Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had an inconsistent side to handle for much of the summer . |
| 2 | This species is the main alternative to spruce in much of the Uplands but has a much reduced capacity to take up sulphur compounds than any forest when assessed on the basis of weight per unit area . |
| 3 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 4 | People seem to prefer that which is informal , spontaneous and unrehearsed , and the lack of stimulus presented by much of the ‘ new look ’ music makes it difficult to persuade musicians to be committed on a regular basis . |
| 5 | Hence , Cnut 's inheritance was international and many-faceted : there were numerous opportunities to be taken , pitfalls to be avoided and problems to be overcome , both at home and abroad , before his dominion and influence extended over much of the northern world , and merited the title by which his fellow Scandinavians know him today : Knut den store — Cnut the Great . |
| 6 | The setbacks include mass unemployment , decline of Labour , loss of members , privatization of parts of the public sector , cash limits in much of the public sector , which limited opportunities for bargaining , government initiated incursions into their internal affairs , and minimal access to Whitehall . |
| 7 | A common theme emerging from much of the second tradition of cross-national research is that it becomes possible to examine the complex ways in which national industrial relations variations are bound up with wider processes of political and economic development , particularly the phasing of industrial development ( as in Dore 's work ) , the nature of the state and underlying class relations . |
| 8 | As Nisbet points out in his review of the ‘ sociological tradition ’ , the thesis of the eclipse of an older form of community recurs throughout much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century sociological tradition . |
| 9 | The constituency takes in much of the older heart of Swindon which contrasts with the newer expansion . |
| 10 | There are two Brazils , one seen by many international visitors , the other found in much of the country . |
| 11 | The method of enquiry employed in much of the work within the comparative field proceeds at the empirical level and arrives at more general conclusions through a process of inductive reasoning , or more ad hoc interpretive insights . |
| 12 | The importance of continuity has in some ways been underlined by the approach adopted in much of the Western , particularly US , scholarship on Japanese development . |
| 13 | A stained glass window lights the stairs , his initials in Gothic lettering appear in much of the decoration , and dark woodwork pervades all . |
| 14 | Apart from certain legal hands , the most difficult he will need to master will be the so-called ‘ secretary ’ hand used for much of the Tudor period . |
| 15 | The transfer of these women from general practitioner care to hospital care accounts for much of the apparent mortality advantage of general practitioner units , a finding that contrasts with Tew 's observations . |
| 16 | That need for compromise arose from a feature shared by much of the Greco-Roman world : ancient states , being reliant on agriculture , faced a permanent struggle to prevent civic assemblies from being dominated by the urban population ; Rome solved this by eventually allowing dual citizenship — that is , citizenship both of Rome and of the home community whose constitution would be modelled , in a municipal way , on that of often faraway Rome . |
| 17 | Conditions improved after 1933 , but a measure of agricultural depression persisted through much of the 1930s . |