Example sentences of "[art] lot [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unscheduled Okay , this is er , it 's , it 's a diagnostic sheet if you find that you 're interrupted quite a lot over time , for you know , at a particular time , and you want to find out why you 're becoming less effective , you use this to log interruptions . |
| 2 | He spends a lot of time saying why this way of regarding syntactic mental states does not encounter the problem of the holism of the mental . |
| 3 | Consequently I find myself spending a lot of time looking at chairs in museums , shops , exhibitions and other peoples ' houses . |
| 4 | The comfort of their home can be especially important if they spend a lot of time there . |
| 5 | In the 1860s Dostoevsky was spending a lot of time abroad . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the Cuk converter topology seems likely to remain an outsider until a true trade-off comparison can be made between Cuk and Buck at a series of realistic equivalent performance levels , a task that would take a lot of time , but whose results would be of great interest to many in the power supply design field . |
| 7 | He found that the canonry and the cathedral , and the administration in the university , took up a lot of time . |
| 8 | ‘ When you are developing an act up to a record deal , you spend a lot of time with them , ’ confirms Doyle . |
| 9 | However , managers put a lot of time , energy and commitment into their artist 's careers ( as well as a substantial financial investment ) , so it would be unfair for the manager to be dismissed at a moment 's notice , just because the artist fancied a change of management . |
| 10 | After that we spent a lot of time practising in what later became Riverside Studios . |
| 11 | He is chancellor of Stirling University and spends a lot of time going around lecturing at universities and schools . |
| 12 | I used to spend a lot of time in demanding places like the Andes and in remote parts of Africa . |
| 13 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 14 | Team member Jack Tinsdale said : ‘ John was Bill 's right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team . |
| 15 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 16 | We do not have a lot of time left in which to act … |
| 17 | The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair . |
| 18 | Unless you have a fair experience of building handicrafts and a lot of time on your hands , you will probably need to hire a builder , and you should take as much care over this as possible since the quality of building work varies very substantially indeed , and two different firms of builders , next to each other in the ‘ Yellow Pages ’ may reflect totally different standards and attitudes . |
| 19 | During that period , I spent a lot of time with Calvin Mark Lee , basically because he was Lou Reisner 's assistant , and he and I got on really well . |
| 20 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 21 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 22 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |
| 23 | She told me that Tony spent a lot of time making passes at her , but she was horrible flirtatious and very beautiful . |
| 24 | Dolphins spend a lot of time enjoying sex and foreplay , and unlike most wild animals , their sexual interest is not determined by being ‘ in season ’ , or the urge to procreate . |
| 25 | I 've got a lot of time for … personnel … track record … . ’ |
| 26 | He must have spent a lot of time out in the sun — running ? |
| 27 | I 've come home to my dinner and I 've not a lot of time to spare . ’ |
| 28 | We spent a lot of time in the National Gallery and at the Tate , and wrote some poems about the pictures there , including Verrocchio 's Tobias and the Angel , Piero di Cosima 's Mythological Subject and Titian 's Christ Appearing to the Magdalen — Noli me Tangere , whose theme had a special significance for me now : Dana was Christ , and I was the Magdalen . |
| 29 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 30 | It must save you a lot of time being a spirit and seeing everything at once . |