Example sentences of "[vb base] most [prep] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These seem to be the topics that engage most of my time , and there is no evidence that any of them are freakish , minority interests . |
| 2 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 3 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 4 | All issues which the core left journals , and the left in general , spend most of their time and printed space debating . |
| 5 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |
| 6 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 7 | The contrast well with slower moving goldfish and koi , and spend most of their time just under the water surface searching for any dried food or insects which may fall onto the water . |
| 8 | They spend most of their time creating explosive devices several times more powerful than the results of gourmet vegetarian weekends , and then become Young Conservatives . |
| 9 | By contrast , the research reported here suggests that controlling is not what British solicitors — even those at the bottom end of the market — spend most of their time doing . |
| 10 | ( Thrashing is a phenomenon of instability observed in virtual memory systems when programs spend most of their time trying to acquire real resource and doing very little work . |
| 11 | In this view , women 's place is firmly in the home , providing a ‘ haven in a heartless world ’ , servicing the needs of their men — who spend most of their time in the ‘ public ’ world of work — and socialising their daughters and unmarried female servants into the ways of domesticity and sexual chastity ( Davidoff et al . , |
| 12 | Architects and planners are usually men and , in the case of local authority housing estates , not of the class of those who actually spend most of their time in the flats and houses they design . |
| 13 | This is now where the Saunders family spend most of their time , for the elegant period living rooms they created in pre-quads days are hardly the ideal environment for the boisterous rough and tumble of four 4-year-olds . |
| 14 | The idea of European citizenship may , however , seem a little absurd for those English fans who spend most of their time abroad abusing foreigners and orchestrating international hooligan networks . |
| 15 | The legs look like the sort of legs that spend most of their time running round after sheep or clasped ( for dear life ) around a large horse . |
| 16 | The true jellyfish spend most of their time as free-floating medusae with only the minimum period fixed to the rocks . |
| 17 | Puffins spend most of their time fishing out on the open ocean , but in spring , in order to nest and breed , they have to return to land . |
| 18 | Sand lizards spend most of their time in burrows underground ; we had been very lucky . |
| 19 | Though they spend most of their time at their desks managing field work and consulting senior officials in headquarters , they are in frequent contact with their staff . |
| 20 | The R & D department has three engineers who spend most of their time improving existing products . |
| 21 | Not only Kleon but the equally detested figure of Hyperbolus ( detested , that is , by Thucydides and Aristophanes ) looks a little different and more respectable when tested against documentary evidence , just as radio broadcasts of puerile exchanges in the House of Commons ignore the work on Select Committees on which most MPs spend most of their time . |
| 22 | Class sizes are generally larger than PTRs , because not all teachers actually teach ( heads , for instance , spend most of their time on administrative work ) , because marking and preparation duties restrict direct contact hours with pupils , and because sometimes classes are combined or split up for various periods . |
| 23 | Then it shows the hypocrisy of the Labour party , which claims ’ Made in Britain ’ as its slogan while its Members of Parliament drive around in French motor cars and spend most of their time denigrating British industry . |
| 24 | A glance at the list reveals that 15 of the top 20 places on the list are occupied by golfers who spend most of their time competing on the U.S.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 25 | they spend most of their time do n't they , I mean |
| 26 | Working as an au pair I spend most of my time in the house with young children , so I dress casually — usually in tracksuits or jeans . |
| 27 | And anyway , I 'm only there for a very small part of the year ; I spend most of my time at school , where there 's twelve beds to a room … dorm … and one can never be alone , it 's not allowed . ’ |
| 28 | When I 'm off the island during the winter I spend most of my time stuck in front of a computer writing reports . |
| 29 | ’ I spend most of my time working so most of my money goes in the bank for a rainy day or for my children 's education . |
| 30 | I spend most of my time working while my wife spends most of the time shopping but erm |