Example sentences of "[adj] time to [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preferably an ex 39 Squadron member or any ex-RAF personnel who might feel able to dedicate some time to assisting the Group 's efforts at North Weald . |
| 2 | Sociologists and political scientists have devoted much time to developing a variety of theories on the determination of public sector expenditure . |
| 3 | It was clear that Alistair Bruce and John Moir would have to devote their entire time to preparing the case for the four families . |
| 4 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 5 | For days before Hallowe'en several men devoted their spare time to preparing the track ; the grass was trimmed , weeds and stones removed , hollows and gullies washed out by the rain were filled and the whole course was meticulously surveyed for snags and bumps . |
| 6 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 7 | I heard no more on the subject ; and if this meant that I had failed to persuade Eliot to devote precious time to reading the book , I was more relieved than otherwise . |
| 8 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |