Example sentences of "spend [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American base of RAF Mildenhall has not yet been told by the Pentagon that it can spend the necessary cash on the show , which last year attracted 406,000 people . |
| 2 | I am sure that he would agree that the real problem is that local authorities across the country can not spend the necessary money on our elderly people because of the capping regime imposed by central Government . |
| 3 | The move to Midshire even made economic sense ; she had several modest school recitals in Birmingham and the Black Country during the next month , and it would be cheaper to move up there and find a furnished room somewhere , rather than spend the intervening time here in town . |
| 4 | ‘ I am extremely concerned this is to be based on the Government 's own estimate of how much each council should spend the Standard Spending Assessment . |
| 5 | They would spend the occasional weekend together when the chance occurred , but that 's all . |
| 6 | Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game . |
| 7 | Leather corals , unlike some coelenterates , do not spend the entire time fully expanded . |
| 8 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |
| 9 | Now she has buckled under pressure and will spend the entire holiday there . |
| 10 | They 'd probably spend the entire time at one another 's throats ! |
| 11 | It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . |
| 12 | Diana has already decided , it is understood , that she will not spend the traditional Christmas break with the Royal Family at Sandringham . |
| 13 | No person or officer could hold or spend the collective income . |
| 14 | He said that he would spend the Soviet Union into submission ; he did . |
| 15 | ‘ But you did spend the previous day with the King ? ’ |
| 16 | She sometimes thought that if they went somewhere hot and beachy as most people did — the Seychelles , the Maldives , the Caribbean — they would spend the whole day swimming or sunbathing . |
| 17 | You 'll be faster , less bothersome to other parties , and wo n't spend the whole climb in mortal fear of tripping up on your own rope ! |
| 18 | Me , too , come to that — if you do n't come , he 'll spend the whole time fretting about the book . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You should get yourself a telescope C.W. You could spend the whole day stargazing . ’ |
| 20 | Do not spend the whole time talking about yourself , your job and your life . |
| 21 | On arriving at Dingle , he had expected to be given charge of a spoilt , overdressed menina who would spend the whole voyage in her cot with her maidservant running about in attendance , so he had been pleasantly surprised to find in Sara an odd mixture of childish enthusiasm and womanly grace . |
| 22 | The director is visibly disappointed when I explain that we will start with the basics and that we will not spend the whole budget on a new x ray machine . |
| 23 | Many of the birds we see in Britain do n't spend the whole year here . |
| 24 | ‘ No , just trying to decide whether I should take you riding in a horse-drawn carriage through Dyrhaven tomorrow , or whether I should spend the whole day making love to you . ’ |
| 25 | And you can spend the whole day without a bite . |
| 26 | How will you spend the academic vacations ? |
| 27 | It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working . |
| 28 | 54th minute : Tottenham 's Neil Ruddock will also spend the festive season on the sidelines after a rough challenge on Parlour , which also warranted a yellow card . |
| 29 | Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement . |
| 30 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |