Example sentences of "much [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued that these groups were formed as much for sociability as for making money , being made up of friends or acquaintances , but at any event their reasons fell short of promoting definite artistic programmes . |
| 2 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
| 3 | Here , Mrs Pettifer began to interject but the small gentleman silenced her with a flap of the wrist which was altogether not very gentlemanly and proved too much for the great lady detective who made a more purposeful interjection of her own . |
| 4 | Getting rid of me had proved too much for him and he was now trying to force through a muddled compromise . |
| 5 | The idea of leaving London for good — with its galleries , the opera and everything — was just too much for me . |
| 6 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 7 | . I think we have been silent too long , we 've tolerated too much for too long . ’ |
| 8 | This means that only the 20,000 readers of British Standards Institution publications hear about them : so much for public comment . |
| 9 | ‘ We accept that we might not get very much for it , but on the other hand we could get more , ’ says Julie Widlake . |
| 10 | As they had in losing to Bath on the day Wales lost to Bridgend , Neath conceded a first-half deficit which proved too much for them to turn over . |
| 11 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 12 | Not so much for the platform speakers , who have arrived , but for some of the floor speakers , who have n't and would like to . |
| 13 | It says much for the sang-froid of the practised musician that , despite the intrusion of a bomb hoax , both Dame Joan and the orchestra resumed the published programme as if no interruption had occurred . |
| 14 | It says much for Ackerley — and Parker — that he emerges out of much camp narcissism as a figure of genuine humility . |
| 15 | It was all too much for Khrushchev 's colleagues — notably Leonid Brezhnev , unequivocally identified as organizer of the coup , and Mikhail Suslov , in charge of ideology in those years , but also Yuri Andropov , a Central Committee secretary in 1964 who 18 years later would succeed Brezhnev as the Soviet leader . |
| 16 | If the whole notion of Designers ' Saturday is altogether too much for you , or if your designer credentials are simply too thin to merit attendance , do not despair . |
| 17 | Addressing the husband , I said , ‘ Thank your wife very much for the bottle of wine . |
| 18 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 19 | This is as much for their protection as ours , ’ says Gatfield ( see Mark Melton 's and Mark Boomla 's articles for details of the legal and financial aspects of recording , publishing and other contracts ) . |
| 20 | That sleeping peaceful beauty had been almost too much for her . |
| 21 | It has done so much for us . |
| 22 | It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke . |
| 23 | At least if a woman goes out to work she can escape that — her mind is occupied , she does not long so much for her home in Pakistan . |
| 24 | Often their husbands are much older than them , not so much for traditional reasons as because men settled in Britain are considered of higher status and class and therefore , being more desirable as sons-in-law , they can find young brides . |
| 25 | There was often just too much for me to finish on my own . |
| 26 | So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her . |
| 27 | However , a V8 would be too much for the Rover 800 's front-drive chassis — news ed |
| 28 | Besides , I 've done too much for the big pots . |
| 29 | It was not very well done , but well enough for me : indeed to see it really well acted would be too much for me . |
| 30 | The sanitation has improved since the merchant 's time , but it 's somewhere to treasure as much for what has n't happened to it as for what has . |