Example sentences of "[adv] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently Douglas has developed these ideas in a book which collects together much material in the urban environment from a physical geography point of view but perhaps also leads towards his view that ( Douglas , 1981 , p. 360 ) : |
| 2 | Group 1 : Tests which require large amounts of sensory input These tasks require a simple response and not much thought , coupled with the need to sift through large amounts of data in order to find a ‘ target ’ amongst unwanted information ( fig. 5.2 ) . |
| 3 | There 's lots of information in this exhibition , not much thought . |
| 4 | They do n't take up much space . |
| 5 | But they do need to be small enough to fit on the cover without taking up much space , and light enough not to tear the paper . |
| 6 | MARILYN MORGAN , section manager , in-store training , East Filton : ‘ We sell batteries but not watch batteries — they do n't take up much space . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was a Classic in my youth , madam , and although I have always been deeply interested in the works of the Roman poets and the Roman historians I have never been able to summon up much enthusiasm for Roman architecture . |
| 8 | Small machines like the Olivetti PCS 33 and the Packard Bell Elite 1000 do n't take up much desk space , but they do n't leave you with much room for future expansion either . |
| 9 | Only Haynes and Logie put up much resistance and 154 all out , with conditions improving all the time , presented England with few problems ; had the situation been reversed , one knew that West Indies would have won by eight or nine wickets , but English fans were happy enough to have six still in hand . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think he 'll put up much resistance this time , ’ Kolchinsky replied then paused to light a cigarette . |
| 11 | Curzon was appointed chairman of committees in the House of Lords ( 1775–89 ) , which took up much time , but provided a regular income to help in completing the house . |
| 12 | I do not wish to take up much time other than to remind the Minister of the five-point agenda with which the NFU would like him to be armed in the poker games of Europe . |
| 13 | In-service training takes up much time and expense , items in short supply in schools and school library services . |
| 14 | It does n't take up much room . |
| 15 | Chives will grow in such a situation , and their narrow , tall shape does not take up much room even if it is vertical . |
| 16 | Although in the first war years the Party substantially cut down the number of meetings devoted to ‘ training ’ in ideological matters — which had never enjoyed much popularity — and concentrated in its regular work in the localities on trying to fulfil ‘ the popular demand for a more lively participation in the events of the day ’ , as one report put it , it was unable to build up much interest in Party work or to enhance the popularity of the local Party organizations . |
| 17 | Although some consider that this method of electricity generation offers one of the synthetic fuel industry 's best options , the project has stirred up much opposition from those believing its contribution — 4,300 barrels of oil daily — a drop in the ocean . |
| 18 | Charlton have Pates back in their defence but after seven League matches without a win can not hold out much hope of getting off the bottom this afternoon . |
| 19 | When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she did n't hold out much hope of prising his purse open . |
| 20 | She had only three members of her immediate family left in Bosnia but did not hold out much hope of getting them out . |
| 21 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 22 | ‘ The London business is available for sale but I do n't hold out much hope of finding a buyer . ’ |
| 23 | There are radiators in the attic but they do not give out much warmth . |
| 24 | Increased reliance on Moscow may now hold out much prospect of improvement in growth , productivity or living standards , but intra-bloc trade at least offers assured markets , predictable performance benchmarks , and the kind of long-term trading agreements which are the staple of central planning and of central planners . |
| 25 | Hard to make out much detail of his appearance , the lighting was bad . |
| 26 | Briefly ( leaving out much detail ) , the oral world-view is encoded through such characteristics as the embedding of music in everyday life ; direct , often improvisatory , unreflective composition ; use of traditional repeated units ; prevalence of monophony ; prevalence of pentatonic tonality ( which encodes social mutuality ) ; inflected pitch relationships ; ‘ dirty ’ timbres ; and irregular rhythmic patterning , often stressing rhythmic interplay . |
| 27 | The early astrozoologists , hauled back from their long dangle by enormous teams of slaves , were able to bring back much information about the shape and nature of A'Tuin and the elephants but this did not resolve fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of the universe . |
| 28 | Some firms like BP try to use as much North Sea crude as possible , because it has a lower sulphur content than Arabian Gulf oil . |
| 29 | Some years ago much interest was shown in the production of Single Cell Protein ( SCP ) either by the bacterial degradation of oil products or by the intensive culturing of algae in a medium containing inorganic nitrogen compounds . |
| 30 | Once an explanation — any explanation — has been produced , people tend to stick with it , no matter how much evidence thereafter appears to contradict it . |