Example sentences of "[vb -s] for 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 | Crisis management apart , there is the constant burden of casework which calls for much reading of detailed dossiers before reaching decisions on individual cases . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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' . |
| 8 | Laziness , a desire to hold on to salaries and to stay with families , accounts for much afrancesado collaboration . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Much inter-bank lending in Eurocurrency takes place and accounts for much of the business . |
| 13 | Investment is sometimes thought of as the most dynamic element in the economy — it probably accounts for much of the cyclical instability in the economy and is an important determinant of economic growth . |
| 14 | The best solution , so officials have decided , is to ‘ privatise ’ the system , and , along with it , the series of weather craft on which the world relies for much of its meteorological information . |
| 15 | The world relies for much of its weather data on a network of satellites , which are either stationed in a fixed position above the equator or which travel over the poles to scan the globe . |