Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst these notes repeat much of the material covered in the " Statements and Functions " section , additional information has been added and they are presented in a more readable order . |
| 2 | The accompanying notes make much of Strauss 's close relationship with the VPO , as if to dish Karajan 's Berliners , whose GRAMOPHONE Award-winning DG coupling of Tod and Metamorphosen is an obvious choice in this repertoire . |
| 3 | What is more , in the hierarchical algorithm , early rules gain much more credit . |
| 4 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |
| 6 | The looms were used in local cottages , and warehouses occupied much of this site . |
| 7 | Planning and plans occupy much of a manager 's time at any level in the company , with important consequences . |
| 8 | The research by Thompson ( 1986 ) on decision making within district health authorities found much evidence of bargaining , not just between the different coalitions of politicians , administrators and the medical profession but also within these coalitions . |
| 9 | Because insufficient allowances were allocated , the union argues , the local education authorities used much of the money that should have been paid in incentive allowances to classroom teachers to pay the senior staff their incentive entitlements . |
| 10 | But Knowles 's criticisms of Labov 's methods lose much of their cogency if we remember that Labov was not attempting to provide an accurate , detailed and variation-sensitive description of an urban dialect . |
| 11 | ( In this respect , Village differs markedly from some other Scottish communities included in this study , where informants made much more mention of the possible demographic and economic effects of school closure . ) |
| 12 | Mosses and lichens provide much of the patchy ground cover , forming mats rather than carpets with bare ground between . |
| 13 | As we saw in Chapter 1 , it was believed in the early 1980s that much primary classroom practice in Leeds was outdated , uninspiring or downright bad ; that heads bore much of the responsibility for this state of affairs ; and , therefore , that the same heads could not be expected to put matters right . |
| 14 | I can see why the authors place much of the responsibility for reducing organisational defensive routines on the CEO . |
| 15 | By vulgar , racial accounting , she is primarily white and ‘ one quarter ’ black , and neither her cherubic , pink cheeks or pouty lips suggest much of her mother 's African ethnicity . |
| 16 | Even so , these sessions reveal much of the formula that would make the MJQ so successful in later years , with the loose basis of a style that would later ( perhaps unfairly ) become known as ‘ chamber jazz ’ . |
| 17 | Few of the many other non-prize-winning classical entries received much attention . |
| 18 | As Whyte ( 1 943 , p. 300 ) noted in his classic study of Chicago street gangs , acceptance by informants depends much more on the development of personal relationships than on any explanation concerning the reasons for conducting the research . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that any river improved in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries bears much relationship to its earlier regime . |
| 20 | Because we 'd none of us done much , we 'd been too busy lying in the sun ( I mean too lazy ) and looking at great pictures to do much drawing or anything . |
| 21 | Primary schools devote much of their time to discussion . |
| 22 | With such a small amount of cash recovered the chances of any of his former clients getting much of their money back is slim . |
| 23 | It was the first time professional ballet was seen in South Africa , and the performances caused much excitement . |
| 24 | The disinherited fell out over the distribution of some of the fruits of their victory : Beaumont was captured at the siege of Dunlarg Castle and had to raise loans , including one from Edward III , to pay his ransom , while in September 1334 David II 's supporters reoccupied much of the land ceded to Edward III , forcing the English administration to retreat to Berwick . |
| 25 | She married Harry ‘ because of his laugh and she had thought that the expression in his blue eyes meant much more than it did ’ she did n't dwell on the subject of her life too much . |
| 26 | Yet people with more or less stable impairments , struggling to make their way as oppressed citizens , do not usually appear in professional eyes to have much in common with the majority of bewildered , vulnerable people who seek medical help . |
| 27 | Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire . |
| 28 | But the 120 units offer much more — a guide to the way in which language is used in communication . |
| 29 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |
| 30 | Now animals share much of this pre-linguistic heritage with us , in varying degrees depending upon whether we are speaking of gibbons or goldfish , but ( pace Washoe ) stop short of speaking and the consequent metamorphosis of the prototypes that goes with it . |