Example sentences of "[prep] a much [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Archer in the Financial Times thought he had written ‘ a marvellous account of a much misunderstood age ’ . |
| 2 | Ending the suffering of a much loved pet requires acceptance , compassion and a great deal of courage |
| 3 | In the words of a much loved hymn , Jesus is described as ‘ prophet , priest and king ’ . |
| 4 | The support she may win in the crisis , where minor disagreements are sunk in the face of a much disliked enemy , can evaporate in everyday disputes , where the Prime Minister 's views must compete with many other acceptable views . |
| 5 | THE continuing slump in the pound robbed the Government of a much needed propaganda triumph yesterday . |
| 6 | More recently , they have contributed towards the services of a much needed nurse , and it is for this cause that they continue to donate a set sum each week together with raffle sales and other activities from which they will soon reach their target of another £600 , the same sum that was given earlier this year . |
| 7 | As infants slowly become aware of the mother as a separate person , they see her as the owner of a much needed resource . |
| 8 | New carpets , partitions , desks and offices have all been installed , together with the creation of a much needed reception area . |
| 9 | It will be a sad little ceremony , but the right end , I think , for a much admired man . ’ |
| 10 | We made our way back across the bridge through the huge puffin colony of lundaland to our comfortable turf-roofed house for a much needed meal . |
| 11 | The Children Act 1989 bringing disabled children into the same system as children in care , will provide an opportunity for a much needed impetus to research and to development in policies and practice concerning disabled children . |
| 12 | BR has defused critical scrutiny by skilful use of the media ; for example , it was able to undermine criticisms in the Serpell report by focusing public attention on the politically unacceptable options for a much reduced network . |
| 13 | However , I understand it has since been resold to yet another private company , who appear to have resold the lease to the Estates who in turn sold the farmland to local landowners but rented the house to the company , presumably for a much reduced sum . |
| 14 | Finally , while the agricultural industry has greatly increased its productivity since the end of the war , it has accomplished this with a much diminished labour force . |
| 15 | The Mark 2 engine however is fitted with a much improved Weslake head which is best left on . |
| 16 | Recognising the problem , district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis . |
| 17 | The First Floor Departure Lounge in the modern terminal provides Larne with a much needed conference and exhibition centre capable of handling numbers up to 400 persons . |
| 18 | We believe that certainly for the time being , the combination of the fighter aircraft and rapier will provide an acceptable level er of air defence with a much reduced air threat to the U K er which now exists . |
| 19 | ‘ In East Hampshire the one thing for certain is that Michael Mates will be returned , although with a much reduced majority . |
| 20 | It would appear that either the values had been substituted by the supplier ( without warning ) or the capacitors had been mistaken for components having an identical capacitance value but with a much reduced voltage rating . |
| 21 | Faced with a much reduced market for heavy trucks in Europe ( including the UK ) in the early part of the 1980s , talks were began between Leyland Vehicles and GM 's Bedford Trucks in 1984 to see if there was scope for collaboration between the two companies . |
| 22 | When the forest is felled , however , and replaced by monocultures of , for example , fruit trees , with a much reduced number of leaves per hectare , the system breaks down and there is often widespread crop damage . |
| 23 | By 1184 he was back in Germany , ruling his hereditary territories in peace , but with a much reduced status . |
| 24 | Part of the explanation is that the strike had ( like previous disputes ) left a legacy of financial burden and division within a much weakened union . |
| 25 | In a much governed kingdom like England royal administration included control over the sheriff and other local officers ; in some kingdoms it included little more than the issuing of charters and the collecting of somewhat meagre taxes . |
| 26 | in Ex parte Blain ; In re Sawers ( 1879 ) 12 Ch.D. 522 , 526 , in a much quoted passage : |
| 27 | In a much quoted statement , Brezhnev once asserted that civilian production accounted for 42 per cent of the output of defence industry itself . |
| 28 | Obviously such strict separation of functions results in a much reduced level of conflict between pedestrian and vehicle and a consequent lowered accident rate . |
| 29 | Excalibur Technologies Corp , which moves about a bit and is now headquartered in San Diego , has begun shipping its PixTex/EFS 3.0 document imaging software to a much broadened list of machines , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 Series 700s , IBM Corp RS/6000 , and Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix , VAX/VMS and Alpha AXP/Open VMS servers with Windows , X Window and Macintosh clients . |
| 30 | Excalibur Technologies Corp , which moves about a bit and is now headquartered in San Diego , has begun shipping its PixTex/EFS 3.0 document imaging software to a much broadened list of machines , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 Series 700s , IBM Corp RS/6000 , and Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix , VAX/VMS and Alpha AXP/Open VMS servers with Windows , X Window and Macintosh clients . |