Example sentences of "much [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A delicately graceful turtle dove fanned its tail and purred its soporific summer song — ‘ Rrroorrrrr , rrroorrrrrr ’ — from the top of an oak tree ; a much persecuted bird , it had run the gauntlet of continental guns and arrived safely . |
| 2 | Much repeat business is coming from satisfied contract customers . |
| 3 | The retail part of the business contains loyal customers with much repeat business . |
| 4 | De Glanville though spending some time here at Halling , was a much travelled man , rather I should say kept continuously on the run for these were most troubled times and towards the latter part of his life an interdict was placed on the country and it is recorded he was buried without a service . |
| 5 | This much travelled man , with all of his promise was at best , a controversial figure , and at worst a family black sheep . |
| 6 | Under ‘ Thursday ’ , he read of only two engagements : his treat , that is , the lunch he was giving at English 's Oyster House at one o'clock for six of his local party , much travelled Salopians upon whose goodwill , patience and forbearance he had long relied ; and ( here his heart fell ) the National Society of Agents ' dinner at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 7 | However , the much travelled five-year-old showed a lot her old sparkle when running Market Booster to a length at the Curragh at the end of June and is reported well fancied to do the double today . |
| 8 | Thus and more wrote the late much travelled T W Perkins in ‘ The Railway Magazine ’ about the Bishop 's Castle Railway after its closure on 25 April 1935 . |
| 9 | In November I made a much delayed return to the Swanage area after a ten year absence . |
| 10 | Irish League secretary Harry Wallace today announced that the much delayed Ulster Cup finals will be staged on September 22 . |
| 11 | The following month a much delayed fishing agreement was signed with the Soviet Union which gave Soviet vessels access to PNG 's 200-mile economic zone in return for a range of benefits including joint ventures in fish processing and the training of Papua New Guineans in the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis . |
| 13 | Japan 's car makers and machine makers are among the best in the world — hence the country 's much resented $10 billion-a-month trade surplus . |
| 14 | Other major buildings have been identified in the Northgate area , where much painted plaster and fragments of quarter-round mouldings have been recovered . |
| 15 | These were creatures above fashion or so they liked to think — their look characterized by exquisite dullness and a certain cock-eyed practicality , epitomized by the much favoured Barbour jacket . |
| 16 | It very much involves participation and therefore the appeal for the broader level in terms of the public is less important for those groups that actually participate . |
| 17 | It may look to some extent like the original , it may even retain traces of the original , but the many pieces that make the whole were added at different times and have been the subject of change and much repair work . |
| 18 | Ian Brotherton sees the much mooted conflict between conservation and agriculture as more imaginary than real |
| 19 | Doing that seems to imply that the much mooted conflict between conservation and agriculture is more imaginary than real . |
| 20 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 21 | I mean are we still trading as much agricultural goods , or as much manufacturing goods as we |
| 22 | This , more developed , scheme outlined the much criticized recommendation of setting up an inner Cabinet of five which would carry out the needed programme of economic reform . |
| 23 | The Council of the society rewarded him with the much coveted Copley medal for his work on airs and soda water . |
| 24 | The system will allow as much devolved responsibility as is compatible with the maintenance of consistent standards across centres and over time . |
| 25 | AFTER WITNESSING Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers live , my much revered Carly Simon , Loudon Wainwright , Jefferson Airplane , Buffy Sainte Marie , N.Y . |
| 26 | Philip Miller much respected Hugh Percy ( 1715–1786 ) the second Earl , and later first Duke , of Northumberland , to whom he dedicated the sixth , seventh and eighth editions of the Dictionary , referring to many improvements to his estates and particularly to his plantations in ‘ a Country almost destitute of Timber ’ . |
| 27 | Sheviock was then a typical Cornish church-town , isolated from the newer and busier settlement of Crafthole , which held a regular fair and was described as ‘ … a poor village but a much frequented thoroughfare ’ . |
| 28 | If there is any one awareness common to the great modern writers , it is that language will not do our bidding , that good or bad intentions do not so much pave roads , as poke up odd coloured weeds through the roadway . |
| 29 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 30 | From there he moved on to Edinburgh , and finally shut himself away in his much embellished palace of Falkland to die . |