Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories . |
| 2 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 3 | Cedric Humphreys , 65 , wants to retire as clerk to St Osyth Parish Council to devote more time to his interests in amateur dramatics and music . |
| 4 | He had been a deacon and church treasurer before coming to Darlington and he hopes in retirement to have more time for church work . |
| 5 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 6 | Two regulars , Messrs Dodman and Harrop , arrived but most were new faces following Peter 's decision to opt this time for newly graduated advisers . |
| 7 | Mr President Portsmouth is a thriving maritime city with much to be proud of we have many supreme attractions Victory Mary Rose and Warrior amongst others which I hope you will have a chance to visit some time during your stay here in Portsmouth . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Tommy , you know that Betty and Doris do n't get the chance to waste much time under you . |
| 9 | However , after a £50,000,000 compensation package for UK depositors and employees had been put together by the Abu Dhabi government on July 30 , the High Court in London granted the bank a four-month delay to allow more time for majority shareholders to explore ways of reviving BCCI . |
| 10 | The department has about 70 families and individuals acting as carers to give people chance to develop new interests and greater self-confidence and offering their families a chance to have some time to themselves . |
| 11 | A male colleague of Perkins ' , working at the same grade , is also taking a day off a week to spend more time with his children and perhaps this is the most heartening news of all . |
| 12 | The 32-year-old libero , regarded as one of the most accomplished and stylish defenders in world soccer , turned his back on the national team last month to spend more time with his family . |
| 13 | Councillor Spencer Rosie , much to the loss of the community he served , resigned from Orkney Islands Council in April 1991 , due , he said to pressure of work , and the wish to spend more time with his own growing family . |
| 14 | This part of the course is intended to enable the student to spend enough time on one current and developing model of grammar to be at ease with its fundamental concepts and to understand in some detail the application of these to the solution of actual problems in English . |
| 15 | MANDATORY repatriation of Hong Kong 's Vietnamese boat people will resume during the first half of next month , despite the protest action in detention centres and international pressure on Britain and the Hong Kong Government to allow more time for voluntary repatriation . |
| 16 | Make a resolution to spend more time in the coming year visiting inspiring wild habitats . |
| 17 | They still do not concede that we are doing nothing to force any GP to spend less time with his patients . |
| 18 | The SCOTVEC exercise gave me an ideal and welcome opportunity to spend some time on advanced course provision , to see how others saw it and , finally , to find out how other colleges approached it . |
| 19 | A core programme , coupled with an opportunity to spend some time in the patient area of their choice , is most likely to meet the needs of the individual . |
| 20 | from 's Group Information Services department at Ipswich took the opportunity to spend some time in the USA 18 months ago , when he went to in Kansas to set up an Information Technology department . |
| 21 | In order to restore more time for you to be able to talk to your friends and socialise , an idea has been put forward that Q.T. notes could be prepared in advance of Q.T. day . |
| 22 | Elections to the 450-seat National Assembly were postponed following the Assembly 's decision on July 5 to extend its five-year mandate by a further year , in order to provide more time for it to study improvements to the one-party state . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You have to take the ball early , on the rise , in order to give less time to the opponent to prepare . |
| 25 | The rumour mill had been in high gear since late January , when the fifty-seven year old Mr Brown announced he would retire by the end of the year to devote more time to ‘ parenting ’ and to the university founded by his family in Providence , Rhode Island ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Mr. Wharton is a founding partner of the multi-national High Point plc consultancy organisation , and has moved into a non-executive role as Deputy Chairman of the group in order to devote more time to his Presidential activities . |
| 29 | These reports were confirmed by Vellayati in Bonn on Feb. 19 almost simultaneously with an appeal by Rafsanjani to delay a ground offensive in order to allow more time for a peace initiative to " materialize " . |
| 30 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |