Example sentences of "[vb pp] much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have given much to meet him at Elsfield during one of his fleeting visits : indeed there was no one I would have been more interested to meet . |
| 2 | He felt , somehow , as though he was deserting ; and he had grown much to admire the older man . |
| 3 | ‘ By all accounts he did very well indeed , ’ said a delighted Russ who gave Stephen his first taste of Bass NWC football last season and has seen much to justify his brave decision . |
| 4 | The tobacco industry has done much to sidestep the Secretary of State 's restrictions by moving more into other marketing areas , such as sampling , road shows , travel films , clothing , and sponsorship — from Glyndebourne to rock , from angling to snooker . |
| 5 | It also marked the breaking of a link with the past through the death of Miss Helen Stocks who had done much to promote and sustain the work of the District and the WEA in its early years in Northamptonshire . |
| 6 | The Youth Training Scheme has done much to educate employers about the importance of training a workforce to meet the challenge of the 21st century . |
| 7 | Centralizing revenue collection and publishing the empire 's accounts had won Reitern the respect of financial experts , but had not done much to earn him the applause of the community at large . |
| 8 | I suspect that the Secretary of State 's inability to press that policy on the industry , and the industry 's failure to adopt it voluntarily before now , has done much to heighten public awareness of the reticence of the Secretary of State and of the industry to take the issue as seriously as they might . |
| 9 | Recent initiatives such as the National Writing Project and the National Oracy Project have done much to foster such developments and to disseminate good practice . |
| 10 | Steve 's work has done much to erase the stigma of kite flying as a childish diversion . |
| 11 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 12 | These groups have no reason to feel that the white male-dominated unions have ever done much to serve their interests . |
| 13 | The film has undoubtedly done much to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap , and on a number of levels . |
| 14 | Serbia has never had any legitimate claim to it , and the assault has done much to weaken the Serbian case in the eyes of the civilised world . |
| 15 | The sale of council houses has taken place against the background of an allocation policy that has done much to lay the basis of the emergence of ghettos . |
| 16 | Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game . |
| 17 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that the FMC which , by 1980 , represented over 80 per cent of Cuban women , has done much to improve opportunities for women and , above all , to give them dignity and respect in society . |
| 19 | This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved . |
| 20 | The agrarian reform had done much to improve the efficiency of agriculture and to ameliorate living standards among the peasantry . |
| 21 | He has already done much to improve support for local action , encouraging and advising our many active volunteers . |
| 22 | ‘ The Government has done much to improve the ambulance service in recent years in striving to achieve the medical term the ‘ golden hour ’ for getting casualties to hospital . |
| 23 | Nor does codetermination appear to have done much to improve work conditions . |
| 24 | Since the Second World War , the United Nations Statistical Office has done much to stimulate a global view of economic and social problems particularly in relation to human fertility but the responsibility for gathering the required information is left with individual countries , the majority of which do not have resources of trained manpower to accomplish the task themselves . |
| 25 | It was a symptom or symbol of the 1980s and a lesson for the 1990s of collusion between Government and irresponsible elements who have done much to give the tobacco industry a bad name . |
| 26 | And attempts by several African countries , including Zimbabwe , Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa ( would you believe it ? ) to ban sales of these soaps do not seem to have done much to lessen its ' widespread use . |
| 27 | Their presence has done much to inhibit some of the wilder excesses on both sides . |
| 28 | None has done much to ease Africa 's long-term debt burden . |
| 29 | Down here it 's strictly hardcore and , as EPMD say , you can keep the crossover : local heroes Das EFX have , along with dancehall reggae , done much to take hip hop back underground . |
| 30 | Economists are nothing if not ingenious , however , and in their ingenuity they have done much to deflect attention away from searching investigation into the nature and operation of organised labour within individual firms and industries . |