Example sentences of "[adv] much of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 2 | There is good reason for this ; at its best , the teaching situation takes on much of the character of the research process , with an open dialogue between the students and teacher , the teacher being the first among equals . |
| 3 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 4 | It should be noted in all these changes that an underlying Government objective is to pass on much of the cost of training to the industry . |
| 5 | The organisms are normally capable of breaking down much of the effluent . |
| 6 | Draws together much of the recent scholarship on Degas , both art historical and technical , and presents it in a readable but sophisticated manner . |
| 7 | Sex education draws together much of the Whitehouse ‘ philosophy ’ , for not only does it explicitly focus upon the young , but also it carries at least an implicit stance on the role and utility of the contemporary family . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , being familiar with an approach takes away much of the need for real judgement . |
| 9 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 10 | Early season winds are cold and take away much of the pleasure . |
| 11 | It is n't giving away much of the story to say that Miranda at first sees her mother 's behaviour — alternately doing everything she can to please her husband and then screaming rage at him for letting her down — as a clear example of women 's oppression . |
| 12 | On the lower slopes the ice scraped away much of the surface leaving smooth rounded hills , particularly in the Southern Uplands . |
| 13 | The act of giving birth strips away much of the personal life ; labouring women may cease to notice who is in the room , or to hear what is said . |
| 14 | Colin added : ‘ We will be used as a purchasing arm by British Gas , right down to fairly small items , which takes away much of the administration burden from them . ’ |
| 15 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 16 | ‘ If the pelargoniums were overwintered in their old containers then it is best to remove them , shake off much of the old potting compost from the roots and repot in fresh compost — moderately heavy , with good drainage but not more than one-quarter peat or other organic matter . |
| 17 | The acceptance of the tax cut in the House last month , against the wishes of Democratic leaders , has used up much of the good will cautiously built up earlier in the year for a medium-term , bipartisan deficit-cutting campaign . |
| 18 | Administration takes up much of the day , especially if there are a lot of patrols . |
| 19 | The first is usually ignored and forgotten : it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus . |
| 20 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
| 21 | For her actions point up much of the absurdity that underlines the whole concept of monarchy . |
| 22 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 23 | Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case . |
| 24 | Again , this sums up much of the difference between the two films — the wit of the weightless tricks in 2001 depends largely on their being done ‘ live ’ on very big sets . |
| 25 | This takes up much of the last week or more and is written out in precise detail . |
| 26 | The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons , which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter , can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons . |
| 27 | At ground-floor level she discovered a games-room , a large slate-bed billiard table taking up much of the space , and a selection of tennis racquets and other games equipment suggesting that there were the courts and space for all these things . |
| 28 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 29 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 30 | Howard Seymour , of BZW , said the profits came mostly from the write-down of Barratt 's land banks , which made up much of the losses 18 months ago . |