Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | We argued for much greater prominence to be given to the potential of genuine pupil-pupil collaboration , and less to low-level writing , reading and drawing tasks . |
| 2 | The system offered by the CNAA had the advantage that it drew upon much wider academic expertise than any single institution could offer . |
| 3 | He soon moved to much larger premises in Park Lane , and later to even larger offices at Piccadilly Circus in 1947 . |
| 4 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 5 | He promised to much . |
| 6 | I would like to see the ‘ advance ’ man ( or woman ) used to much greater effect in this country . |
| 7 | I PLAYED WI' MUCH BIGGER TITS AT ST MIRREN . ’ |
| 8 | Belinda 's heart thudded at the sound of his name , and it seemed like much longer than a day since she had last seen him . |
| 9 | My own investigations into the NT , based on the full data provided by the Friberg Analytical NT , came to much less dramatic conclusions than Morton . |
| 10 | said that people are losing all interest in the election and they 've got no faith in any of parties they all seemed to much alike and all fund ranges |
| 11 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 12 | Trade union development was one of slow growth in membership until the mid 1960s followed by much faster recruitment until , by the early 1970s , over half the workforce was unionised [ Clegg , 1972 ] . |
| 13 | The Report also called for much stricter consent conditions for each works and explored the desirability of transferring sewage loadings either within the catchment or by diversion to the Edinburgh sewerage system . |
| 14 | The post-1979 managerial emphasis in central administration was not wholly new : indeed , it started from much the same principle as Fulton — that civil servants needed to adopt a more business-like approach and drew upon a number of Fulton 's ideas about departmental organization ( see Chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 15 | Reforms in US monetary policy from 1979 — which led to much tighter monetary conditions and higher interest rates — paved the way for a resurgence in the dollar in the early 1980s , supported by the increased demands arising from the second oil crisis . |
| 16 | Then again Brandt 's ‘ Ostpolitik ’ was popular with German voters and it was difficult for the CDU to oppose the greatest prize of all , the 1971 Berlin agreements , which led to much greater access between the two halves of Berlin . |
| 17 | Victorious campaigns , such as those of Henry V , led to much larger gains . |
| 18 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |
| 19 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 20 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 21 | It never amounted to much , a few petty annoyances . |
| 22 | If positions and viewpoints are too easily set aside they might be regarded by other people as not having , even in the first place , amounted to much . |
| 23 | The British and Japanese went for much more cautious moves in a deregulatory direction . |
| 24 | Outside this borough , however , only Dedham counted for much . |
| 25 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 26 | The exception is an instructive one , because the Irish priests lived at much the same social and economic level as their flock ; they held their communities together and sustained their faith in a way that only Dissenting ministers in Wales and remoter parts of England were able to do . |
| 27 | In Germany it continued for much longer . |
| 28 | This function of ‘ prologue ’ ( and of ‘ epilogue ’ or in the medieval case concluding homily ) continued into much later drama . |
| 29 | First , they responded to much slower movements than the other group — so slow , in fact , that they could easily detect the motion of the sun or stars through the sky . |
| 30 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |