Example sentences of "is much [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , as I have already remarked , there is much that is wrong with their approach . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there is much that is not understood about the history of the birds between Archaeopteryx ( see p. 101 ) and the good assemblages of fossil birds undoubtedly related to living species in the Eocene and Miocene . |
| 3 | Although the courtyard has an undoubted 18C feel to it , there is much that is modern , by Jože Plečnik . |
| 4 | There is much that is attractive about a French-style rationalization . |
| 5 | Fortunately , there is much that can be done at home to reduce the level of chemical exposure — for the majority of patients , these simple measures will be enough to alleviate the symptoms considerably . |
| 6 | There is much that can be said about the advantages of such a strategy , which is flexible and which can penetrate secular buildings with the salt of the gospel touching the lives of many who otherwise have no contact with the church . |
| 7 | They believe that in this passage , as with the rest of the chapter , there is much that is symbolism , used by Matthew to say what the birth of Jesus means to him . |
| 8 | They taught me what I still believe ( and no amount of misogyny or gynophobia or general bad behaviour on either side can shift me ) that though there is much that is different for lesbians and gay men , there is also much that is common . |
| 9 | However , there is much that is useful and original in them . |
| 10 | That is certainly a witness to the fact that there is much that is very fine in it , and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise . |
| 11 | There is much that is illuminating in Stevenson 's treatment of persuasive definitions , especially if we disentangle the essential points from the unsatisfactory notion of emotive meaning . |
| 12 | But there is much that can be usefully said about the way in which all governmental activities are controlled by law , particularly when considering the relationships between different branches of government . |
| 13 | Although there is much that is positive and encouraging , a sad picture emerges of a dwindling supply of musicians , a reduced use of other than congregational music , a considerable lowering of standards , and a lack of both resources and expectations . |
| 14 | There is much that unites our dedication to reducing avoidable disadvantage , distress , and handicap . |
| 15 | Of course there is much that is true , alongside much that is not . |
| 16 | One must , of course , be infinitely grateful for a source as detailed and informative as Ata'i ; but one must also be careful not to allow simply the approach to the writing of biographies to mislead as well as inform , and not to ignore , in the flood of welcome facts , the more personal , anecdotal material which is given or to be unaware that there is much that is not given , much that is unexplained and perhaps by now unexplainable . |
| 17 | Both in a general way and on the specific matter of Molla Fenari 's death there is much that is questionable in Husameddin 's account . |
| 18 | It should be clear from this article that a more multicultural approach would improve the quality of mathematics education , and that there is much that can be done to ensure that the mathematics we teach prepares children for our multicultural society . |
| 19 | And there is much that local authorities can do to advise informal workers of their rights , tax and social security matters and to explain how to become legal . |
| 20 | There is much that is unsatisfactory in the current convention for allocating women to a social class , and this project , which uses the Longitudinal Study , a 1% sample of the census , aims to develop a social classification scheme for women in and out of paid work and based on full or part time paid work and domestic responsibilities . |
| 21 | She affiliated herself more with the opposing camp of Impressionism — when a female caller at her studio who hoped to have a portrait done told Walker that she was regarded as having a ‘ Burne-Jones-face ’ Walker replied , ‘ what a damn sickly sort of face to have ! ’ 20 However , despite this aversion and the fact that her own women do not resemble the Pre-Raphaelite type , in her attitude towards her women there is much that is similar . |
| 22 | There is much that is important about all this . |
| 23 | In the first place there is much that is right about the confessionalist stance . |
| 24 | Barbara Everett 's subtle and disconcerting essay proceeds to say that ‘ Difficulties with girls is much more like The Waste Land than Kenner leaves room for guessing it is ’ , in the book by him which she is examining . |
| 25 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 26 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 27 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 28 | Conversely , on the materialist model it is much more homophobia itself , as an aspect of the construction of homosexuality and independently of the question of the actual subjective repression of desire , which helps secure a coerced identity and social organization ; homophobia enforces the heterosexual norm by policing its boundaries : ‘ Homophobia is only incidentally directed against homosexuals — its more common use is against the 49% of the population which is male … |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher still tells interviewers and staff that ‘ There is much more to do ’ . |
| 30 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |