Example sentences of "much [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not really severe at all , I mean , they 're very much intended for , you know , the weekend er type of people , you know , somebody that just wants to get out on a Sunday afternoon with the children . |
| 2 | It does n't have to be expensive — it does n't cost much to go for a walk , work in the garden or learn to draw . |
| 3 | There is therefore much to gain and much to lose for the profession . |
| 4 | Dot knew that she had everything she used so much to long for . |
| 5 | She stuck out her darned leg , hoping to give an impression of genteel poverty , smiled so much her face ached and , despite Sukey 's warnings , found herself talking too much to compensate for Perdita 's bored indifference . |
| 6 | I had rather hoped that the legendary West Highland dilatoriness would have prevented anything much happening for years , but instead the scheme is going ahead fast . |
| 7 | The minor claim is simply that if you it 's an empirical claim it says if you look at the fossil record , and you look in detail at the changes in the fossils , what you observe is not continuous steady change , but you see what they call stasis — that is nothing much happening for long periods of time , perhaps for millions of years , and then rather suddenly changes taking place . |
| 8 | Because we are realising what television can not admit ; that nothing much happens for long periods of time . |
| 9 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 10 | With Ali at the honouring of Schmeling was Mike Tyson , a reminder that these days there is not much hope for any White Hope . |
| 11 | With Ali at the honouring of Schmeling was Mike Tyson , a reminder that these days there is not much hope for any White Hope . |
| 12 | There is not much hope for national authorities to defend their rights before such a court , especially if the principle and aims of closer integration are accepted in the Treaty Amendments , because in the past the Court has used similar apparent commitments to force the pace of integration . |
| 13 | The OTO , founded by freemasons , has much to answer for in the last eighty years . |
| 14 | The old , and now much condemned , low-carbohydrate method of dieting had much to answer for in making social eaters fat . |
| 15 | WORKWEAR , so much to answer for . |
| 16 | The procedures whereby political decisions are made in the United States surely have much to answer for . |
| 17 | The Labour Party has much to answer for from this perspective . |
| 18 | The very last thing she wanted was to go up to Rune 's apartment and drink any more of that transmogrifying liquid that already had so much to answer for ! |
| 19 | I do n't daydream about things in my future very much because I must admit I have n't got much to daydream for — because I 'm very lucky , I 've got a lovely house , a lovely husband ; we go on lovely holidays , we lead a nice social life , I 've got lovely clothes — I ca n't really daydream and say I wish I was this , I wish I was that . |
| 20 | Both have much to play for , for Luton have again given themselves a chance of escaping the drop into the Second Division while Forest are still smarting from their Rumbelows Cup defeat by United at Wembley last Sunday . |
| 21 | BUT : there is much to play for . |
| 22 | There was still much to play for . |
| 23 | Nothing much happened for a couple of days , which was fine by me . |
| 24 | At £13,000 plus options ( like the CD ) , this is , short of the cabrio , the Escort/Orion flagship — thank heavens it has as much going for it as it does . |
| 25 | There 's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we 've put our best designers to work on our range . |
| 26 | A school enjoying high status compared with its neighbours , located in a solid middle-class area , housed in relatively new buildings and already in receipt of other resources ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) ) would be felt to have so much going for it already as to be less sympathetically considered than other schools . |
| 27 | She had so much going for her , why had she felt the urge to destroy herself ? |
| 28 | But I came to terms with all that because the house has so much going for it in other ways . |
| 29 | She says there 's so much going for it , especially for the young . |
| 30 | They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality . |