safeways than on the north-bound carriageway of the A9 , it 's time to tackle the South Glen Shiel Ridge . |
| 6 | Equally , many people sell their house and move somewhere smaller without taking account of the fact that when they are spending more time at home they may actually want more space , rather than less . |
| 7 | The time taken to process claims has been reduced ; the error rate is down ; and claimants are spending less time waiting . |
| 8 | It did n't take her long to realise that he could n't really be spending much time here . |
| 9 | Now my knowledge of that database is nobody should be spending any time doing anything with that , cos nobody 's ever said it works . |
| 10 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 11 | Suffolk secretary Konrad Machej said : ‘ Teachers will be spending more time teaching , which is what parents really want . ’ |
| 12 | Firstly , you will probably be spending more time at home , so items like heating and lighting are liable to be costlier . |
| 13 | As you 'll probably be spending more time in the living area , this will be your starting point . |
| 14 | VBS used to give Output Manager away with their somewhat quirky VB No5 program but now seem to be spending more time developing the Output Manager rather than No5 ! |
| 15 | John intends to keep active in retirement and will be spending more time on ‘ serious ’ walking . |
| 16 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm spending less time at Rocamar and more time in London , ’ he informed her . |
| 18 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 19 | A poll of 492 firms showed that 70% find audit work ‘ uneconomic ’ as a result of the cost of audit regulation , combined with client pressure on fees : 76.8% said that more partners and staff were spending non-chargeable time on audit regulation matters , while only 31.7% were able to pass these increased costs on to clients . |
| 20 | But somehow , now that the 34-year-old Yuri is spending more time away from his homeland — touring with the Bolshoi to Europe , America and the Far East , starring in Sleeping Beauty , Romeo & Juliet and Swan Lake , meeting politicians and top businessmen , even being presented to royalty — that shaggy , laid-back image does n't sit so well on his broad shoulders . |
| 21 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 22 | What the better libraries have done is to spend some time contacting shareware authors and acting as their representative . |
| 23 | The perfect way to learn a foreign language is to spend some time with the native speakers of that language . |
| 24 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | Asylum Aid , which represents immigrants who 're seeking refuge in Britain , says the last thing they need is to spend more time behind bars . |
| 26 | Now Tom was managing the manor farm , Dolly was spending much time at the dairy there . |
| 27 | There was obvious tension between Slozil , Steffi Graf 's former coach , and Capriati and between the coach and Mr Capriati , who did not believe his daughter was spending enough time practising on court . |
| 28 | He still had a low boredom threshold — which was why he was spending less time going to Equity Council meetings . |
| 29 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 30 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |