Example sentences of "much for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were times when things were a bit tense because they were having to do so much for themselves . |
| 2 | Wherever possible , patients should do as much for themselves as they feel able to . |
| 3 | Also many of them have little inclination to cook much for themselves when they usually have to eat alone , and they prefer to use the smallest possible number of cooking utensils , pans and dishes which have to be washed up afterwards . |
| 4 | Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others . |
| 5 | It involves a change of approach , with emphasis and priority placed on encouraging patients and clients to do as much for themselves as possible … . |
| 6 | The evacuee mothers , he maintained , ‘ seemed quite unable to do very much for themselves . |
| 7 | S so it 's , it 's , it 's either that the cadres are being rightist , they are protecting the landlords so they are keeping too much , or the problem is that the cadres , what we looked at earlier , the cadres are getting in themselves and they are taking too much for themselves . |
| 8 | Ca n't you see that much for yourself ? ’ |
| 9 | According to Nigel , ‘ everyone wants to get as much for himself and hang on to it : that 's the definition of conservatism ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ There wo n't be quite so much for everybody as usual , but it will be stronger and it wo n't make us all sick quite so easily . ’ |
| 11 | He looks after me right well , but Paddy 's son is just too much for 'im . ’ |
| 12 | The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness . |
| 13 | For a host of reasons , the nation today has much for which to be thankful . |
| 14 | Most of us went to church on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day , and I felt I had so much for which to be profoundly thankful . |
| 15 | All year , as each season reveals its particular joy , there is so much for which to be thankful . |
| 16 | Among these , there is much for which it is likely that performances could never have been contemplated by whatever scratch ensembles could furtively be gathered at clandestine celebrations held in recusant households ; these must have been composed simply as an act of faith . |
| 17 | This lunchtime we 're missing a Co-op beer-tasting and nosh up at the excellent Dragon House Chinese restaurant in Newcastle these politicians have much for which to answer . |
| 18 | This is as much for their protection as ours , ’ says Gatfield ( see Mark Melton 's and Mark Boomla 's articles for details of the legal and financial aspects of recording , publishing and other contracts ) . |
| 19 | Apart from making it easier for customers to shop at their stores , retailers started their own store card or charge card schemes as a way of adding to their ancillary profits — and reducing outgoings by not having to pay the banks so much for their credit card schemes . |
| 20 | Not even those who share the faith would get much for their money out of this one . |
| 21 | They can then be spared the basic unreality of young people triumphing in circumstances too much for their capacities as well as the inevitable thinness of emotional experience which is bound to restrict the scope of an author wanting to draw characters in the round rather than stereotypes . |
| 22 | To equip the definitions in his Dictionary , one third or so of nearly a hundred and twenty thousand quotations come from Shakespeare — many , it seems , chosen as much for their philosophical or moral point as for their usage value . |
| 23 | They looked tired , and the great , empty coffin they carried between them looked too much for their wasted strength to bear . |
| 24 | It was far too much for their daily operations , he thought . |
| 25 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 26 | The price list agreed by masters and men in 1787 was generally observed for the next twenty years and with employment brisk , knitters were able to earn , up to 1810 , 14 to 15s ( 70-75p ) a week for a twelve- to thirteen-hour day : too much for their own good , according to a local clerical magistrate . |
| 27 | ULSTER 'S triathlon juniors proved too much for their senior counterparts and stole the show at the Orbit Triathlon in Ballymoney yesterday . |
| 28 | Harris , Dr Semeonoff and J.S. Buist , Christian Aid owes much for their generous giving of time and skill . |
| 29 | There they have been exploiting the advantages of low pollution , the ability to stop and restart every few hours — sorry , every few yards — and electric cars may be introduced as much for their ability to produce low pollution , low noise , and as petrol becomes more expensive and electric cars become more widespread and better engineered and more efficient and cheaper , and more socially acceptable , then I think we will see electric cars . |
| 30 | The idea of leaving London for good — with its galleries , the opera and everything — was just too much for me . |