Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] spend [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist psychologists acknowledge that low-status , female-identified traits , like nurturance and sociability , are also important for both sexes ; but they do not spend much time comparing men with women on these traits . |
| 2 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 3 | As a profession , we in medicine do not spend much time thinking about our philosophy . |
| 4 | Children generally suffer from too much control between school and television and do not spend enough time developing on their own . |
| 5 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 6 | What they do n't spend much time on is the way in which you are supposed to approach learning the new skills . |
| 7 | So really , I do n't spend much time on it at all — five minutes maximum ! |
| 8 | " I do n't spend much time thinking about liking or not liking , " he said . |
| 9 | So do n't spend much time on that . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't spend much time here either , ’ she commented . |
| 11 | I do n't spend enough time watching programmes , I will get back to that now . |
| 12 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |
| 13 | Yet , because of other commitments , I have arguably spent less time than ever with my fish . |
| 14 | They have always spent considerable time visiting schools ; in the nineteenth century there were regular visits , including during the period of payment by results ( 1862–1898 ) when the outcome of an inspection , involving assessing the children 's performance , determined whether or not the school received funds . |
| 15 | But their philosophy comes pouring out , and you realise that they certainly have n't spent much time thinking about any aspect of their behaviour , or the kind of images they project , let alone strange and isolated postures . |
| 16 | We have n't spent much time discussing our personal lives , have we ? ’ |
| 17 | Since that day I have never spent much time at the green table and , once I got out into the world of journalism , worked hard at it . |