Example sentences of "much to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the shit proliferates , he wrote , and there is still much to be done . |
| 2 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 3 | If Zapp believes that writing about literature has nothing to do with liking it , Swallow likes it all too much to be able to write about it : |
| 4 | First , the work is dramaturgically polite ; it consults its audience too much to be taken seriously as drop-out theatre . |
| 5 | Admittedly , some facilities leave much to be desired . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there was much to be commended in the way Britain relinquished the reins of empire . |
| 7 | Either nature does not contain it or nature contains too much to be conceived any longer as natural . |
| 8 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 9 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 10 | In the meantime there is much to be achieved before they too will march off the parade ground as trained servicewomen . |
| 11 | But there is still so much to be done . |
| 12 | There 's still so much to be done |
| 13 | Who wants a society that reduces men to predatory thugs , when there is so much to be done ? |
| 14 | But from these men and women there is much to be learnt . |
| 15 | ‘ I wouldn't. ever want to be a princess , ’ Dot sometimes said , because she wanted so much to be one . |
| 16 | His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity . |
| 17 | There was so much to be done . |
| 18 | If I had time I would like to make a collection of the many stories there are about great conductors because I think there is much to be learnt from them . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a great deal to take in in what you have said , too much to be done all in a moment . |
| 20 | It was they who were the defenders , not the aggressors , the men pushed by fear of extermination into acts which they knew came dangerously close to that disturbance of the social order which was almost as much to be feared . |
| 21 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 22 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 23 | ‘ That the campaign of the Tory faction so far has left much to be desired is undeniable . |
| 24 | Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours . |
| 25 | Claude Arkell and his forefathers have much to be thanked for . |
| 26 | Its condition , therefore , left much to be desired , though according to contemporaries , the state of the Elysée was hardly better : |
| 27 | There was n't much to be proud of in a mixed bunch of movies which were largely exploitation of current trends , regardless of how Corman tried to disguise them with socio-explanations . |
| 28 | There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional . |
| 29 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 30 | He wanted so much to be one of us , you see . |