Example sentences of "is much [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although many of the activities involved are carried out by individuals , and there is much scope for personal decision-making making and responsibility , the business of maintaining a safe environment is very much a political concern and responsibility — at local , regional , national and international levels .
2 Providing one sticks to primates there is much scope for successful extrapolation .
3 As health services are run by elected authorities , there is much scope for ‘ municipal socialism ’ in the administration of mental health .
4 The rate at which people can be absorbed into the public social service sector , or are willing and able to enter it , does not depend on the social planners alone , and there is much scope for improvement in our whole approach to manpower and womanpower problems .
5 There is much scope for investigations of public bureaucracies in these terms .
6 There is much scope for individuality and creativity in this method of promotion .
7 My hon. Friend will be aware that there is much disquiet in Warwickshire and elsewhere about the standard spending assessment and the result of the revenue support grant — At least I get support on some occasions from Labour Members .
8 There is much speculation about the advent of fifth-generation machines which , it is proposed , will be capable of learning , extrapolation , ratiocination and imagination — and hence , possibly , of something that we would recognize as emotion .
9 There is much speculation where it will be found running once it is complete .
10 There is much speculation now that Graf 's frequent illnesses at the biggest events are caused largely by stress .
11 Amongst the activists in branch , at branch and constituency level there is much speculation about the parliamentary leadership 's desire to br bring in one member one vote .
12 THERE is much concern in the US about the addiction to ‘ crack ’ ( purified cocaine ) within inner-city communities .
13 There is much concern in schools and local education authorities for the speed of implementation of the programme , about the need to protect the educational entitlement of all young people during the period of implementation and for the level of resources being made available during the period of change .
14 Near a town there is much competition for land and so values are high .
15 It is one in which a repertory with a large a cappella element is cultivated on a daily basis by men and ( usually ) boys , all of them relatively young , who hold positions in a cathedral or chapel ( often for a relatively short time ) for which there is much competition .
16 If the cough persists without improvement for a week or more and there is much weakness , tiredness and lack of energy .
17 There is much experimentation on letting people set their own targets .
18 In the whole of this area the earth is dark and there is much surface pottery tile and evidence of burning and metal working .
19 As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale .
20 Not that there is much chance of prosecution .
21 There is much conviviality and noise .
22 There is much work to be done in preparation , says Buckle .
23 Why is much work needed now to repair and renew the infrastructure of central Scotland , by building new docks , airports , motorways , pipelines , electricity lines and sewage systems ?
24 There is much work to be done .
25 There is much work to be done in enumerating the real needs of minority elders for services and to develop services which respond to the cultural needs of these communities .
26 There is much work to be done here .
27 While such research can be of value , there is much work which can only be done on " live " systems .
28 But there is much work to be done with the econometric modelling of rational expectations and of innovative behaviour in financial markets before their policy implications can be fully understood .
29 ‘ Ah , ’ said the white man , ‘ but I would n't say there is much hate in Rhodesia .
30 ‘ It appears , as a general finding , that there is much cynicism amongst primary school teachers about the possibility of innovation in curricula when teaching is under its present constraint .
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