Example sentences of "much [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results are sought not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH three English Commonwealth Games representatives , Peter Elliott , Derek Redmond and Phil Brown , have withdrawn , Linford Christie 's presence should do much to enliven the Scottish Indoor Championship in the Kelvin Hall , Glasgow , today and tomorrow . |
| 3 | I do not think this reversal did much to uphold the seriousness or credibility of the sporting authorities ; it did , however , solve certain in-house problems and — until Monza — lower the temperature in the great debate about Ferrari ‘ influence ’ . |
| 4 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 5 | On these occasions , the clinical teacher can do much to support the student and advise her about the organisation of priorities in care . |
| 6 | Indeed , one of the most disgraceful things that we have seen in the Chamber this week was the Maastricht agreement which , in terms of social policy , means that the opportunity to do so much to support the family , children and working mothers has been lost . |
| 7 | R. W. Dale 's son became a fellow of Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and one survey of leading Victorians noted , ‘ As the elder Dale did much to spiritualize the business men of the Midlands , the younger carries on his father 's work in traditionally the most [ sic ] liberal of our two national seats of learning ’ . |
| 8 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 9 | If these are collected before they sink and are placed in a jar of water in a cool airy place , they will start into growth much sooner , and , by providing much needed surface shade , can do much to combat the algal growth that is invariably experienced in early spring . |
| 10 | Michael Ledeen , an academic and consultant who did much to promote the Iran venture , took heart from the fact that when an arms shipment went disastrously wrong , in November 1985 , the Iranians still gave the crew caviar on their flight out of Iran . |
| 11 | I also reminded her of her predictions concerning Lord Lovat and herself , and that I hoped very much to see the end of the campaign in Normandy and looked forward to meeting her again in the Highlands . |
| 12 | The Steam Tank has a high leadership value because its thick armoured plating does much to bolster the courage of the crew inside ! |
| 13 | So it 's very much praising the landscape of the country . |
| 14 | ‘ It would not need to improve much to enable the meeting to go ahead , ’ he said . |
| 15 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 16 | A truce in the following year did much to restore the old trade , and the Treaty of Picquigny of 1475 eased many of the restrictions which had been imposed on it ( 64 , Ch.7 ; 93 ; 94 , pp.212–13 ) . |
| 17 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the efforts of conservative historians , although they have done much to restore the image of the Church of England after 1830 , have done little to qualify the depiction of the period from the early eighteenth century to that date as a " phase of prolonged , rapid , and disastrous decline " . |
| 19 | The strict code of conduct does much to cultivate the discipline that is so much part and parcel of karate-do ( ‘ way of karate ’ ) . |
| 20 | Sitting in the link box behind the tractor , and very much enjoying the experience , were our four Frenchmen ! |
| 21 | As The Economist put it : ‘ Mrs Thatcher has much to thank the capital for ’ . |
| 22 | The world has much to thank the Chinese ancients for , do n't you agree ? " |
| 23 | They had already invented The Class System ( we have much to thank the Romans for ) . |
| 24 | How much I owe to his continuing good health , that he should feel able and eager , at eighty-two years of age , to entertain poets and undergraduates and mathematical professors and political thinkers so early in the day , and to tell the anecdote of the Bust with his habitual fervour without too much delaying the advent of buttered toast . |
| 25 | Postwar migration policy , for example , brought large numbers of Greeks and Italians to Australia and their presence has done much to encourage the widespread adoption of putatively low risk Mediterranean diets . |
| 26 | Is not my hon. Friend the Member for York ( Mr. Gregory ) , who has done so much to encourage the arts in York , absolutely right ? |
| 27 | However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years . |
| 28 | Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 . |
| 29 | Internally , GE has already done much to dismantle the bureaucratic command-and-control systems that beset so many of America 's big businesses . |
| 30 | They are used principally in forecasting , where the aim is not so much understanding the nature of the effects but predicting the net change that will occur in Y if X goes up a unit . |