Example sentences of "much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , Mrs Pettifer began to interject but the small gentleman silenced her with a flap of the wrist which was altogether not very gentlemanly and proved too much for the great lady detective who made a more purposeful interjection of her own . |
| 2 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 3 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 4 | Not so much for the platform speakers , who have arrived , but for some of the floor speakers , who have n't and would like to . |
| 5 | It says much for the sang-froid of the practised musician that , despite the intrusion of a bomb hoax , both Dame Joan and the orchestra resumed the published programme as if no interruption had occurred . |
| 6 | Addressing the husband , I said , ‘ Thank your wife very much for the bottle of wine . |
| 7 | However , a V8 would be too much for the Rover 800 's front-drive chassis — news ed |
| 8 | Besides , I 've done too much for the big pots . |
| 9 | She did much for the Red Cross , Girl Guides and the Royal Society for the Blind , and was a magistrate for many years . |
| 10 | That does not say much for the top chasers of the day , which are very thin on the ground . |
| 11 | There was much for the eye , especially a lovely sinking ship effect followed by a charming underwater ballet . |
| 12 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment may have helped the Socialists somewhat but can not have done much for the Communists . |
| 13 | Nor is the sale of BR 's divisions likely to raise much for the Treasury . |
| 14 | The work of the court was too much for the judges ; and this cause of delay was aggravated by the dilatory character of the procedure , and by the time which some of the Chancellors took to consider their decisions . |
| 15 | ‘ It does n't say much for the quality , does it ? ’ |
| 16 | It was too much for the rigid party mind . |
| 17 | It was this western part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler was so keen to get his hands on ; not so much for the Pilsener lagers , but for the Skoda machine plants and the iron and coal resources of Western Bohemia . |
| 18 | Developing the new RB211 aero engine had proved too much for the world-famous engineering group 's financial resources . |
| 19 | With an average age of 60 , customers choose his trips as much for the company of like-minded people as for the presence of an expert lecturer . |
| 20 | The physical demands were enormous and it says much for the exceptional fitness of both crews that neither wilted . |
| 21 | Their reward was an encounter against New Zealand , but the All Blacks ' strength and experience proved too much for the Koreans as they went down 14–0 . |
| 22 | Marshall 's speed in retrieving , his staying power and , not least , his unorthodox two-handed style , proved too much for the world No 18 from Australia , Anthony Hill . |
| 23 | Within months the party began to self-destruct as the pace of reforms became too much for the Left , and for Mr Lange , to stomach . |
| 24 | This was too much for the professor and Doisneau was ordered by a French court to destroy the original negative . |
| 25 | ‘ This tournament would mean so much for the entire country , in terms of tourism , resultant job creation , and even other industry , ’ he said . |
| 26 | This does not matter too much for the younger pupils , since they draw readily and without inhibition , but it does become an issue with slightly older children . |
| 27 | An organisation capable of attracting international attention , to which people would come as much for the opportunity of discussion with other visitors , as for the opportunity of seeing the Highland problem at first hand . |
| 28 | In other words as long as the dose is in liquid form , and can be regulated as to the optimum size and repetition , then no matter how many succussions are used to prepare the original remedy it will not be too much for the patient . |
| 29 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 30 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandmother lived next door remembers how the old lady ‘ used to pass one or two little bits and pieces over to us , but she used to say to mother , ‘ I ca n't do much for the grandchildren because we have no pension at the end . ’ |