Example sentences of "[pron] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a world of fast transport and high mobility , working for an international company has given me much opportunity to travel , particularly in europe , the United States and the Far East . |
| 2 | You did n't really give me much chance — ’ |
| 3 | not giving me much chance to get done what I was gon na do though |
| 4 | " If you put it like that , you do n't leave me much choice . " |
| 5 | You should know , at least , that Punch has given me much laughter . |
| 6 | ‘ lean did n't give me much warning . |
| 7 | This is , as I say , a matter which has given me much concern . |
| 8 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 9 | they cost me much labour to raise from seed . ’ |
| 10 | A very small pocket penknife ( with hoof-pick and corkscrew ) had n't been lending me much courage . |
| 11 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 12 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 13 | This railway has given me much pleasure . |
| 14 | I do n't think she finds me much use . |
| 15 | " Well , that did n't get me much forrader , but it was something . |
| 16 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 17 | 1956 : after years of writing about nothing much happening 'cos everything is crap THE BEAST IS BORN … |
| 18 | The air heavy with sweat , greasepaint and burning dust , a lot of clutter and small talk , some haste , occasional flurries of panic , and long stretches of nothing much happening while the empty passageways echoed with relayed sound from the house pickup . |
| 19 | One problem for publishers is the ease with which much software can be copied and in some cases they are reluctant to send out a whole package . |
| 20 | Its main action appears to be not one of erosion , but merely one of transport : it is the mechanism by which much debris is thought to be moved from the foot of the uplands across the gentle slopes that often border them in deserts . |
| 21 | I shall begin with household composition , the issue around which much work on the history of the family has been centred . |
| 22 | While occupancy of the traditional wife/mother/housewife constellation of roles — the manner in which much sociology represents women — is correlated with certain types of powerlessness , it also has its own avenues of influence . |
| 23 | In local government elections , to which much importance was attached , the Labour Party made little advance after the victories of 1934 , actually losing seats in 1936 . |
| 24 | Later , in a passage to which much argument was directed in this appeal , Lord Bridge said , at pp. 322–323 : |
| 25 | It was a question on which much argument and money could be spent . |
| 26 | An area in which much research on the effects of emotional stress or arousal on memory has been conducted is that of eyewitness testimony . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , there was the question of his presents , to which much time and many column inches were devoted . |
| 28 | In this section we present ( essentially ) two number-theoretic results of which much use is made in many areas of mathematics . |
| 29 | Do n't they set you much work ? |
| 30 | yes , yeah have you much bread in the freezer Paula ? |