Example sentences of "[noun sg] is spent on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As income increases and a greater proportion is spent on non-essential goods , the percentage of the population who own a particular product also increases . |
| 2 | Of the £3124 million spent on community care a considerable amount is spent on older people ; 63 per cent of all expenditure is spent on residential care . |
| 3 | Much money is spent on political commercials , but students of the subject are sceptical about their benefit — a viewpoint reinforced in 1980 by the experience of John Connally , one of Reagan 's most feared rivals for the nomination . |
| 4 | A house that is furnished with good quality used furniture is generally much more interesting and more tastefully decorated than when twice the money is spent on new furniture that may not be a tenth of the quality . |
| 5 | An important priority is to ensure that extra income is spent on extra activity . |
| 6 | of the advertising budget is spent on electoral registration . |
| 7 | The second year of the course is spent on industrial placement which helps students to relate theory to practice and to make more informed career choices . |
| 8 | How does the Prime Minister justify sending his son to a private school where nearly £4,000 a year is spent on each child when at present half the children in Tory-run Cambridgeshire 's secondary schools receive only half that amount and when that authority is currently reducing its budget by almost £2 million ? |
| 9 | The third year is spent on paid placement , working in the computing function of an organization . |
| 10 | It found that more than £300million a year is spent on employing staff to type for 600,000 civil servants and 22 cabinet ministers . |
| 11 | Of the £3124 million spent on community care a considerable amount is spent on older people ; 63 per cent of all expenditure is spent on residential care . |
| 12 | Erm a green form is a , a it 's , gr green , green form money is money which is given by the Law Society erm depending on how much work , how much time is spent on each case |
| 13 | In a class where almost half the time is spent on administrative matters , the time left over for active engagement in learning tasks is severely curtailed . |
| 14 | At first glance it may seem that the TPS in Mid Glamorgan has become diluted as more and more time is spent on other partnership activities . |
| 15 | Perhaps I am being unnecessarily cynical but it seems that too much of a designer maker 's time is spent on public relations and maintaining the image and there is less willingness to share the things learned from technical and creative nightmares . |
| 16 | Some 90 per cent of the adviser 's time is spent on medical appeal tribunals and reviews of Department of Social Security benefits for disabled people . |