Example sentences of "[is] [adv] much [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Father God , We pray for those who are sick or sad , especially at this holiday period when there is so much stress on celebration and jubilation .
2 According to Gatfield , ‘ there is so much competition for air play between a host of pop bands , new ones need to have something special and different to stand out ’ .
3 For young women more than any other group there is so much scope for expression through the way they dress and look , so many more opportunities to have fun , play around with the rules , and make some of their own .
4 During the final campaign , voters hardly need such contrived devices as PEBs to find out about the issues and personalities in party debate ‘ but during the mid-term there is so much concentration on government actions and personalities that PPBs play a much more significant role in publicizing opposition policies and personalities .
5 In fact , there 's so much bonding on stage that it would make the average punter slightly sick .
6 erm It may be that in certain places there 's so much pressure on land from the people that there 's not a lot they can do .
7 erm there are a lot of social needs that remain unmet , and meeting those needs would generate more employment , but in many areas of the economy I do n't think there 's so much need for work as there has been in the past , especially as we 're applying new technologies that increase productivity dramatically .
8 As they know the prescribing GP or practice , the pricing office can also check how much individual GPs or practices are spending — important now so there 's so much attention on doctor 's spending .
9 There is not much sign of peasant migrants escaping seigneurial control altogether .
10 So , ontologically speaking , there is not much enlightenment to be-gained by pursuing this road either .
11 It 's not much protection from wind at this slower speed , but you can unnerve the man in front of you , wait for a moment of weakness and spring past .
12 erm There 's not much opportunity for job advancement , there are fewer opportunities to rise up the scale and become Readers or Professors and so on .
13 Though there 's not much room for manoeuvre , every little helps .
14 Oh well er , quality is more important than quantity , but obviously if the quantity is very tiny , i it is there 's not much room for quality .
15 THERE is always much excitement in steam operations on the main line but we should not forget the amount of effort taking place on the preserved lines especially as now the Santa Season is in full swing .
16 As Gordon Pettitt admits , there is still much scope for improvement .
17 Undoubtedly , there is still much room for improvement and , therefore , the protocols detailed below should be seen more as prototypes rather than definitive conditions .
18 So , despite much that is progressive and encouraging in psychiatric hospital provision , there is still much room for improvement .
19 Although the deadline was the end of last year , many companies still have n't done so , so there is still much potential for growth , especially as these countries have far less foreign debt than any of their Eastern European neighbours .
20 But there 's still much scope for innovation on the dry ( or , rather , wet ) goods side , and in this respect , Ray has been very busy .
21 There is clearly much room for improvement in a number of management areas , such as the co-ordination of intelligence within prisons and the co-ordination of response .
22 Further , and although this will not be our major preoccupation , " finding out " new theories , new perspectives and new approaches , looking to see how well they work and what problems they can deal with , is as much part of research as " finding out " new facts .
23 The first point to recognise is that there is as much debate within Marxism as there is between Marxists and non-Marxists as to the exact meaning and location of power .
24 There is n't much scope for skill here . ’
25 Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be .
26 And unlike Hong Kong , the Philippines is ill prepared for floods , high winds and landslips , and there is invariably much loss of life , generally ignored by the rest of the uninterested world .
27 Whereas what we 're talking about in the structure plan is how much housing in total , of which affordable housing will form a greater or lesser part .
28 There is too much evidence of goal conflict for this to be acceptable .
29 A mother always knows best where her children are concerned and there is too much interference at state level regarding bringing up children .
30 There is too much emphasis on personality in modern-day profit management .
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