Example sentences of "time [conj] energy " in BNC.
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| 1 | When taken together with walking , cycling is thought to be between ten and forty times as energy efficient , as motorised transport ( Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 2 | It is not really , I suppose , a bad school as schools go but it is a sorry waste of time & energy … |
| 3 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 4 | All the men in the University seemed to be married or gay or scientists , and Robyn had no time or energy to look further afield . |
| 5 | We did n't have the time or energy to pay much attention to the other theatres of war , unless we had someone out there . |
| 6 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
| 7 | He wanted people to get on with the urgent business of living the good life set out in the Eightfold Path , and not to waste time or energy in speculation and debate . |
| 8 | Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies . |
| 9 | Preoccupied with clinging to the remnants of their well-being , there is no time or energy left over for anything grander . |
| 10 | In any case , few men or women had sufficient time or energy after long hours of farm labouring or housework to devote to a garden or allotment . |
| 11 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 12 | Efficiency ( or productivity ) is an economic concept — a measure of relative outputs for given inputs , of time or energy or effort . |
| 13 | They do not have the time or energy to take on recruitment seriously . |
| 14 | They do not have the time or energy to take on recruitment seriously . |
| 15 | She wanted to be so busy she would n't have either time or energy to wonder about him , to dream , or hope . |
| 16 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 17 | There was no time or energy for anyone to do anything but get through the long gruelling hours and fall into bed , usually after midnight and on the night before the opening , at three in the morning . |
| 18 | But concentrating as she was on simply surviving , she had neither time nor energy enough . |
| 19 | I gave thanks that I had time and energy to simply enjoy and absorb . |
| 20 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 21 | Their very excellence makes heavy demands on the time and energy of their teaching faculty , so people who stay long in such places rarely produce the books and articles commonly published by their counterparts in bigger universities , and are therefore often little known outside their own institutions . |
| 22 | Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch , in efforts to promote their own debit cards . |
| 23 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 24 | Why waste time and energy on sponsors when the runners are prepared to pay to suffer ? |
| 25 | As in Nikol'skaia volost , all fifty-nine Poltava cells spent nearly all their time and energy on tax-collecting and expediting administrative directives from higher authorities . |
| 26 | From about 1864 on , much of Marx 's time and energy was spent in connection with the setting up of the international association of working men , the first International . |
| 27 | Tell him that you do love him , but you will have very little time and energy to show that love while you are forced to worry about where the next meal is coming from . |
| 28 | He has devoted time and energy to people because it is the people who will one day be his subjects , and he feels a sense of responsibility towards them ; but he will also be King of the British Isles , and has a responsibility to safeguard those Isles for future generations . |
| 29 | Realistic prices are still hard to find in the land market , according to a would-be farm purchaser whose quests for a viable farm has taken up most of his time and energy for over a year . |
| 30 | These avenues have not only taken up a lot of the time and energy of the present generation of activists but they have also reduced the reliance on the politics of the street demonstration by presenting alternative means of expression and action . |