Example sentences of "to devote [det] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A party leader who hopes to reach 10 Downing Street has to devote much time to party management , and policies and appointments have to be made with an eye on the reactions of party factions . |
| 2 | Hence he never bothered to devote much time to Spanish affairs ; wishful thinking and ignorance exposed his views on the value of Spain to a series of disillusionments . |
| 3 | For many teachers the self-appraisal failed to be a major event , either because they were not required to participate in any review activities or because they were unable or unwilling to devote much time to it . |
| 4 | Menshikov could not afford to devote much time to his Finnish duties , but " identified Finland with his own authority " . |
| 5 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 6 | Some former social therapy clients describe being asked to inform NAP of their whereabouts at all times so they could be contacted for party activity , or to hand over their children to the party 's care in order to devote more time to politics . |
| 7 | Paul Morris , a Birchfield triple jumper , reckoned that , after he and some others at his Handsworth school dropped some sports in order to devote more time to GCE preparations , the PE teacher reacted angrily : ‘ He thought we were ganging up on him as most of us were black . ’ |
| 8 | A prime requirement , whether you are thinking of paid or unpaid work , or for that matter simply planning to devote more time to your hobbies , is to remain fit and healthy . |
| 9 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 10 | Cedric Humphreys , 65 , wants to retire as clerk to St Osyth Parish Council to devote more time to his interests in amateur dramatics and music . |
| 11 | The rumour mill had been in high gear since late January , when the fifty-seven year old Mr Brown announced he would retire by the end of the year to devote more time to ‘ parenting ’ and to the university founded by his family in Providence , Rhode Island ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 12 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 13 | Now she is retiring to devote more time to her family . |
| 14 | Success allowed Frith to devote more time to leisure and to his family ; he remained a convinced Quaker . |
| 15 | At the height of the energy crisis , the enactment of the Energy Supply and Environmental Co-ordination Act of June 1974 suspended the emission standards until 1977 and 1978 to allow vehicle manufacturers to devote more time to improving fuel economy . |
| 16 | Mr. Wharton is a founding partner of the multi-national High Point plc consultancy organisation , and has moved into a non-executive role as Deputy Chairman of the group in order to devote more time to his Presidential activities . |
| 17 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 18 | ‘ I needed a complete break from the game and wanted to devote more time to my family and business . |
| 19 | ‘ I needed a complete break from the game and wanted to devote more time to my family and business . |
| 20 | At his farewell , received various gifts from the company and workmates , and said that he plans to devote more time to his allotment and to his duties of vice-chairman and bar-chairman at the Ipswich Conservative Club . |
| 21 | The programme is time-tabled over three years , with the option of an accelerated 2-year programme for those who are able to devote more time to their studies . |
| 22 | She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards . |