Example sentences of "not spend [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all here , so why not spend that holiday at home this year and give a boost to our much needed travel industry and tourism industry in this country ? |
| 2 | I can not spend all day with her , I have the house to run , things to do . ’ |
| 3 | For citizens can not spend all their time being nationalists : they have to take time off to be members of families , producers , local government councillors and the like . |
| 4 | You can not spend all your time cooking and cleaning and working . |
| 5 | The other is that draughtsmen do not spend all their time actually drawing . |
| 6 | These are necessary and you can not spend all of your time studying . |
| 7 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 8 | So I did not spend all my time peering upwards , searching the skies for those rumoured golden eagles . |
| 9 | He should not spend all his time on a few only of the questions . |
| 10 | " I trust you will not spend all your time hunting , Madame Sherman , " he added , smiling for the first time . |
| 11 | Even the written word , by conjuring up the Eliot tone of voice , could express this kind of humorous gravity , for example , his remark in the ‘ Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry ’ that ‘ we can not spend all our time reading large philosophical works ’ . |
| 12 | Obviously the leaders of major organisations can not spend much of their time in schools , but their occasional visits would complement the very valuable support which can be given on a regular and consistent basis by businesses and people who work within them . |
| 13 | Although we need not spend much time on it , it is important to be clear that Marxism is atheistic . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ) . |
| 16 | As a profession , we in medicine do not spend much time thinking about our philosophy . |
| 17 | We will not spend much time on the syllabic pronunciation of these consonants . |
| 18 | However , if their efforts were crowned with success in the form of wealth , they could not spend this profit on worldly goods and comforts , since their religion forbade this . |
| 19 | A local authority shall not spend this money on any purpose authorised by other legislation . |
| 20 | And er at that time when it was being mooted the , the council could not spend this charitable trust money without putting into jeopardy vast sums of money from revenue grant |
| 21 | If he really supports the work of the east London TEC , he should not be saying that firms should not spend 0.5 per cent . |
| 22 | I dare not spend another farthing , and it would be suicide for me to go to the bank , even if Richard agreed , which he wo n't . ’ |
| 23 | If you find that your taste for salt is slow to disappear , there is no reason why you should not spend three or even four weeks on each goal . |
| 24 | Surely it must be tantamount to neglect of the safety of our railways if we do not spend more and more money on a system which can give early warning . |
| 25 | It is a pity that we can not spend more time just looking at some of the issues — for example , clause 28 , which is quite important — which affect adult education . |
| 26 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 27 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 28 | We will not spend more time here on looking at the problems , but go on to look at some generalisations about suffixes and stress . |
| 29 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 30 | On the weight-loss programme in Part-Two you should not spend any more than usual on your week 's shopping . |