Example sentences of "[verb] more time to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 2 | Melba Maggay has left her position as director of the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture in Manila , Philippines , in order to dedicate more time to writing . |
| 3 | Priorities were changed ; more importance was attached to paid work and hence they were willing to give more time to union affairs . |
| 4 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 5 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 6 | She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards . |
| 7 | Success allowed Frith to devote more time to leisure and to his family ; he remained a convinced Quaker . |
| 8 | Some former social therapy clients describe being asked to inform NAP of their whereabouts at all times so they could be contacted for party activity , or to hand over their children to the party 's care in order to devote more time to politics . |
| 9 | Paul Morris , a Birchfield triple jumper , reckoned that , after he and some others at his Handsworth school dropped some sports in order to devote more time to GCE preparations , the PE teacher reacted angrily : ‘ He thought we were ganging up on him as most of us were black . ’ |
| 10 | Primary schools ‘ must devote more time to science ’ |