Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe that it would be right for much of the communication between teachers and parents to take that form at the reporting ages and between them . |
| 2 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 3 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 4 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 5 | Though water is solid for much of the year , the annual thaw in spring and summer provides a wide range of aquatic habitats that support biological activity , and may even allow high productivity for a few weeks each year . |
| 6 | Though water is a solid for much of the polar year , and generally poor in minerals even when in liquid form , both snow and aquatic polar habitats support life . |
| 7 | Polar ponds and lakes are limited in their energy uptake by snow-covered ice , which also inhibits wind-stirring for much of the year . |
| 8 | It was a period that I would once have dreaded : short days and biting cold , when the river , so exciting for much of the year reflects the drab January sky and the dead vegetation . |
| 9 | This meadowland or mead land was usually low-lying and damp for much of the year , but it produced an abundance of grass which was cut for hay . |
| 10 | Then her status as a functioning person is well and truly threatened and she is bereft of much beside the loss of her husband . |
| 11 | The move , while logical , proved less than popular with much of the salesforce , but the differences , which resulted in industrial action by the National Union of Insurance Workers , have now been ironed out . |
| 12 | Although from the outside Sugar looked very complete , from the inside it was very different with much of the internal equipment fittings and instruments long since gone . |
| 13 | The NSF issued decrees on Feb. 6 allowing for the establishment of small business enterprises free from much of the highly centralized system of state controls . |
| 14 | The dorsal arm plates are rectangular , slightly longer than broad , contiguous over much of the arm . |
| 15 | For more of the immaculate touch drumming of Philly Joe Jones — but I 'm afraid without much in the way of quality in the supporting cast — try ‘ Mo'Joe ’ from 1968 on Black Lion ( for Jones alone ) ; brushwork especially of the very highest order . |
| 16 | UDF posters showing mass graves recently unearthed [ see p. 37381 ] were seen as distasteful by much of the population . |
| 17 | This area was typical of much of the West of Scotland with small farms and crofts , poor soil , difficult climate , and isolation from markets . |
| 18 | It is obvious that for any group of companies to grow , a good balance is required between those which continually need cash injections to stay in business ( the capital-intensive type of enterprise which is typical of much of the chemical industry ) and those which can generate very high profits and throw off cash when things are going well . |
| 19 | The ideas pioneered in many of the courses which followed on from the ABC document are now central to much of the thinking behind records of achievement . |
| 20 | In the wake of such a wave would come the commitment to criterion-referenced , positive statements : to teacher-assessment and to a skills-oriented curriculum , identified earlier as the elements in a new certification consensus ; to the principles of curriculum depth , breadth , balance and differentiation integral to the design of GCSE and also central to much of the thinking about records of achievement . |
| 21 | The poignancy and resonance of everyday objects as symbols of personal or collective histories , as expressions of absence and presence , which this story exemplifies , is central to much of the work in the BT New Contemporaries 1992 . |
| 22 | These markets had been greatly depressed throughout much of the 1770s , and Chalford , perhaps more so than other clothing areas , suffered badly . |
| 23 | The laws legalising homosexuality were a typical example of benign British hypocrisy , but they left us unprepared for much of the debate that would follow a then unforeseeable epidemic . |
| 24 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 25 | In the same way the Emperor Leopold II approved of much of the work of the Constituent Assembly . |
| 26 | The reduction of mortality from both stroke and ischaemic heart disease are characteristic of much of the developed world . |
| 27 | The offensive was launched on 18 June but was deeply unpopular with much of the rank and file and collapsed in the first week of July . |
| 28 | Given that President George Bush was implacably opposed to abortion under circumstances other than rape , incest and maternal risk , the bill offered the prospect of forcing him to exercise a veto which would be unpopular among much of the electorate and among a significant portion of the Republican Party . |
| 29 | Tall , blond and muscular , he was without doubt one peach of a downhill racer , but he was also unsophisticated — he was a baker during off-piste season — and clearly bewildered by much of the attention he was getting après ski . |
| 30 | For the layout shows a Roman palace left almost complete with much of the walls , towers and gates standing . |