Example sentences of "[verb] much [prep] their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without wishing to detract from the impact of the number of dogs put to sleep weekly by the RSPCA , it must be realised that this number would be much higher if vets themselves did not also spend much of their time carrying out euthanasia . |
| 2 | Obviously the leaders of major organisations can not spend much of their time in schools , but their occasional visits would complement the very valuable support which can be given on a regular and consistent basis by businesses and people who work within them . |
| 3 | Ironically , in some cultures ( e.g. UK ) , many of these people will spend much of their time complaining about the very structure and rationality they were seeking . |
| 4 | But most students will spend much of their time working in the college library , study centre or some other room set aside for quiet study ( i.e. not the refectory or student union ) . |
| 5 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |
| 6 | Primary schools devote much of their time to discussion . |
| 7 | When she had subsided , and we had recovered from our surprise at this outburst , we asked her whether the small and large hominids were strictly savannah species or whether they spent much of their time in forests . |
| 8 | When the boys had been placed in good schools , William and Isabella spent much of their time travelling in Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 9 | The women actually had rather strong ties , since they spent much of their time doing household tasks communally outside . |
| 10 | They were very isolated from other members of the team because they were essentially ward based , while the more senior staff spent much of their time in outpatient clinics and operating theatres — often in different hospitals . |
| 11 | Thus they spent much of their time debating the validity of various evaluation procedures as potential responses . |
| 12 | Low commented that the British in India spent much of their time on long journeys by rail , and their journeys were ‘ elaborate proceedings , not to be transacted in the casual fashion ’ customary in Europe : |
| 13 | Among large predatory mammals , polar bears are mainly maritime , spending much of their time along the coast or on sea ice where they hunt for fish and seals . |
| 14 | The deposed Kuwaiti government established its base in the Saudi mountain resort of Taif , although the Amir and his ministers spent much of their time travelling the world to bolster opposition to the invasion . |
| 15 | The strongest spent much of their time practicing military exercises and hunting on horseback . ’ |
| 16 | As a member of one of the two departments into which the direction politique of the foreign ministry was then divided , he found that he and his colleagues spent much of their time playing draughts and that there was considerable rivalry between the two as to which could make the better " five o'clock tea " . |
| 17 | Doctors who want to devote much of their time to research are undervalued . |
| 18 | There , an Inspector Fusco pleads for men to be returned to beat patrol from community projects , for these he realizes are ‘ an admirable aspiration , until one starts to notice that community involvement officers come to work to spend much of their time in track suits or jeans and tee shirts , and some grow longer hair and beards and mix with the locals ’ . |
| 19 | Many children need to spend much of their time with the group in physical activity out-of-doors , and a teacher supervising them can help to develop their experiences and language , so that she feels her time is being used just as profitably out-of-doors as within the confines of the classroom . |
| 20 | Unlike many carnivores , for whom a single meal a day is often sufficient , herbivores have to spend much of their time eating . |
| 21 | This seems an odd reversal of the usual rule that Arctic animals are whiter , but otherwise they behaved as fulmar do in Shetland , appearing to spend much of their time flying and gliding over the sea . |
| 22 | At Oxford and Cambridge , dons were reputed to spend much of their time reading a slightly higher ‘ body in the library ’ sort of book . |
| 23 | Young drug users typically experience conflict with their parents , who may encourage them to spend much of their time away from the family setting or conform to strict boundaries whilst the family home . |
| 24 | Today they spend much of their time flying to conferences , of which there are an unending supply , particularly those associated with the environment . |
| 25 | East European military attaches and trade missions spend much of their time buying up every sort of book and technical journal and visiting every trade fair around Europe and America . |
| 26 | The natives roam their rather less than spectacular slopes in huge gangs , effectively blocking off one tract of mountain from the next so that foreigners spend much of their time waiting for detached companions . |
| 27 | On windsurfers children are particularly quick learners since they spend much of their time messing about on boards , and in the process find out how to handle their boards and rigs in a number of unorthodox positions . |
| 28 | The refugees have stripped the surrounding hills almost bare , and spend much of their time collecting branches . |
| 29 | Like the cancer causing retroviruses , the nomads spend much of their time inside chromosomes at various locations in the main body of the DNA : however they often re-form as plasmids to cruise aimlessly about the nucleus . |
| 30 | The working cats spend much of their time outside chasing birds and rodents , or challenging rival cats , and are wonderfully relaxed when they do , at last , come indoors for a saucer of milk or a snooze by the fire . |