Example sentences of "to spend a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They managed to crawl away from the lava to spend a freezing night on a ledge 150 yards inside the 500ft vent . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 3 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 4 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 5 | Third on fuel costs , the inquiry is likely to spend a great deal of time looking at coal-price assumptions , because Sizewell would be uneconomic if coal prices do not experience any real increase . |
| 6 | The use of the word ‘ lazy ’ here does not imply that those animals are indolent or inefficient but rather that their specialisation is so finely tuned and successful that they are able to spend a great deal of their daily lives sitting , gazing and sleeping . |
| 7 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 8 | Clara dreaded the vacations , and tried to whittle them down as much as she could , by semi-obligatory study courses , and quasi-essential trips to the continent to learn the languages she was studying , but despite these nibblings and thefts , she still found herself obliged to spend a great deal of time each year in Hartley Road . |
| 9 | With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) . |
| 10 | You see I ca n't afford to spend a great deal on anyone this year . |
| 11 | The atmosphere here is friendly — an ideal place for Club Couples to spend a relaxing holiday in comfortable surroundings . |
| 12 | She was going to have to spend a second night at the motel , if only to continue their cover of an ‘ affair ’ . |
| 13 | So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring , summer or whenever . |
| 14 | There really is no better way to spend a long weekend , or indeed an entire week , during winter , than in the warm sun of Portugal 's Algarve , Spain 's Costa del Sol or the cooler — though still very comfortable — French region of Calais . |
| 15 | It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash . |
| 16 | to develop from a small beginning in manageable steps rather than to spend a long period identifying ‘ all ’ institutional needs and all required data items followed by software development of a ‘ complete ’ system on an unmanageable scale ; |
| 17 | ‘ Another thing which caused me to spend a long time on the story was that prostitution is a black and whit story , but the business side of photography usually wants colour . |
| 18 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 19 | Although the Laputans were kind to me , I did not want to spend a long time in their country . |
| 20 | ‘ People have to spend a long time with robot animals first . |
| 21 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 22 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 23 | My very sincere thanks to everyone involved in the Art in Nature Competition — thank you for choosing me , and giving me the opportunity to spend a little time on this magic island , which so generously allowed me to paint , and to enjoy , its special beauty . |
| 24 | Before focusing on the way in which educational accountability has manifested itself in evaluation procedures we want to spend a little time exploring this more general picture . |
| 25 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 26 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman and I manage to spend a little time in Lancashire together , and that he will come to Bath . |
| 27 | However , she now found herself losing touch with all reality as Ross , obviously frustrated in his efforts to sort out their air-conditioning and nanny problems , proceeded to spend a small fortune on his wife . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that not only has the Conservative party demonstrated that it is willing to spend a greater proportion of gross national product , but , by continuing to expand our economy , we have surpassed the Labour party bid at the 1987 election — when it said that it would increase spending on the national health service by 3 per cent . |
| 29 | Says Bartle : ‘ We demonstrated that you do n't need to spend a vast amount of money for advertising to work and be successful . |
| 30 | But when he teamed up with Dave Barnetson and Paul Bowers to spend a testing weekend with the Territorial Army this spring , he was taken to the limit . |