Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [prep] [pos pn] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primary schools devote much of their time to discussion . |
| 2 | I get there the impression that Northallerton spend half of their time in staff meetings so I 'd be surprised |
| 3 | The working cats spend much of their time outside chasing birds and rodents , or challenging rival cats , and are wonderfully relaxed when they do , at last , come indoors for a saucer of milk or a snooze by the fire . |
| 4 | The report confirmed that house officers spend much of their time on inappropriate tasks — either those that are beyond their competence and for which they can not hope to provide optimum care ( like providing the main source of symptom control to inpatients , the sole medical cover to surgical patients , and explaining complicated procedures to patients and relatives ) and others that could be done just as well by non-medical staff ( like filing reports , taking routine blood samples , and arranging beds ) . |
| 5 | None the less , both sexes spend much of their time in pairs or small groups , doing largely as they please : playing , fishing , catching butterflies for sale to traders , and so on . |
| 6 | They spend much of their time in water keeping cool ( overleaf ) . |
| 7 | People who spend much of their time in this type of activity will probably have already built up a reputation in the area . |
| 8 | They spend much of their time in the bedroom , especially at this time of year when it 's so cold . |
| 9 | Animals which spend much of their time in the dark use a more sophisticated system than us . |
| 10 | Aquatic birds that spend much of their time in water , well insulated by fat and waterproof plumage ( Figure 6.1 ) , are pre-adapted for life in cold lands ; the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas pre-adapts them for polar seas . |
| 11 | Like the cancer causing retroviruses , the nomads spend much of their time inside chromosomes at various locations in the main body of the DNA : however they often re-form as plasmids to cruise aimlessly about the nucleus . |
| 12 | I spend much of my time at the shops ; wandering through the aisles , faltering , never knowing what to buy . |
| 13 | Women and children often spend most of their day collecting water ; in the hilly areas of Kenya women spend nine-tenths of their time on this single task . |
| 14 | Though they spend most of their time at their desks managing field work and consulting senior officials in headquarters , they are in frequent contact with their staff . |
| 15 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |
| 16 | Class sizes are generally larger than PTRs , because not all teachers actually teach ( heads , for instance , spend most of their time on administrative work ) , because marking and preparation duties restrict direct contact hours with pupils , and because sometimes classes are combined or split up for various periods . |
| 17 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 18 | In this view , women 's place is firmly in the home , providing a ‘ haven in a heartless world ’ , servicing the needs of their men — who spend most of their time in the ‘ public ’ world of work — and socialising their daughters and unmarried female servants into the ways of domesticity and sexual chastity ( Davidoff et al . , |
| 19 | Architects and planners are usually men and , in the case of local authority housing estates , not of the class of those who actually spend most of their time in the flats and houses they design . |
| 20 | Sand lizards spend most of their time in burrows underground ; we had been very lucky . |
| 21 | And anyway , I 'm only there for a very small part of the year ; I spend most of my time at school , where there 's twelve beds to a room … dorm … and one can never be alone , it 's not allowed . ’ |
| 22 | Working as an au pair I spend most of my time in the house with young children , so I dress casually — usually in tracksuits or jeans . |
| 23 | But you always said ‘ No one with any sense goes on the stage , you spend most of your time on the dole ’ . ’ |
| 24 | you spend most of your time like that |