Example sentences of "[vb -s] much [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The solo madrigals lean now toward declamatory monody , now toward coloratura song , often fusing both as in ‘ Amarilli ’ , and in his preface Caccini has much to say about the types of graces — trilli and gruppi-which can heighten expressiveness .
2 We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful .
3 So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ .
4 Although , as we shall see , citizenship has much to do with the individual rights of citizens , the concept lacks the implication of liberal individualism often associated with ‘ human rights ’ and found objectionable by many on the political left .
5 The secret of whetting an audience 's appetite for music of the long-distant past has much to do with the way in which it is presented .
6 It is clear that reading is a dynamic activity in which the reader is actively involved — that it has much to do with the reader 's thought processes .
7 What we are now has much to do with the way we have steered round or even collided with the obstacles of our lives .
8 That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet .
9 This is partly because of the increasing importance of employment in the service sector , much of it geared to regional and local markets and client groups , but it also has much to do with the particular circumstances of the 1980s .
10 If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ?
11 AMNESTY International has much to do in the '90s to maintain its role as the world 's leading human rights movement , Peter Benenson , the organisation 's founder , told the annual Amnesty International Youth Conference last year .
12 Hill , married with two sons , will start his racing career with Williams in the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in 12 weeks time — and admits he has much to learn from the ‘ old professor ’ Prost .
13 Britain has much to learn from the Australian experience .
14 His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide .
15 Each has much to offer to the other and there is no question of one tradition being right and the other wrong .
16 In short , the value of history as a school subject must be constantly and publicly argued because : ( 1 ) history may lose out in any modification to the National Curriculum ; ( 2 ) in the implementation of the existing national curriculum it may be marginalised in the scramble for resources and timetable space ; ( 3 ) a rigorous projection of the value of the subject is important to the well-being of the school in the face of competition from other schools and possible closure ; ( 4 ) students have a choice at Key Stage 4 and in the sixth form and it is essential for the integrity of the subject that single-subject history should have a good representation at both levels ; ( 5 ) above all history has much to offer to the student of the 1990s .
17 While history has much to contribute to the employability of young people it also has , without establishing a rigid dichotomy , much to contribute to personal and social education .
18 Certainly , on the evidence to date , the savings achieved by efficiency scrutinies , the enhanced departmental knowledge available to ministers through information systems , and the increased resource consciousness among civil servants brought about by the FMI , would suggest that the public sector has much to gain by the introduction of managerial techniques originated in the private sector .
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