Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athletics is the most successful sport in Britain and we should spend more time talking about that . ’ |
| 2 | Instead of attacking the Prison Officers Association , the Government should spend more time ensuring that the money and resources are available that will enable the prison service to work ; otherwise , the result will be the wanton destruction that occurred atStrangeways . |
| 3 | We should spend more time trying to bring whatever expertise we may have to bear on the subject in question . |
| 4 | Perhaps they should spend more time concentrating on protecting interests of workers than promoting constitutional debate within the Party . |
| 5 | Both the Royal College and childbirth groups agree that consultant obstetricians should spend more time in the labour ward helping junior staff . |
| 6 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 7 | The explicit extension of the abstract convention then includes the proposition that both sides must be heard , but it does not include either the proposition that they must have equal time or the contrary proposition that the party with the more difficult case must have more time . |
| 8 | The remaining material in Volume 1 — the so-called ‘ additional analyses ’ — which included detailed information about departmental subprogrammes and the English , Scottish and Welsh components should take more time to produce and be made available in alternative ways , as technical releases , in the spring . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman should take more time to encourage schools in Bradford to learn the lessons from the city technology college to improve the quality of technology education in Bradford . |
| 10 | I think we must allow more time during the lunchbreak for notices — they are too rushed towards the end ! |
| 11 | Some felt that they needed to compensate their children for the ‘ loss ’ of the other parent , and so should devote more time to them . |
| 12 | Primary schools ‘ must devote more time to science ’ |
| 13 | Instead , he must devote more time to drafting letters , making records , and writing reports in the office . |
| 14 | Nancy appreciates that others might need more time than she takes , to absorb and follow her instructions . |
| 15 | ‘ So I 'll have more time for designing . |
| 16 | Promotions of labour-saving gadgets encourage us to save time on household chores , so that we 'll have more time for leisure and recreation . |
| 17 | Perhaps next time I 'll have more time to prepare . |
| 18 | We 'll have more time together then . ’ |
| 19 | We do n't have an afternoon surgery , so I 'll have more time to talk . ’ |
| 20 | It 'll take more time than buying an off-the-shelf solution , it wo n't be so neatly packaged , and there are a few ‘ gotchas ’ for the unwary . |
| 21 | Maybe if she and Julie did n't have such tiring , exhausting jobs they might have more time to concentrate on the culinary arts . |
| 22 | Stop talking about it and we might have more time . |
| 23 | He can play , if Wallace was more inclined to work WITH his partner they might strike more times ( he 's a selfish git ) . |
| 24 | When people adept at hypnosis sit quietly with their eyes closed , they may spend more time sending out alpha waves than people who are ‘ bad ’ hypnotic subjects . |
| 25 | And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams . |
| 26 | There 's no job in the industry I covet above my own , but I dearly wish I could spend more time designing and less on paperwork . |
| 27 | She could spend more time by the pool , thanks , perhaps , to a long-forgotten act of collaboration with the Nazis . |
| 28 | I 'll retire , of course , but I 'd like more time to lay my plans . |
| 29 | You 'd expect the productivity to fall would n't you , if you were actually operating a fax service because you 'd save , you 'd take more time to monitor it |
| 30 | Less time to chatter could mean more time to form considered opinions , to read widely , to think deeply , to recharge your batteries . |