Example sentences of "much of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deaf community might well attach the label ‘ failure ’ to much of hearing society 's attempts to provide services to meet their needs . |
| 2 | Thou vauntest much of conquering me , but victory is in the hands of the Almighty , not in thine . |
| 3 | A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me . |
| 4 | I 've got a horrible feeling tat we 're doing too much of getting people ready to do low skill jobs largely from investment from outside . |
| 5 | She never tried to escape from their constant supervision , avoided both Lachlan and Farquhar like lepers , took sly slaps and pinches in silence , made much of loving her son , and could , they discovered , tell a story to make a corpse laugh . |
| 6 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 7 | Maybe these Indians can only take so much of poling Jesuits upstream and just instinctively snap and turn nasty and shove them overboard . |
| 8 | If his generosity was occasioned by concern at the growth of Edmund 's cult , and its connection with Swegen and taxation , it may have been principally an attempt to mollify the opposition by making much of patronising the saint himself . |
| 9 | So the question becomes one not so much of scoring as of affect : did Monseiur Blondel sing Hymen straight , or was the part conceived rather in a humorous vein ? |
| 10 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |
| 11 | Since much of Have I Got News For You 's allure lies in its overnight topicality , we ponder the speed and efficiency of ‘ sick ’ jokes in the school playground . |
| 12 | I shall make much of unpacking my rucksack . |
| 13 | Nobody thought that much of Carry on Sergeant . |
| 14 | Much of SAVE 's work takes the form of responses to Mayday calls from local people concerned about the imminent loss of a local landmark . |
| 15 | The enclosed fields which covered and still cover much of say Kent , Norfolk , Shropshire , Devon and Cornwall were equally medieval in origin and function or , as we have already seen , had their beginnings in perhaps prehistoric or Roman times . |