Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] much [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O God , give your grace to the United Nations Organisation in all its manifold work ; in its work for the children who suffer so much from the injustices of our society , in education and in health , in the relief of poverty and hunger , and in its work for peace . |
| 2 | Fish do not find worms that look like that and hooks lose so much of their penetrating power . |
| 3 | But the ‘ and 's ’ and ‘ or 's ’ and the more and more rarely irritate , and are triumphant in the great set-pieces which mean so much to all three books — like that palimpsest of faces in Addis Ababa . |
| 4 | To abandon them at such a moment implies that they did not , after all , mean so much to the animal — they were not a ‘ safe haven ’ in quite the way they had pictured themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ I am having difficulty appreciating why the fate of these ghosts , who were unknown to you in life , mean so much to you , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Finally , can I thank , on your behalf , the sterling efforts of all heads of departments and staff at Trinity Road , and all my colleagues in our Council and Committees whose efforts mean so much to the work of the Association . |
| 7 | Shelley , you mean so much to me — come down to the pool , and let's talk things over quietly . |
| 8 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 9 | This chapter will therefore look at status in the landscape , since this hierarchy and the differences in status are so evident and mean so much in terms of why the landscape looks like it does . |
| 10 | The bourgeois household , however , was merely the nucleus of the larger family connection within which the individual operated : ‘ the Rothschilds ’ , ‘ the Krupps ’ , or for that matter ‘ the Forsytes ’ , who make so much of nineteenth-century social and economic history an essentially dynastic affair . |
| 11 | You concentrate so much on bringing up your children correctly , that suddenly you do n't have a life of your own . ’ |
| 12 | We concentrate so much on parental disappointment that we forget the other face of the coin . |
| 13 | This is why current affairs programmes concentrate so much on doom and gloom , even away from the big stories of the day . |
| 14 | Among all the letters in Anselm 's letter collection written by others than himself , there are no others which display so much of the heightened emotion of friendship characteristic of Anselm 's own letters , and they show Osbern 's state of near despair at Anselm 's long delay . |
| 15 | They are not quite like anybody else , anywhere , and they are especially different from the Slavs and Turks and Arabs who occupy so much of the neighbouring part of the world . |
| 16 | Now critics of contemporary systems say so much for the worse for contemporary system , we have to move to one of the other models , maybe suitably amended and only then will we be truly free and equal . |
| 17 | I want so much for you , and you want nothing for yourselves . ’ |
| 18 | We expect so much of them . |
| 19 | ( iv ) After the eggs have settled to the bottom of the dish , replace as much of the hyaluronidase solution as possible with warm M2 + BSA , collect the eggs by mouth pipette and wash them free of cumulus cells by repeated passage through further washes of M2 + BSA . |
| 20 | Th'would n't say as much to me face . |
| 21 | As an apologia for New York 's fiscal tangle , though , they say as much about the nomenklatura as about the inevitability of $10 billion budgets . |
| 22 | Archaeological analyses say as much about the interpreters as about the extinct cultures . |
| 23 | Nor , judging by the bravura new stories , do the women writers of the 1990s expect as much from the future as their forebears did : old age is portrayed as painfully grim and burdensome in Candia McWilliam 's twilight home tale ; the classy heroine of Emily Prager 's Moonwalk still weeps over wrecked love and dreams . |
| 24 | In the classified columns of the same newspapers advertisements for the return of runaway apprentices testify as much to harsh treatment as they do to the restlessness of youth , resentful at the constraining nature of apprenticeship . |
| 25 | The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me . |
| 26 | M. Shirley Emerson , a GP from Cambridge married to another GP , writes : ‘ On the whole I think women whinge too much about the inability of men to cope , but probably give them little chance to practise . |
| 27 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 28 | Cos the people want too much for them ! |
| 29 | One marriage counsellor commented , ‘ It is a common difficulty that couples want too much from each other . |
| 30 | Well you know how he is , if you say too much to him , do n't do that , do n't shout at me ! |