Example sentences of "much be [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Too much is made of the exhaustion of war .
2 Value : Much is made of the money tobacco companies put into sport and ( to a limited extent ) the arts .
3 Much is made of the age factor by Mr Tim Devlin , the Conservative defender of a 774 majority , for at 32 he is the youngest contender in the country 's closest three-way spilt .
4 Thus , much is made of the need to eliminate " blots " on scholarship such as grammatical slips , error in construction , " tricks " of inversion .
5 Much is made of the distinction between Nature and Culture , and the consequent equation of women with Nature and men with Culture .
6 However , too much is made of the distinction between official policies and the lower levels of an organization , and the rotten-apple argument largely misses the point .
7 Much is made of the sound quality , of which more below .
8 Often there 's no information on how much is given to the charity . ’
9 When viewed at high magnification with an optical microscope or scanning electron microscope , much is revealed about the plating technique which is simply not visible on the surface of the object .
10 The soap can cause foetal damage , anaemia and kidney failure if too much is absorbed through the skin .
11 Neither : let us say rather that what is most significant about such passages is the way so much is fantasized from the position of the woman ( including anal ecstasy and , elsewhere , Lawrence 's almost as notorious worship of the phallus ) , and in a voice which is at once blindingly heterosexist and desperately homoerotic .
12 Much is written about the slowness , uncertainty and perverseness of the planning system and there is no shortage of examples .
13 Much is explained by the growth of purchasing power and consuming propensities among the middle ranks of society .
14 Much is known about the metal artefacts produced in the British Bronze Age , but until recently very little was known of the copper sources exploited ( see Chapter 4 ) .
15 A Bank spokesman claims that " not much is known about the relationship between macroeconomic measures and environmental impact . "
16 Not much is known about the course of the Council , although there are two surviving eye-witness accounts , one of which describes all the razzmatazz of a great occasion — crowds , the pope on a dais , festivities , the day-long ceremony of the re-dedication of St Maria in Trastevere , the processions with flags , flares and lights .
17 This much is established in the play , but , unable to think of a suitable ending , Perry anticipates the events to come by aborting the drama prematurely with a radio cut written into the script .
18 That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories .
19 Having considered the structure of health care provision in Britain we next consider how much is spent on the provision of these services .
20 The question that begs an answer is how much hip dysplasia is inherited and how much is induced by the diet and lifestyle of the pup when it is young .
21 Much is demanded of the participant in carrying out the tasks , but a lot of relevant help is given .
22 State governments will continue to have their own radio stations — that much is guaranteed by the constitution — but in 1981 the FRCN was authorized to draw up plans for the setting up of its own stations in every state .
23 Perhaps too much was written on the career of Mick Mannock , whose group of medals including his VC , DSO , and two bars , MC and bar were offered for sale .
24 Much was heard by the end of the Victorian era about changes in the content of sermons .
25 Many doctors obviously hold strong views about politics and the NHS — this much was exploited by the election campaign .
26 Much was said in the heat of the moment .
27 Much was made at the time of the Prince 's engagement of the youthfulness and consequent innocence of his bride .
28 Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions .
29 Second , although much was made of the principle of ‘ flexibility ’ in both the PNP aims and its various courses and documents , there was an inherent contradiction in the notion of flexibility being mandated from above , especially given the didactic power of the model classroom .
30 As usual , much was made of the fact that he was younger brother to the wildly successful Peregrine , now in Japan on tour with his group .
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