Example sentences of "be spend a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , whether you 're spending a stylish weekend in Madrid or two energetic weeks on the Costa del Sol , do n't let the side down ! |
| 2 | ‘ Darling , you 're spending a bloody fortune over this one . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 4 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 5 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 6 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 7 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 8 | They should make certain that the authorities are spending a suitable amount on adult education , and that it is available locally as well as centrally . |
| 9 | In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 10 | We should be spending a great deal of our time making children into heroes , identifying good work , putting good examples of work on display and bringing it to the attention of others . |
| 11 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 12 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 13 | An imaginative PRO or press officer will be thinking up new and useful angles for in-depth feature material suitable for specific programmes or publications and will be spending a good proportion of his or her time selling them . |
| 14 | but if , if you are going to be spending a whole lot of money on tents and if these were any good |
| 15 | Now I 'm spending a small fortune on wine now . |
| 16 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 17 | Edward and Arthur Hardy were spending a short farm holiday at Horsmonden , a 2½ hour train journey away from Margate . |
| 18 | ‘ Here we are to spend a merry right , are we not , Thomas ? ’ shouted Gwendolen in a high penetrating voice , to the intense interest of those not quite so well acquainted with Dickens 's letters . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 20 | A NEWTOWNARDS man is to spend a luxury weekend in Limerick , all thanks to a balloon . |
| 21 | The procedure is to spend a few hours ( as much as you feel you need ) studying the NZ Visual Flight Guide ( an officially-produced , loose-leaf sort of Flyer VFR Organiser or Pooley 's Guide equivalent ) and getting to know the various local vagaries of VFR , as well as learning to read an interpret the New Zealand half-million charts . |
| 22 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 23 | THE Queen Mother is to spend a third night in hospital before being discharged tomorrow . |
| 24 | I have always regretted the fact that the unhappiest part of my life was spent a few miles away from Riggindale , and I never visited it . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Major , who has learned much about smiling through adversity , beamed pleasantly through adversity , beamed pleasantly through most of the play from his comfortable position next to the Pressbox on the ground where he was spent a large portion of his life . |
| 26 | Nicholson , who was spending a good deal of his time in the new BBS offices , which he hoped would be the starting point of his own aspirations towards directing , chipped in with the observation that his biker pictures had all grossed respectable money and made very handsome profits from a low outlay . |
| 27 | Finchie , meanwhile , was spending a good deal of his time at Oblatz , a bar-restaurant just across the street from the studio . |
| 28 | My two main subjects were English and music , so I was spending a large part of every day doing the things I loved most . |
| 29 | Giles Hampton was spending a short holiday in Wales . |
| 30 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |