Example sentences of "[noun] make much [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The industry made much play of the fact that the flask survived virtually unscathed . |
2 | Because of the practical difficulties in overcoming the first of these problems , I can not see , even if the price of the D-to-A converter were a few pence , Class D in its Reeves or Sandler guise making much progress . |
3 | The changes will take several months to make much difference to most people 's lives ( price controls remain on basic foods , heating and transport ; the auctions of small businesses will begin only at the end of January ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Bloomsbury makes much ado about its author , David Mason . |
6 | The betting suggested that the Ulsterman 's mount in the Anything Goes Stakes , The Goofer , might need motorised assistance to make much impact . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ The geese make much noise , ’ Marguerite remarked , frowning at them as she sped past . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Nor did the documentary impulse make much impact on the films of Herbert Wilcox , whose ‘ patriotic ’ pictures always had a preachy tone . |
11 | Despite all the shortcomings of British society in this period from a socialist point of view , and the alarming prospects raised by nuclear armament , it has to be said that capitalism was ‘ too successful ’ , in developing the productive forces and meeting popular aspirations , for political forces supporting a radical transformation of social relations to make much headway . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Most staff are untrained and there is as yet little evidence that training makes much difference to the quality of care ( Sinclair , 1988b , p. 270 ) . |
15 | And given the general increase in mobility , would even a massive increase in investment in railways make much difference to road traffic ? |
16 | The case received enormous coverage and the popular press made much use of the opportunity to reveal the titillating detail from the court interaction . |
17 | For although Force Orders inevitably direct that such material will be submitted for assessment , it is typical that in a task-orientated institution which gives low priority or credence to the academic tome , the systems to ensure submission of the essays , or the ability to make much use of any useful ideas they contain , often remains sketchy . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 ? " |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He experimented on the effects of removing the ovaries of rabbits , and speculated extensively , but lacked too many important facts to make much sense of his discoveries . |