Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] much " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The market has since done much to polish up its self-regulation , though it is still far from squeaky-clean . |
| 2 | Its evident thinness corresponds also to Ginguene 's observation : ‘ this thick rod which Rousseau mocks … has since got much more diminutive ’ . |
| 3 | The females close in on him , led by some old lady dolphin who has obviously had much practice at settling sharks . |
| 4 | Internally , GE has already done much to dismantle the bureaucratic command-and-control systems that beset so many of America 's big businesses . |
| 5 | The disabled people 's movement has already done much solid work in redefining disability and in creating the basis of a new hegemony of ideas which rests on direct experience of the problems we face in our daily lives . |
| 6 | He has already done much to improve support for local action , encouraging and advising our many active volunteers . |
| 7 | And a representative of CBP , selling the idea at the Cannes Film Festival , has already reported much interest from TV companies in Australia , New Zealand and the United States of America . |
| 8 | Hippocampal long-term potentiation is clearly a model system of immense promise — and indeed one which has already yielded much information — about the ways in which neurophysiological changes can be translated into biochemical and structural mechanisms . |
| 9 | You can shield your mind , but Pool has already found much interesting information in the thoughts of the women called Ace and Bernice . |
| 10 | This problem has always bedeviled much of the research on epidemiology . |
| 11 | John Ebdon has always made much of astronomy 's links with the past , culminating in 1980 with the opening of The Astronomers gallery — which tells the story of the subject in light and sound through the achievements of five famous astronomers . |
| 12 | While the hangar has clearly attracted much of the limelight during the last couple of years , NAM have been undertaking a programme of conservation on their larger airframes . |
| 13 | This , along with the increasing use of biocides ( herbicides , pesticides and fungicides ) in food-crop production , and factory-farming methods of rearing livestock ( with increasing reliance on antibiotics , hormones and other drugs ) , has reduced the quality of the food we eat and has probably rendered much of it actually harmful . |
| 14 | Kummer ( 1975 ) has also done much to clarify the rules that govern the formation of a gelada harem . |
| 15 | The work of these revisionists has also done much to advance our knowledge of the intricacies of sixteenth and seventeenth-century theology . |
| 16 | Conscious preservation has also done much to prevent these copious records from undergoing erosion by destruction and loss on the scale which might have occurred in other centuries . |
| 17 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 18 | The film has undoubtedly done much to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap , and on a number of levels . |
| 19 | Lodge , an amusing and amiable 54 , has previously enjoyed much flirtation but little consummation from film and television . |
| 20 | Much of the new housing appearing on Skye of late is unsympathetic and has accordingly received much criticism . |
| 21 | The problems reflect a painful transition period for Bolt Beranek as its major market — the military military , on which it depended for almost half its revenue — is slipping away while it has yet to see much return from its substantial investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching or its T/10 Integrated Access Device . |
| 22 | However , increasing congestion in the airspace over southern England may alter the balance of advantage although this has yet to have much impact on scheduled flights . |
| 23 | Whether this redirection has yet had much effect in the classroom is another matter entirely from my own observations there seems as yet to have been few major changes in practice . |
| 24 | Despite promises of reductions in sulphur , the British Government has yet to make much progress . |
| 25 | The virus has yet to make much headway in the wider community . |
| 26 | The regulatory mechanisms which control the activity of the MHC class II genes at the transcriptional level has therefore received much attention ( 2,3 ) . |
| 27 | Drug smuggling by swallowing packages of drugs or by concealing them in the rectum or vagina has recently received much publicity after several couriers have died following rupture of these parcels . |
| 28 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 29 | Mr Clinton can not run the risk of sending Americans into a war that has never engaged much public attention without congressional cover . |
| 30 | Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community . |