Example sentences of "[modal v] spend [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Short , the director of the National Association for Gifted Children , says prodigies should spend as much time as possible with their peer group . |
| 2 | All food , but especially meat , poultry , fish and milk , should spend as little time as possible at temperatures between 5°C ( 41°F ) and 63°C ( 145°F ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a little strange … that you , the Burgermeister , should spend so much time in the theatre . ’ |
| 4 | Radical reform of initial teacher training will also mean all primary school student teachers must spend far more time in the classroom and less in college . |
| 5 | Radical reform of initial teacher training will also mean all primary school student teachers must spend far more time in the classroom and less in colleges and universities . |
| 6 | Top management might spend too much time in maintenance of the organisation ( ie with problems of administration ) and lose sight of their primary tasks of setting objectives and planning for the future . |
| 7 | You 'll spend quite long periods of time working entirely alone , but study need not be an unsociable , let alone an anti-social , process . |
| 8 | I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting . |
| 9 | ‘ Getting back to more important matters , we 've only a limited supply of food and water , so I do n't think we dare spend too much time here . |
| 10 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 11 | The person selected will spend approximately eight weeks with the RSC 's news publications department in London , working with the team that produces Chemistry in Britain and Education in Chemistry . |
| 12 | All craft students will spend about 30 hours a year in the Chinese cookery centre , which is sponsored by British Gas ( Eastern ) and Far East Industries . |
| 13 | I 'm now waiting to hear from the DHSS to see if they will spend so much money a week for storing my furniture . |
| 14 | They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children . |
| 15 | The new owners , Richard Rowlands , a solicitor , and Derota Rees-Lik , do not intend to live on the island but have said they will spend as much time there as possible . |
| 16 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 17 | A person can spend about five days there , just in the dark . |