Example sentences of "[prep] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 2 | Almost half of the serviceable BR-owned wagon fleet in 1989 comprised ‘ merry-go-round ’ coal hoppers , with the remainder consisting largely of steel carriers , some vans and opens for general merchandise traffic , and — rather surprisingly and after much argument with the industry — the fleet of china clay carriers built to replace the venerable ‘ clay hoods ’ in 1988 . |
| 3 | After much hesitation he had at last begun work on an autobiography which , sadly , remains unfinished . |
| 4 | In February 1926 the religious groups in the university agreed , after much difficulty , upon the common organization of a mission to the university . |
| 5 | After much negotiation , the association was obliged to pay a purchase price of £210,000 for Granby House at the end of 1983 . |
| 6 | Bulls have been observed to mate with as many as 20 females , after much love play , over one and half hours . |
| 7 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 8 | After much lobbying , it has ended up as a liberal edict . |
| 9 | By the way also , I have begun the Tristran & Isould story , today , after much hesitation , with a snatch of talk between Kheydius & Palomides . |
| 10 | After much excitement in the early 1980s , interest in biomass fuels dropped . |
| 11 | The mathematician Aristarchus suggested that the problem could be simplified if all the planets , including Earth , were to orbit the Sun but , after much controversy , his argument was lost . |
| 12 | After much thought , she had concluded that Western tastes meant toasted sandwiches , so every meal now consisted of toasted sandwiches . |
| 13 | After much agrarian unrest , especially in the 1880s , some degree of land reform was gradually achieved . |
| 14 | He was only able to overcome doubts about the genuineness of his own faith after much inner struggle . |
| 15 | After much bitter debate , in March 1986 Britain quietly announced that it would be , reviewing ’ policy following scientific advances made in the SWAP programme . |
| 16 | After much research of possible sites Gehlen suggested that a tunnel could be driven into the Russian sector from the suburb of Rudow in the American sector . |
| 17 | Indeed this is a fresh act of God 's grace , which many a one only receives after much labour . |
| 18 | The central nucleus of all these penicillins was the same , but the exact structure was established only after much controversy . |
| 19 | It was , in fact , a different salt of the same base as the original Bayer Resochin , and after much comparison with other related compounds it became established and was recognized formally in February 1946 under the name chloroquine . |
| 20 | After much transatlantic exchange of information , the synthesis and study of more than 300 compounds , and collaboration with physicians in many parts of Africa and Asia , the drug christened ‘ Daraprim ’ and later known as pyrimethamine emerged in 1952 as an antimalarial of considerable importance . |
| 21 | After much public correspondence , and a re-check of the data by the study 's authors , the original ‘ definitive ’ interpretation of the results were withdrawn , again publicly , in a letter to the Lancet medical journal . |
| 22 | After much legal deliberation , the lord president of the Council of the North , the earl of Strafford , pronounced that Vermuyden must bear the cost of a major new channel , still called ‘ Dutch River ’ , to rectify the situation . |
| 23 | At the altar , Father Paddy had solemnly completed the giving out of communion , and after much prayer and ceremony in the cleaning of the chalice and paten at the altar , the ordinary service of the Mass was resumed with the prayers after Communion and the Conclusion . |
| 24 | Some compensation was eventually paid to the villagers by the Board of Trade , after much prevarication and talk of ‘ natural causes ’ ; the fact was the Board had permitted the dredging operation without foreseeing the consequences . |
| 25 | But on 5 January , ‘ after much & very painful hesitation ’ , he sent the money back , expressing at the same time ‘ no ordinary feelings of esteem and affection ’ for his benefactors . |
| 26 | After much discussion , the following transformation was agreed : |
| 27 | After much experiment we still have no satisfactory resolution of our local government problem . |
| 28 | So hot sun , after much rain ( not an uncommon feature of the Lakes , he assures us ) when unaccompanied by wind produces ‘ a medium which is the cause of that wonderful diversity of appearances especially in a mountainous country . ’ |
| 29 | After much research , it was found in London , in the possession of a descendant of the Ochiltree crier . |
| 30 | He was ordained in 1861 , and finally in 1870 , after much fund raising , the foundation stone of St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf and Dumb was laid by H.R.H. |