Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] much [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical care of frail old people necessarily involves much attention to food and to toileting . |
| 2 | The females close in on him , led by some old lady dolphin who has obviously had much practice at settling sharks . |
| 3 | This is not to say , of course , that there is no relationship at all between reading and spelling : but it does seem that teaching phonics may not necessarily have much effect on spelling ability . |
| 4 | An increase in money supply will not necessarily have much effect on spending ; instead people may simply increase their holdings of idle speculative balances , with a corresponding decline in the speed with which money circulates ( V ) . |
| 5 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |
| 6 | But none of these was strong enough to make much difference to the general picture of eighteenth-century Europe as overwhelmingly monarchical . |
| 7 | One of the members [ almost certainly Francis Maginn ] intended to urge the adoption of the word " deaf " only at the Congress , but seeing that it would only cause much loss of time to no purpose he allowed his motion to drop for the present . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 9 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 10 | As usual , one of these aspects of life does not make much sense without the other . |
| 11 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 12 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |
| 13 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 14 | In practical terms it may not make much difference to consumers when they do that . ’ |
| 15 | She may find new capabilities in herself and her present machine , advanced technology does not make much difference to the finished result and costs a lot . |
| 16 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 17 | Observers suggest that the White Paper 's proposals will not make much difference to the overall amount of coal burnt in the UK , although a greater proportion will be likely to come form UK sources . |
| 18 | The latest findings may not make much difference to clinical practice in this country . |
| 19 | But Leeds ' own tartan terror , Gordon Strachan , insists it does not make much difference to players with championship credentials . |
| 20 | Now you tell me that he no longer plays much part in the business . |
| 21 | During his fortnight-long cross examination , Robert Priddle , the Department of Energy 's witness at the inquiry , explained that Whitehall no longer placed much emphasis on the need to help Britain 's beleaguered nuclear industry as a justification for Sizewell B. |
| 22 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 23 | I have not given much thought to that question , for the simple reason that I do not follow the elaborate paranoid theory advanced by the hon. Gentleman who believes that I am so worried about those annual reports . |
| 24 | It has been known for a tough roadman-sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | This was 4 months before the St. Louis meeting mentioned above , so the publication evidently did not stimulate much excitement in the United States . |
| 27 | However , since the wave is providing all the power for the turn you do not need much power from the rig . |
| 28 | The variations mentioned above provide much flexibility with different combinations of dose and speeds of potency increase reaffirming the importance of ‘ meticulous observation of the sensitivity of each patient . ’ |
| 29 | Although malabsorption of fat and protein have been extensively investigated , malabsorption of complex carbohydrate has not attracted much attention in patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency . |
| 30 | Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France . |