Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] much [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 2 | I have my eye on the subject ; the hon. Lady 's point is well taken and , in so far as I have control over these matters , I shall make certain that local authorities concentrate as much of their resources on local sport and recreation provision as they should . |
| 3 | The abundant records and maps of post-medieval and modern times mean that much of the estate structure for these periods can be seen in great detail . |
| 4 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |
| 5 | The divisional controllers themselves complained that this compromised their own line of authority within the division , and they generally harboured a strong feeling that headquarters interfered too much in the design of new stations . |
| 6 | Joseph Larson , chairman of the National Wetlands Technical Council , claimed that new rules mean that much of the Florida Everglades , Virginia 's Great Dismal Swamp and the prairie potholes in the Great Plains will no longer be officially recognized as wetlands . |
| 7 | This is why current affairs programmes concentrate so much on doom and gloom , even away from the big stories of the day . |
| 8 | He spoke of the fight to preserve as much of possible of the Island 's rail network in the period of the Beeching closures . |
| 9 | We have already been in touch with two GP practices in Middlesbrough to see how much of the medical history we can pick up , and shall be doing the same in Sunderland . |
| 10 | … enables the retailer to know how much of an item he has in stock . |
| 11 | Patrick , in fact , left his group abruptly when the violence became too much for him . |
| 12 | Relatively few amateur gardeners will be in a position to plan an entirely new garden of any serious size , so it would be rather academic to the majority of readers to go too much into siting and orientation of north , south or other aspects . |
| 13 | It is a special occasion as it coincides with a lovely Flower Celebration and we have Canon Harney to thank very much for allowing this to happen in our lovely Cathedral . |
| 14 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 15 | This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein . |
| 16 | This is perhaps the most important reason why Marx and Engels concentrated so much on Morgan 's work , and by and large accepted the main lines of his account of the early history of mankind . |
| 17 | For those , talk of variables smacked too much of talk of causes with no place for the human being as agent . |
| 18 | For the recipient to increase as much of X as shown at point 7 , it would be necessary for income to be increased to point 9 on the income consumption curve . |
| 19 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 20 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 21 | These six principles , which appeared from the experiment to relate as much to children as to adults , were : |
| 22 | The floating action has as much to with the stiffness of the tail as the flexibility of the tip . |
| 23 | The actual formation of gangs depends as much on the splits and alliances made by the gang leaders as on the gangs ' internal dynamics . |
| 24 | The magician did n't seem to mind , especially as the two clansmen seemed very much in awe of him although they studied Benjamin and myself like two hawks would chickens , as if savouring the thought of a meal to come . |
| 25 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 26 | With an irritability caused as much by her slimming diet as by the lack of a box , she almost stamped down the stairs into the basement , which was comfortingly warm , and found a couple of cardboard boxes . |
| 27 | Delegation depends as much upon the personality of the delegator as upon the abilities of the person to whom power is given . |
| 28 | Insurers protest too much on disclosure |
| 29 | Your drawing shows that much of the enamel is still intact . |
| 30 | But in the aftermath of the bid , while suggestions that TI paid too much for Dowty were still flying around the City , the group won praise and respect from many analysts when it released a detailed account of the provisions it would be making in connection with the takeover — £87.1m in all , of which £41m represents asset write-offs and £46.1m additional expenditure that TI will have to incur . |