Example sentences of "be spend a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear they 're spending a lot of money on promotion . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah that 's what we 're spending a lot of money doing as well . |
| 3 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 4 | Now in those cases we ca n't use the normal Chow tests we 've got more parameters to estimate than we have observations , right , as a result Chow developed a second test , right , from structural change where we do n't need er erm to estimate essentially the regression in the sub sample which has got very few obser observations but in that Chow , that Chow second test is often called a test of predicted failure , right , Microfit will calculate both of those tests and bear in mind I mean that we 're spending a lot of time on er parameter constancy , we must bear in mind that parameter constancy is vitally important if we are going to make these inferences possible be about policy making on the basis of our estimates . |
| 5 | But you see they 're spending a lot of the time you know , on developing ways of repairing roads after they 've been in them . |
| 6 | because you 're spending a lot of money |
| 7 | Firstly , we are , we 're trying to ensure that wherever possible , children do n't come into care , and we 're spending a lot more money than we used to in keeping out of care ; helping families etc . |
| 8 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's been spending a lot of time round here . |
| 10 | Possibly at the church house , where , as you know , he 's been spending a lot of time recently . ’ |
| 11 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |
| 12 | My Oscars are spending a lot of time moping on the bottom of the tank . |
| 13 | They are spending a lot of money in the South West on cleaning up the beaches . |
| 14 | ‘ You are spending a lot of time there , ’ he said almost conversationally . |
| 15 | ‘ Some have been sold to private developers who are spending a lot of money on them , ’ he says . |
| 16 | We are spending a lot of money in Scotland expanding existing stores and building others . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm going to be spending a lot of money , and I ca n't afford to take chances on the builder ’ |
| 18 | I know of no fencing of the type you describe — and even if there were , you would be spending a lot of cash to install a feature that you plainly would not want , were it not for the heron 's attentions . |
| 19 | Other gaelic flavoured news this week includes the revelation that THE EDGE will be spending a lot more time poncing about in Tie-Rack cravats and spouting epigrams from now on as he 's just purchased OSCAR WILDE 's old gaff . |
| 20 | If this summer is as warm as last year 's , we 'll all be spending a lot of time out in the garden . |
| 21 | ‘ When I 'm all done here I 'll be spending a lot of time in your world . |
| 22 | You could be spending a lot of time in serious thought , much to the consternation of those around you . |
| 23 | ‘ Is it true , ’ asked Sarella dreamily after a moment , ‘ that you were spending a lot of time in London ? ’ |
| 24 | The writer 's kitten is spending a lot of time , and not a little of his owner 's patience , in developing a set of skills specifically to enable him to find and to cope with living prey . |
| 25 | Erm s that 's my general s there 's no doubt that there are a great deal of activities there as always of course when one is spending a lot of new money quite rapidly , one has to monitor it very carefully to make sure that it 's being effectively spent , and I 'm sure the director and this committee will continue to do that . |
| 26 | ‘ At the moment , yes , because Ian is spending a lot of time with Joanna . |
| 27 | He 's spent a lot of money , but he 's spent it well . |
| 28 | And though she 's spent a lot of time onstage talking about how pretty she is , it 's only quite recently she started to believe it herself . |
| 29 | And if you have a very small amount of money , and a large number of erm demands on , on that budget , then the last thing you 're going to do , is to spend a lot of money reinforcing your house for an earthquake that may affect your grandchildren and not you . |
| 30 | In the 1860s Dostoevsky was spending a lot of time abroad . |