Example sentences of "[verb] much [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not a work of criticism though it contains much criticism along the way , and of the first order — for instance , Pound 's respectful demurrer from the high valuation that Eliot had put on Johnson 's Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 2 | In its Appendices the Royal Commission Report contains much information about water supplies for canals ( see appendix E ) . |
| 3 | ‘ What matters to us is the fact that we have not enjoyed much success against Southern Hemisphere nations and until we start beating them regularly we will never be world champions . |
| 4 | Despite the rout at Dupplin Moor David II still enjoyed much support in Scotland and Balliol realized he could only hold his gains with English assistance . |
| 5 | This was 4 months before the St. Louis meeting mentioned above , so the publication evidently did not stimulate much excitement in the United States . |
| 6 | You do n't need much skill for that . |
| 7 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 8 | The players wo n't need much lifting for that . |
| 9 | However , since the wave is providing all the power for the turn you do not need much power from the rig . |
| 10 | For whatever reason , British society places much emphasis on solidarity with others rather than competition between individuals , and it is this phenomenon which is often mistaken for class ’ |
| 11 | Erm I am trying to local plan , places much emphasis on the use of recycled materials to reduce the rate of gravel extraction in the county and the associated environmental damage . |
| 12 | At the time of writing Roeder found Mr. W. H. Mayson , a surviving grandson of William Green in Manchester , who provided much material about Green . |
| 13 | ( Cabo Virgenes is part of the Argentine Republic , and there are two lighthouses at Cabo Espiritu Santo on Tierra del Fuego , one belonging to Argentina , the other to Chile , the frontier in between ; their duplication causes much confusion to seamen . ) |
| 14 | It was past midnight , so this was the start of Sunday , and Sundays in Taiwan were not going to bear much resemblance to Sundays in the countries she had known so far . |
| 15 | The dreams cease to bear much relation to reality , but are so important to both men that they can not be awakened from , controlled or stopped , by anything short of death . |
| 16 | The researchers were unable to find much evidence of change at all , especially in the areas targeted by Sir Roy Griffiths : the involvement of clinicians in resource management and greater sensitivity to the consumer . |
| 17 | STEVEN SPIELBERG is too popular with the public to find much favour with critics . |
| 18 | Morris 's contribution to this match is unlikely to find much space in Wisden , but he already looks the part . |
| 19 | These newspapers devoted much space to religious dogma and disputes . |
| 20 | In January 1937 , for example , L'Humanite devoted much space to an account of the Moscow trials . |
| 21 | He devoted much effort over many years to restoring him to his rightful place in the chemical hierarchy . |
| 22 | In 1924 the First Labour Government devoted much effort to restoring normal relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | In 1652 , on the death of his father , he inherited the estate of Deepdene , near Dorking , Surrey , and thereafter he devoted much effort to its beautification , constructing an elaborate Italianate garden of the kind popular in seventeenth-century England , with terraces landscaped on a U-shaped hillside , and with appendages including a laboratory . |
| 24 | Unionist publications also devoted much attention to Asquith 's Honours Lists , and in October 1912 Our Flag listed thirty-nine " Radical Plutocrats " , of which twenty-three had been ennobled by the Liberals — " so far " . |
| 25 | For example , the Commonwealth Government of Australia has , in recent years , devoted much attention to the quality of service from its internal audit staff . |
| 26 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |
| 27 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 28 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |
| 29 | He was chairman of the finance committee of the royal jubilee exhibition in Manchester in 1887 , a JP for the city of Manchester and the county of Lancashire for over thirty years , and with his wife ( the daughter of William Crippin of Manchester ) devoted much time to philanthropic and charitable undertakings . |
| 30 | But the most ingenious theory is from Bishop Auckland historian John Land , who devoted much time to the Eden Theatre 's history and particularly its links with Stan Laurel . |