Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |
| 2 | This allows more time for attended cases , since non-attended cases tend to be dealt with very speedily . |
| 3 | Priorities were changed ; more importance was attached to paid work and hence they were willing to give more time to union affairs . |
| 4 | For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time . |
| 5 | They needed bricks , they told him ; and some needed more time to pay . |
| 6 | This releases more time within the inquiry unit allocation for the development of such information skills as note taking and , in particular , the important first step : defining a need for information . |
| 7 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 8 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 9 | But they do have to be selected — and that takes a lot of |
| 10 | It all takes more time and effort , but without the money there is no way forward , she said . |
| 11 | ‘ One reason is because people who have been made redundant have more time to think up new inventions . |
| 12 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 13 | The programme is time-tabled over three years , with the option of an accelerated 2-year programme for those who are able to devote more time to their studies . |
| 14 | She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards . |
| 15 | First , they were able to spend more time looking at the characteristics of the turbulent environment outside the plant and exploring the implications of specific developments for their operation . |
| 16 | We would all be able to spend more time together at Moor House . |
| 17 | I know that one of his reasons for leaving is that he genuinely wants to be able to spend more time with his family . |
| 18 | Peter Walker , the Secretary of State for Wales , confirmed on March 4 that he intended to leave the government at a future point in order to be able to spend more time with his family ; it was subsequently announced on March 14 that he would be succeeded in late May by David Hunt , currently Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities , who would enter the Cabinet for the first time . |
| 19 | If they had been able to take more time over preparation of their findings and reasons the difficulties this court has faced on this appeal might not have arisen . |
| 20 | It means we our staff are able to take more time er to understand and advise our clients which we need to do . |
| 21 | The richer ABs spend more time shopping for DIY products , and buy more , than members of any other social group . |
| 22 | It was also partly down to the well-disciplined orchestra , although the jazz idiom of , for instance , Crown 's ‘ A Red-Headed Woman ’ is not really in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's blood , and Libor Pesek was inclined to take more time than some of his soloists wanted . |
| 23 | This is a four-week period in which racing should not be undertaken seriously , but during this time training can become harder and as it does so , it must be directed towards the goal , It may be necessary to allow more time between hard sessions and longer recovery times during the session , until your anti-stress systems get back to normal . |
| 24 | Mr Waldegrave should next spend more time explaining how the reforms will help put patients first . |
| 25 | Resigned as employment secretary in January 1990 to spend more time with his family . |