Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be easy to dismiss this significance were it not for the fact that general or national interests continue to be important and highly effective rallying cries for much of contemporary politics . |
| 2 | Indeed this is a fresh act of God 's grace , which many a one only receives after much labour . |
| 3 | On receipt of Gaskell 's temperance rhymes , he wrote : ‘ I have read your temperance rhymes with much pleasure and can not but think that they must do good ’ ( 1840 ) . |
| 4 | I know I 've got a detached house and Marg 's got a semi , but Marg lives in much more erm |
| 5 | The Directive is needed because wildlife and habitats have undergone terrible declines in much of Europe and the rate of loss is accelerating ( in the UK , 95% of wild flower meadows , 75% of heaths , and 80% of dry grasslands have gone since the war ) . |
| 6 | These considerations emphasise the necessity of assessing each department 's staffing needs in much more detail , building up an ideal distribution of staff across the day to meet the expected peaks and troughs of work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 9 | The main concept , which goes against much traditional thinking about language , is that such change is a natural and inevitable process . |
| 10 | Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry . |
| 11 | Indeed , this debt must be recognized : while Leapor disagrees with much of ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ , she also accepts much . |
| 12 | Drummer Simon Smith , who replaced Charman at the beginning of 1988 , deals with much of the tedious organisation like booking hotels and ferries , sorting out transport to and from concerts , and driving . |
| 13 | ‘ His faculties seem to expand every day , ’ Dorothy wrote in early March ; ‘ he composes with much more facility than he did , as to the mechanism of poetry , and his ideas flow faster than he can express them . |
| 14 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 15 | A.G. Kennedy , its most recent editor , has noted that " apart from chs. 25 – 7 there is nothing that amounts to much more than injunctions that justice should be done and that every man should do his duty " . |
| 16 | Care should be taken in any discussion to establish unambiguously which convention is to be used ; failure to do so leads to much confusion later . |
| 17 | Care should be taken in any discussion to establish unambiguously which convention is to be used ; failure to do so leads to much confusion later . |
| 18 | Crisis management apart , there is the constant burden of casework which calls for much reading of detailed dossiers before reaching decisions on individual cases . |
| 19 | ( Of course this factor varies according to the character of the musical material : placid material calls for much less change than material which has a strong emotional urge . ) |
| 20 | This enlarged LFA , the areas included in which were determined in close consultation with farmers ' representatives , now takes in much land amenable for agricultural development and may increase the proportion of the UK uplands experiencing the nature conservation/agriculture conflict . |
| 21 | The constituency takes in much of the older heart of Swindon which contrasts with the newer expansion . |
| 22 | The striking resemblance between this type of mutual support and that occurring in the human species accounts for much of the fascination of the chimpanzee for man . |
| 23 | This implies a maximum depth of about 30 feet and probably accounts for much of the discrepancy between the original estimate of building costs of £12,000 and the £25,000 actually spent . |
| 24 | America 's heavy spending on military R&D accounts for much of this difference , but when military spending is removed from the figures for both countries , Dr Mowery and Dr Treece still find that the proportion of R&D financed by companies is higher in Japan . |
| 25 | As Shaw and Stockford ( 1979 , p. 122 ) state , ‘ it is the problems of implementing ‘ socially-based ’ policies for rural areas through the medium of the statutory planning system which accounts for much of the gap between society 's expectations of planning , and the results in practice' . |
| 26 | Laziness , a desire to hold on to salaries and to stay with families , accounts for much afrancesado collaboration . |
| 27 | The number of old and very old people in Scottish psychiatric hospitals accounts for much of the difference in bed numbers on the two sides of the border and reflects the poor provision of local authority run places for elderly confused people in Scotland . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Absorption by methane certainly accounts for much of this solar heating , but its abundance may be insufficient to produce the whole effect , in which case there may be an as yet unidentified absorber such as a thin suspension of black soot from the photodissociation of methane . |
| 30 | Much inter-bank lending in Eurocurrency takes place and accounts for much of the business . |