Example sentences of "spending a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 4 | Finchie , meanwhile , was spending a good deal of his time at Oblatz , a bar-restaurant just across the street from the studio . |
| 5 | Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Spend a Saturday lunch time in any town in Britain and you are bound to come across several fast food outlets crowded with teenagers , young children and their parents spending a great deal of money . |
| 8 | He carried out this aspect of his work assiduously , spending a great deal of time obtaining detailed accounts of Soviet work of significant practical use to British academics in disciplines ranging from ergonomics to biotechnology . |
| 9 | This does not necessarily mean spending a great deal of money on it , but careful and considerate planning of the whole day . |
| 10 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |
| 11 | Spending a great deal of time trying to achieve these goals will be unproductive and frustrating . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The practical problem of choosing a course of action is compounded by the difficulty of predicting the consequences of a particular pollution without spending a great deal of precious time on the problem : |
| 14 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 15 | In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 16 | As well as spending a great deal of time servicing existing customers we are constantly looking for new opportunities in developing markets around the world . |
| 17 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 18 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 19 | The council is still spending a fair amount of its budget on tourism . |
| 20 | but if , if you are going to be spending a whole lot of money on tents and if these were any good |
| 21 | In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations . |
| 22 | While these items closely reflect developmental research on the child 's mastery of two-word utterances , it seems unlikely that even an experienced therapist or teacher would be able to complete the checklist without spending a considerable amount of time with each individual child being assessed . |
| 23 | Most of them , and particularly the larger ones , combined slow , flapping flight with gliding , spending a large part of their lives effortlessly aloft . |
| 24 | My two main subjects were English and music , so I was spending a large part of every day doing the things I loved most . |
| 25 | Very careful thought is needed , though , before taking the big step of spending a large sum of money to purchase a regular income , for there can be snags , and it is wise to get quotations from several of the major insurance companies , and the advice of a solicitor , before proceeding . |
| 26 | All of a sudden several unpleasant consequences of spending a large amount of time alone with fitzAlan , without so much as a spit-boy for chaperon , rose forcibly to her mind . |
| 27 | However , the rewards of spending a significant amount of time with your offspring brings great spiritual benefit . |
| 28 | There 's no point in us spending a horrendous amount of money on the site if we 've no control over it . ’ |
| 29 | By contrast , an effectively constituted team will move through each of the stages , spending a maximum amount of time in the ‘ performing ’ stage ( see Figure 5.4b ) . |