Example sentences of "[v-ing] much [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | simply just not noticing much on the screen really . |
| 4 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |
| 5 | It is the primary institution for organizing and employing much of our capital and labour resources and the primary supplier of goods and services in our community . |
| 6 | This could cost up to £1 billion , defeating much of the purpose of the VAT increase as a revenue-earning measure . |
| 7 | He employed the conventional Velikovskian technique of selecting evidence while at the same time adopting much of the traditional ( that is , false ) Velikovskian lore . |
| 8 | Mr Wolski stood by the cage not understanding much of this . |
| 9 | England was already an old country by late Saxon times , and the new evidence suggests a relatively large population utilising much of the landscape to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 10 | The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas . |
| 11 | Thieves would be unlikely to remove the communications chips because it would be time-consuming and mean disassembling much of the car . |
| 12 | The advance to the west to find and destroy Caratacus meant stripping much of the eastern part of the Province of its garrisons . |
| 13 | Paul Piccone has argued that the relative success of monopoly capital in the 1930s and 1940s in incorporating much of social and cultural life within its own orbit led Adorno |
| 14 | The aircraft continued in a wide arc , during which time the wings and the engine were torn off , apparently absorbing much of the energy . |
| 15 | Its hair-thin filaments permeate the manure , absorbing much of it , changing the nature of the residue , occasionally producing tiny reproductive organs like white pin-heads . |
| 16 | A solicitor who can not be named for legal reasons faces trial in the summer accused of laundering much of the drug money . |
| 17 | He is alive and well , devoting much of his time to encouraging and supporting other AIDS sufferers in their quest for life . |
| 18 | When Ralph Salperton sold the business his father and his grandfather had built up , he had announced his intention of devoting much of his newly won leisure to compiling the family history . |
| 19 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
| 20 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 21 | The big research foundations such as the Rowntree or Carnegie Trusts are of vital importance in financing much of the work carried out by universities or other organizations . |
| 22 | US F-111 aircraft using laser-guided " smart " bombs succeeded in stemming much of the flow on Jan. 26-27 by knocking out two manifolds — oil pressure controls — at the Mina al-Ahmadi oil storage facility which fed the Sea Island terminal . |
| 23 | Despite government and party documents since the early 1980s accepting much of Komarek 's argument , nothing has changed in the structure of the economy . |
| 24 | Thirteen persons ( 21 per cent ) showed some signs of ethical and moral sense , though accepting much of the Nazi claim that the Jews had caused Germany harm . |
| 25 | THE Scottish Nationalists ( Diary , Monday ) are attributing much of their surge in popularity to the backing of actor Sean Connery . |
| 26 | An intact tomb has yielded golden gloves , crowns and other treasures , redating much of the world 's ‘ Inca ’ and ‘ Chimó ’ gold and treasures |
| 27 | ‘ Been seeing much of McCloy lately , Charlie ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 29 | ‘ You been seeing much of him recently ? ’ |
| 30 | Before becoming a coastguard officer , Mr Baker spent six years seeing much of the world as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy . |