Example sentences of "much to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director . |
| 2 | Cameron half-turned , to speak as much to the crowd as to the table , put his head back , and spoke slowly , pausing between his sentences . |
| 3 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 4 | He regards Derrida as an ‘ artist-philosopher ’ , owing much to Nietzsche , who saw the world as a work of art . |
| 5 | MUCH TO their chagrin , the woes of Chancellor Kohl 's centre-right coalition have yet to produce a solid wave of support for the Social Democrats . |
| 6 | THE RISE in the Jaguar share price yesterday owes much to the no smoke without fire school of investment analysis . |
| 7 | She is becoming Burma 's most famous non-person , much to the anger of the military , who were hoping she would fade away as a political force . |
| 8 | That cosmopolitan mouse Mickey is a roaring success , it seems , much to the chagrin of Warburgs , one of the sponsors of the Eurodisney float . |
| 9 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 10 | Some of the Commandos could not resist the temptation and burst into the Horst Wessel song , rounding it all off with three hearty cheers , much to the amazement of the German prisoners . |
| 11 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 12 | Thus , the marked advance of women in education and in the professions in the seventies was a notable , if belated testament to social advance , even if some of this progress owed much to the belligerent assertiveness of the feminist movement as well . |
| 13 | Much to the British government 's surprise , the elections in early 1980 resulted in a massive victory for the Marxist Robert Mugabe , whose party gained 57 seats , as against 29 for Joshua Nkomo and only 3 for Bishop Muzowera . |
| 14 | On balance , the Cruise missile demonstrations embarrassed the left , and turned much to Mrs Thatcher 's advantage . |
| 15 | At the same time , this belief in British national strength owed much to short-term factors . |
| 16 | The chaplain of the college was a pleasant gentleman , his teacher of classics was a worthy pedant , and neither meant much to him . |
| 17 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 18 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 19 | Eliot 's solution of a widespread Christian community hierarchically organized , related both to the state and individual parishes and containing intellectual leaders , owes much to Benda 's notion of clercs , as well as to the anthropologists ' stress on the connection of religion with society . |
| 20 | The first , and only , film that I can remember seeing there was Sergeant York , the dialogue of which was very loudly interpreted by the more bilingual of the French-Canadians for their monoglot mates , much to the annoyance of the anglophones . |
| 21 | He managed lan Dury before Dury was famous , and City Lights provided the suit that David Bowie wore on the cover of ‘ Pin Ups ’ and which people were forever coming into Let It Rock trying to get copied , much to Malcolm 's chagrin . |
| 22 | This was the policy the British intended to pursue at Chicago , much to US chagrin . |
| 23 | By contrast , some of Marx 's and Engels 's views on slavery , views which owed much to the classical historians whom they used as their sources , still seem to hold up extremely well . |
| 24 | Back at the campsite beside the iceberg lake Ann and John have made tea ( much to Tony 's disgust , since he is mainly a coffee man ) . |
| 25 | ( These arguments owe much to Perry Anderson 's location of the tripartite enabling conditions of the Modern movement as : a decrepit academicism ; the presence of new technologies ; and ‘ the imaginative proximity of social revolution ’ . ) |
| 26 | Profile reveals that new Polo owes much to old car ; driving position good , as is rear entry with low lip ; GT engine gives 75bhp |
| 27 | could be extremely severe , but some horseplay , and the occasional illicit disc was put on the record-player , much to Herr Hocher 's annoyance . |
| 28 | There were a good number of these , the men and women solemn in their Sunday best , although the young people , and there were plenty of those , too , were surprisingly casual , wearing jeans and bright sweaters under their black leather jackets ; casual and cheerful , too , in their attitude as they entered the church , calling greetings , and making good-natured jokes , much to Omi 's disapproval . |
| 29 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 30 | I suspect that Mrs Moore 's sense of humour contributed much to the genuine streak of misanthropy in Lewis 's nature . |