Example sentences of "of their time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some ministers devoted part of their time to local affairs : S. J. Smith , for example , was born in Bedford in 1822 and became a Congregational minister in Enfield after attending a denominational college and taking the London BA . |
| 2 | We think it desirable that the same type of teacher should be employed in these courses ( One-Year , Terminal and less formal ) as in University Tutorial Classes and that arrangements should be made whereby staff-tutors appointed for extra-mural work by the Universities should be encouraged to devote part of their time to less formal work , not only in the interests of the work , but also in order to provide a variety of occupation for the tutor and to ensure that he keeps in touch with all phases of the adult education movement . |
| 3 | While it was possible to identify a group of 27 libraries with staff members whose title included ‘ training ’ , ‘ development ’ or ‘ personnel ’ , they did not uniformly devote a major part of their time to training , and there were instances of authorities who named individuals apparently spending more of their time on training than ‘ named ’ training officers . |
| 4 | Authorities as a whole divided themselves clearly into three groups ( see Table 19 ) : firstly , those who said that one person or a small specified group allocated the equivalent of a quarter of their time to training , secondly , those authorities who estimated a smaller amount of one person 's time ( normally 10–15% and most commonly Deputy or Assistant Chiefs ) and thirdly , those allocating largely nominal ( or no responsibility ) for training . |
| 5 | Large libraries were just as likely as small ones to want more training officers ' time , even though they were far more likely to employ a designated training officer ( or someone who devoted at least a quarter of their time to training ) . |
| 6 | define a multidisciplinary clinical team as having professionals from different disciplines giving a significant portion of their time to the work of the group . |
| 7 | The outcome ( perhaps this would have happened whoever had been at the Ministry of Labour ) was that most of the principal figures of the Government devoted a good part of their time to assisting Steel-Maitland in his job . |
| 8 | They could devote only very little of their time to the affairs of the BDDA , and until 1922 even had to pay their own expenses . |
| 9 | They thought they could regain his soul by sorcery , and so they devoted all of their time to weaving a spell to do so . |
| 10 | The science report suggests that in the fourth and fifth years pupils should be devoting 20 per cent of their time to science . |
| 11 | Males can produce sperms at a faster rate than females can produce eggs , and are therefore selected to allocate more of their time to searching and competing for mates than are females . |
| 12 | In a study by Hall secondary heads were , however , said to devote only 14 per cent of their time to teaching , with 10 per cent given over to " ceremonial " , 10 per cent to educational policy and curriculum matters , 33 per cent to " operations and administrative management " , 22 per cent to human management ( staff and pupils ) and 10 per cent to external management ( Hall quoted in Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) ) . |
| 13 | As Liz Hannam reports , the RSPCA devote up to a third of their time to dealing with farmers and their animals , in the society 's ceaseless crusade against cruelty . |
| 14 | Primary schools devote much of their time to discussion . |
| 15 | But in a sense , they will stand a better chance of staying open and being appreciated and supported by the public , if in fact they 're going to devote a modicum of their time to explaining to the popular , population as a whole , what they 're doing , why it 's important and why they should carry on doing it . |