Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] money [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 It could be that the recession is biting , and that people just do n't have the kind of money to spend on records that they used to .
2 The polytechnics , faced with the problem of increasing access or maintaining the level of money spent on each student , had made access their priority .
3 The sums of money allocated on the basis of these unreliable estimates are large : each additional child aged 5–17 in a lone-parent family attracts just over a thousand pounds in GRE .
4 What effect do changes in the amount of money have on the four macroeconomic objectives ?
5 Cuts in the amount of money spent on direct services to patients as opposed to buildings mean that in wards where few staff members care for a large number of patients standards of care fall well below tolerable levels .
6 Whether viewers agree it should go or not , the amount of money spent on it — a purpose-built set in the south of Spain cost 3 million alone — was the real nail in the coffin .
7 The Employment Department 's objections are said to concern the new Objective 4 — arguing that the changes will reduce the amount of money spent on training the long-term unemployed .
8 I know at last erm , budget meeting we talked about doing so for the entire health survey , because really the amount of money spent on sickness is quite astronomical , and one does need to look at this when you 're having to meet your budget .
9 The amount of money spent on electioneering during this period is strictly limited by law .
10 They 're simply asking for more money to spent with no concerns about the value for money , and surely it was the Conservatives who used to tell us ten or fifteen years ago , that you could n't judge the quality of a service by the amount of money spent on it .
11 Mr Smyth added he believed Treasury cash limits on the amount of money spent on security in the province was a major problem .
12 To repairing vandalism , £13.47 ; to supplying books , £11.97 N-E towns are bright spots in the school vandalism statistics Schools in Durham and North Yorkshire have bucked a national trend by recording a drop in the amount of money spent on repairing vandalised buildings .
13 While the increase in both these benefits is substantial , it is dwarfed by the increase in money spent on means-tested benefits such as supplementary benefit and housing benefit .
14 New Scientist kept its head in the euphoria and asked whether the sight of technological weapons being used to kill people might not give the public pause for thought about the amounts of money spent on military R&D , the largest consumer of research money and still growing .
15 For example , a photocopier which would only be bought by office managers and which would need fairly detailed copy to do it justice would be a waste of money to advertise on TV because the number of office managers in your audience is so tiny , and TV is not the right place to put a lot of product detail because time is so limited .
16 Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’
17 In 1062 , Bernard , count of Bigorre , had unwisely granted the bishop and canons a sum of money secured on his comté during a pilgrimage to Le Puy .
18 The others had paid a lot of money to go on this guided trip .
19 But what he said was that erm the house wanted a lot of money spending on it and he could n't afford to do it .
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