Example sentences of "[adv] much [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 To fill fuel tanks of the F4U-7 costs on average £1,000 , which probably explains , along with other overheads like , insurance , hangarage , maintenance , why it costs airshow organiser so much money to ‘ book ’ warbird type aircraft for display appearances .
2 LADY DAVERS : God give me patience , so much tenderness to a vile …
3 With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates .
4 As this new year begins , there 's so much work to be done …
5 When the Council was wound up in 1982 , being replaced by the Secondary Examinations Council and School Curriculum Development Committee , there was so much work to be done on the curriculum and the examination of it in the years of compulsory school that consideration of the sixth-form curriculum lapsed into comparative inertia .
6 Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done .
7 But fluoride 's toughening is not so much help to the uneven biting surfaces ; they are at risk even when people practice good oral hygiene and regularly have their teeth professionally cleaned .
8 Hector McLean the eminent scholar in Anthropology and Celtic Literature who gave so much help to J , F. Campbell in the preparation of " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " must have had a good library and another schoolmaster at Ballygrant , Neil MacAlpine , can not have compiled his Gaelic Dictionary without one .
9 She said : ‘ I think it is terrible that puppies can be dumped and left to die when the RSPCA is giving so much help to people who can not afford the vet 's bill for sterilisation .
10 Now , 100 years after his birth , we should celebrate the sunshine days of one who gave so much gladness to so many .
11 Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , asked whether it was not damaging to devote so much space to the attack , said : ‘ This conference should be discussing why this bankrupt policy is n't working .
12 But nobody else , to the best of our knowledge , gave so much attention and so much space to Rome as Timaeus ; and nobody else was so influential .
13 The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance .
14 Given such easy money , he says , researchers do not have to give so much thought to their grant proposal , as they know that it will not face such a rigorous peer review .
15 But in fact , Jackie had by then given so much thought to the sport , to its rules , its techniques , its politics , its characters , that he was unendingly fascinating .
16 In a two-Budget year , it might seem perverse to devote so much thought to the middle-distance .
17 They are now indulging in distortion and scaremongering , but they are unable to hide the record of the last 13 years that has caused so much misery to so many people .
18 By that time I was n't so much listening to that kind of stuff — I had gone through it and stopped .
19 It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning .
20 We will restore last year 's training cuts which caused so much damage to training for young people and the unemployed .
21 Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday .
22 How distressed and worried is industry in those regions that we might mistakenly have a Labour Government , which would do so much damage to inward investment ?
23 That is what has done so much damage to local government .
24 And they would n't actually cause so much damage to the paint work all the way round did n't we ?
25 Yeah but there 's so much damage to you .
26 So much enrichment to be had and that 's all that 's offered them .
27 However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [
28 PAMELA : [ generously ] I must be highly unworthy not to forgo all my little resentments for the sake of so much goodness to myself .
29 I agree entirely with that sentiment , but I find it hard to understand how she can then be so keen to hand over so much power to Brussels on decisions that affect people at a local level , whether on farming , training or whatever .
30 But so much gallantry to be squandered with so little hope !
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