Example sentences of "of time [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |
| 2 | Geese spend a lot of time flying to other places . |
| 3 | I spent a lot of time listening to records and just hanging out with friends . |
| 4 | Comparison with teaching in a traditional classroom course of the same length of time led to the use of CAI for all the SCORPIO training . |
| 5 | You should continue to keep the time log to see whether the actual use of time conforms to the goals you set in the Action Plan . |
| 6 | A ward sister may perceive the student who spends a lot of time chatting to a particular patient as wasting her time when there is work to do , whilst the student may see herself as legitimately practising her ‘ social interaction skills ’ , and attending to the psychological needs of the patient . |
| 7 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 8 | I had allowed plenty of time to return to the Commons to vote , but the train was one and a half hours late . |
| 9 | Others may have shared my depression at the spectacle of party activists of various political persuasions sitting , stopwatch in hand , to measure the amount of time given to their views compared with those of their opponents . |
| 10 | The amount of time given to the development of the basics , the school 's approach to equal opportunities , special needs work , sex education , multi-cultural and anti-racist education and pupil assessment will be seen in action . |
| 11 | Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects . |
| 12 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 13 | I regularly take such groups of boys walking , and sometimes spend a lot of time apologising to other walkers . |
| 14 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 15 | She went back to her sleeping-bag , with the feeling that a lot of time had to be got through before Jasper came home to her . |
| 16 | He would point out that scientific projects need a great deal of time to come to fruition , and premature publication of , er , data can damage progress . |
| 17 | Being unmarried and childless she was unaware that many quite normal women spent a great deal of time talking to and feeding people whom they would not , themselves , have chosen to entertain . |
| 18 | Erm Ray raised an interesting point , loading for management time , for example Ray would argue that he spends a disproportionate amount of time travelling to meetings , more than any of the other members |
| 19 | So they have plenty of time to grow to a respectable size and are merely carried passively up to the surface with the rest of the magma when it is erupted , and are distributed uniformly throughout it . |
| 20 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 21 | Their lifestyle contains all the ingredients that for us make up ‘ the good life ’ — plenty of time devoted to playing , socialising , and making love . |
| 22 | However it should be emphasized that nominal responsibility is not necessarily indicative of time devoted to training . |
| 23 | Even formal titling is not necessarily indicative of time devoted to training . |
| 24 | It was interesting to note that the responses to the CRUS question as to whether a member of library staff was designated as training officer also indicated that title held is not necessarily indicative of time devoted to training . |
| 25 | Neither does it mention the research and testing that can follow or the amount of time devoted to theoretical and documentary investigation . |
| 26 | As adults , the only activity which rivals TV-viewing ( in terms of time devoted to it ) is sleeping . |
| 27 | The probability of successful removal of all such objects in a short space of time tends to be very low and , on some types of storage , extremely difficult or impossible . |
| 28 | the skills or subjects taught and the amount of time allocated to each ; |
| 29 | For example , a further group of authorities indicated that although nominal responsibility had been allocated , involvement in terms of time allocated to training was very low . |
| 30 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |