Example sentences of "[verb] much [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 2 | The modern sociobiological approach to evolution contains much of major importance for this inquiry . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it contains much of value and of topical interest , and an extensive bibliography . |
| 4 | As in many foods , the fat in cheese contains much of the flavour and it is , therefore , a real breakthrough to be able to create the full flavour of a traditional blue cheese with less than half of the normal fat content . |
| 5 | The two works are therefore inseparable , since the Supplement contains much of the present-day vocabulary of English , especially the terminology of the newer sciences and technology , which is inevitably not in OED , but only yields its full meaning when read in parallel with the equivalent part of the OED . |
| 6 | De la Broquière 's book contains much of interest in relation to the appearance , personality and habits of Murad II and to his military forces , but the passage of particular interest for a study of the Muftilik occurs in his description of Murad " s entry into Edirne : " Et alerent au devant de luy [ le Grant Turc ] le grant caliphe qui est entre eulx ainsi que le pape est entre nous , et aussi toutes les notables gens de la ville qui furent en grant nombre . |
| 7 | Among the subjects he detailed were the attempts of U.S. insurance companies and the { Mediaid } system to pass much of the burden of care onto families ; the great strain placed on family and personal relationships ; hardships in adjusting to residential situations ; and medical difficulties with such things as bladder and bowel management , skin diseases , constant pain , spastic muscle movement , regulating body temperature and resistance to respiratory complications . |
| 8 | If there is ultimately too little information to determine precisely who decided to exclude much of Leapor 's best work from the first volume , it remains very likely that the exclusion was related to the subscription . |
| 9 | It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . ) |
| 10 | There was a clear acceptance of the need to plan acute hospital provision in order to equalize the distribution of hospital beds throughout the country and replace much of the existing pre-First World War hospital stock . |
| 11 | Reebok believes that it has taken a further innovative step by eliminating much of the superfluous components so that now , the tennis shoe will consist of an estimated 12 separate components . |
| 12 | In other words , the British have been compelled by financial limitations to concentrate much of their attention on co-operation , on neighbourhood resources , and on the person-to-person aspects of support work , but this is a valuable area to develop . |
| 13 | You see , and , I , I now I 've handled it a little bit better , but I could n't focus much at all this morning . |
| 14 | For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England , the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater , a comparatively poor district where , for example , people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound . |
| 15 | There 's supposed to be a white horse that goes through the square at and er it er supposed to pay this horseman or something but I do n't really ken much about it . |
| 16 | He did n't need much of an excuse . |
| 17 | Apparently you do n't need much of that green , Fiona . |
| 18 | His attack came after Mr Christopher Robson , another of Bioplan 's witnesses contradicted much of her evidence . |
| 19 | Although the new ballet had occupied much of his time and energy , other aspects of life continued . |
| 20 | The Orkney Tourist Board occupied much of the building , and faced onto the main road , and the Northern Studies Centre was in another part . |
| 21 | The mosaic occupied much of his consciousness so that he was only dimly aware — out of the corner of his eye , and mind 's eye — of Meh'Lindi , a flexible ebon statue of herself , yet still with an ivory face . |
| 22 | Their true ancestors were the Vascons , a people of northwestern Spain who spread very successfully into and over the Pyrenees and occupied much of south-western France . |
| 23 | The looms were used in local cottages , and warehouses occupied much of this site . |
| 24 | Acting President Akbarsho Iskandarov and his coalition government resigned on Nov. 10 , calling for a ceasefire as pro-communist militias laid siege to Dushanbe and occupied much of Tajikistan . |
| 25 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 26 | simply just not noticing much on the screen really . |
| 27 | Count Tolstoy provided much of the information for the pamphlet at issue , of which Mr Watts circulated 10,000 copies . |
| 28 | Count Tolstoy provided much of the information . |
| 29 | Count Tolstoy provided much of the information for the pamphlet . |
| 30 | The background information obtained was as valuable as the answers to the prepared Questionnaire and provided much of the information in the Report . |