Example sentences of "time [conj] [noun sg] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there . |
| 2 | It is quite pointless for critics of evolutionary thinking to waste time and space on a denigration of the hunches of earlier phases of an evolutionary inquiry when neither contemporary sources of information nor current developments in selection theory had arisen . |
| 3 | CDC has already spent a great deal of time and money on an effort to stabilise the product , but faced with pressure from customers trying to use it , is hoping to speed the process up . |
| 4 | And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package . |
| 5 | The Beatles ( not EMI ) chose to lavish time and money on the making of the Sgt. Pepper LP , while the Beach Boys ' 1966 single ‘ Good Vibrations ’ was reputed to have been made in four different studios over six months and to have cost £5,000 . |
| 6 | It admits it lost time and money on the diversion , but believes the ACE experience taught it ‘ some important lessons . ’ |
| 7 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 8 | On land , many areas of field natural history could draw upon the enthusiasm of bird-watchers and other amateurs prepared to spend significant amounts of time and money on the study of Nature . |
| 9 | So if you are fed up wasting time and money on the ground : |
| 10 | Caulker had been deeply concerned ( and I am convinced rightly so ) that the conference concentrated its time and discussion on the provision of sophisticated and expensive technology for developing countries , ignoring the need to lay foundations in schools for fundamental growth of knowledge , skills and attitudes to understand them . |
| 11 | He said it was not usual for patients to be left alone for long periods of time and organisation on the ward involved was usually very good . |
| 12 | The form should be filled in with the completion time and date on the row } Completed Date Time{ below the row labelled } 2 . |
| 13 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 14 | It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date . |
| 15 | Until now this final result involved time and effort on the part of the host . |
| 16 | Property expert Kevin Dibben said : ‘ It 's a nice house but he has spent more time and effort on the property than it is worth . |
| 17 | Election of a conservative , on the other hand , might necessitate Gorbachev 's expending time and energy on the party in a constant battle for control . |
| 18 | In a letter he attacked Mr Brown for ‘ wasting so much time and energy on an issue which is totally irrelevant to the concerns of the British people . ’ |