Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If both consultants and house officers are to give dedicated time to education , then less clinical work will be achieved and waiting lists will grow longer . |
| 2 | This procedure is most suitable for bills that do not raise issues on which parties automatically disagree ; to use select committee-type sittings on such a bill would be to provide further time for repetition of standard partisan arguments . |
| 3 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 4 | What the better libraries have done is to spend some time contacting shareware authors and acting as their representative . |
| 5 | The perfect way to learn a foreign language is to spend some time with the native speakers of that language . |
| 6 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | Asylum Aid , which represents immigrants who 're seeking refuge in Britain , says the last thing they need is to spend more time behind bars . |
| 8 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 9 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 10 | It was to take some time before a distinct and overall Sussex people could be forged by the strength of the rulers . |
| 11 | The last thing she wanted was to spend more time with this abrasive Scandinavian . |