Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] much [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selmer used a well-known paint specialist called Derek Adams , who put finishes on much of the British guitar output of the time — Watkins , etc. — and the ‘ pink ’ Fenders you refer to were Derek Adams ' attempt at Fiesta Red . |
| 2 | GERMANY THE SHOWCASE for PR is Germany , which has enjoyed stable coalition governments for much of the post-war era . |
| 3 | Behind the impressive Georgian facades of much of the present High Street lie substantial Tudor timber frames . |
| 4 | Hamid 's prosecution caused protests in much of the Egyptian press , and there was particular disquiet due to the fact that the emergency laws introduced in 1981-82 had been resorted to , and that the Prime Minister had not used his prerogative to order a retrial or to reduce the sentence . |
| 5 | IN MOST respects 1990 has been very successful for , despite the gloomy predictions for much of the agricultural industry and the dismal annual reports from a number of competitors in the feed industry . |
| 6 | Although the port prospered in part , particularly as a base for privateering depredations on foreign ships , the dues which might have increased the town 's wealth were hard to collect , and attempts to extend port rights over much of the coastal plain met with little success . |
| 7 | Rubber , tea and other cash crops made similarly rapid and extensive inroads in much of the Southern Band in the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 8 | In both countries the high levels of unionisation and low unemployment rates for much of the post-war period gave workers significant leverage in workplace negotiations . |
| 9 | It was said , in effect , that the extent of , say , carbonate deposits over a few square miles in the Bahamas at the present day is something quite different from the persistence of carbonates in early Carboniferous times over much of the northern hemisphere . |
| 10 | Morality and pacifist emotion were the driving forces behind much of the uninformed criticism of the Sandys Reformation . |
| 11 | Pointing out the pitfalls of much of the past research , he drew on his study of 125 65-year-old men to argue that those who had recently retired were a ‘ transitional ’ group between those still in full-time employment and those settled into retirement ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 12 | There have been conflicting reports about much of the 36-year-old bachelor 's background . |
| 13 | To state the relevant causal circumstance , would we not have to do what we can hardly hope to do , which is to enumerate parts of much of the whole state of the universe at or during a time ? |