Example sentences of "be [prep] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 2 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 3 | The exceptions cost a percentage of most business training courses and are worth much more . |
| 4 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 5 | Media spend on the personal care brands through LH-S totalled just over £1m , but the brands have historically been worth much more . |
| 6 | Whatever serious business was discussed by the two Emperors remains unrecorded , but it is unlikely to have been of much substance , for Napoleon III found that his host was constrained by the new constitutional structure which had emerged after the defeat of 1866 . |
| 7 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid I have n't been of much help to you , Mr Millet . ’ |
| 9 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 10 | He took a pristine white handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbed at the faint hand-print Kenneth had left on the glass partition as he said , ‘ These passivation glasses are of much use in the semi-conductor industry , and we have high hopes that with the burgeoning of the Scottish computer industry Silicon Glen as it is sometimes jocularly called — we shall shortly be supplying … ’ |
| 11 | In abandoning the sutures as a method of ageing , few features of the skull except the dentition are of much use for our purpose . |
| 12 | It is possible that these 16 treatment comparisons across blocks are of much less interest than the 12 within-block comparisons and we can be satisfied with what are effectively two separate four-plot experiments . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think you 're in much danger . ’ |
| 14 | This assumption has been behind much of the conservative reaction to the ‘ Gorbachev phenomenon ’ . |
| 15 | We were conservative in our working habits , Emily Lightbody and I , as I am in much else . |
| 16 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 17 | Balance sheets are usually produced for each account , but the operating accounts are in much more detail : the General Fund will be segregated into , for example , education , public health , roads . |
| 18 | Invest in a good piece now : later , it will be worth much more , ’ he says , gesturing towards tip worktables , fire irons , needlework samplers and silk pictures . |
| 19 | I 've seen loads of rings like this , so they ca n't be worth much . ’ |
| 20 | You constantly discount yourself : ‘ My opinion may not be worth much but … ’ |
| 21 | A manor , it now seems unnecessary to reiterate , might be worth much or little , depending on a combination of factors : the size of the demensne and the efficiency of its management , whether the customary fines were certain or arbitrary , and if the latter , the vigour with which they were exploited . |
| 22 | Assuming the cardboard box was full of letters and that each one carried a stamp — used stamps of Natal and Cape Province between the years say , 1850 and 1890 — would they be worth much ? |
| 23 | No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land . |
| 24 | Of course , SERPS rights had to be forfeited , but for younger people these were calculated to be worth much less than the personal pension could offer . |
| 25 | This seems to indicate that the igfet should not be of much use and , indeed , this is the case at low frequencies of operation . |
| 26 | Modern penitentials wo n't be of much use to future historians of the twentieth century , but eleventh-century penitentials might be , rich as they are in the prejudices of our enlightened age — particularly the inferior status of women . |
| 27 | The Governor , Sir David Wilson , has argued for a general ‘ right of entry ’ to Britain — though such a ‘ right ’ could not be of much value if it were not ordinarily convertible into full citizenship . |
| 28 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 29 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 30 | In opposition to centrally imposed ‘ local economic strategies ’ , these initiatives of the left explicitly recognize that what is appropriate in one place , may not be of much use in another . |