Example sentences of "make much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionist MPs made much capital from the embarrassment of Liberals who had to vote the Bill down and from the ineffectiveness of John Burns , one of the weakest of the Liberal ministers . |
| 2 | Women 's world could therefore be seen as inferior to the higher cultural activities of men in the public domain — a fact recognized by the first century AD Jewish philosopher Philo who in his writings made much play of this gender-differentiated opposition between the public and private domains . |
| 3 | Especially since the demise of Vanguard and the simplification of the inter-unionist competition , the DUP has stressed its own reliability ( ‘ for trustworthy leadership , vote DUP ’ ) and made much play of divisions within the Official Unionists and the continued presence in the Unionist Party of some people who were tainted by O'Neillism and power-sharing . |
| 4 | The industry made much play of the fact that the flask survived virtually unscathed . |
| 5 | Only Rangers and Celtic made much money — hence the original meaning of The term ‘ The Old firm ’ — and Celtic was pledged To donate to Catholic charities . |
| 6 | It is unlikely that he made much money , but he had an activity and his shop was a meeting-place for other young men who dropped in to discuss the events of the day and to plan entertainments and visits for the evening . |
| 7 | The South-West forwards tried to play a similar mauling game , but with Teague far short of his true form they seldom made much headway and only occasionally produced clean possession for Hill . |
| 8 | The result was not always music of good quality , but many worshippers were attracted by it and folk music made much headway , particularly in those parishes which had no working church musicians to compose for their own communities and resources . |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , I did n't think I made much impression on her . |
| 10 | Nor is it clear that increasing sophistication , defined by literacy , or increasing religiosity , as brought for example to some communities by Methodism , made much difference in this respect . |
| 11 | The discussion of the gentile constitution and of the confederacy are however , intended by Marx and Engels as a preliminary to their theory of the origin of the State , and for this again they made much use of Morgan 's work . |
| 12 | The case received enormous coverage and the popular press made much use of the opportunity to reveal the titillating detail from the court interaction . |
| 13 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 14 | The Romans made much use of it also , its generic name being derived from salvere , to be well , and in the Middle Ages , there was a current Arabic saying : " Why should a man die when there is sage in his garden ? " |
| 15 | The predominantly formal gardens of this period , influenced by France and the Netherlands , made much use of statuary , as the early eighteenth-century engravings of Kip copiously show . |
| 16 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 17 | Nor does the arts/science distinction make much sense in terms of graduate employment , if it is assumed that the distinction is based on a simple non-vocational/vocational one or ‘ non-relevant/relevant ’ one . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 19 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 20 | You may be able to feel this hum when you say ‘ Many men make much money ’ , ‘ homme , farmm , hamm ’ , lingering on the ‘ hum ’ in these words . |
| 21 | make much change to the ordinary people . |
| 22 | From today and whether or not we make much progress . |
| 23 | Even the biggest speculators could not distort them , or make much profit by doing so . |
| 24 | ‘ The geese make much noise , ’ Marguerite remarked , frowning at them as she sped past . |
| 25 | And given the general increase in mobility , would even a massive increase in investment in railways make much difference to road traffic ? |
| 26 | Nor did the documentary impulse make much impact on the films of Herbert Wilcox , whose ‘ patriotic ’ pictures always had a preachy tone . |
| 27 | Nor did Egypt , which is after all a long way to the east of Cyrene ( Athens being nearer to Cyrene than is the Nile ) make much impact except in a few points of ritual . |
| 28 | I tell you what , what darling , I , I , I usually ai n't er make much fuss sometime |
| 29 | Unfortunately , these are not qualities which make much impression on a balance sheet . |
| 30 | Many analysts think the project will never make much money without its second phase ; which is why nobody at Euro Disney is keen to delay starting it . |