Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] much [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The present building has had much rebuilding including restoration work in 1973 .
2 Over recent years , the study of the fire problem involved in high-bay ( high-racked ) warehouses has provoked much thought and discussion , and has brought with it the realisation that there are many factors to be considered in determining the correct solution to adopt .
3 This decision has provoked much animus among many who knew him and believed in him , sustaining the view that he had planned to ditch the Labour government .
4 It is by no means certain that the Tory tax offensive has gained much ground .
5 The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’
6 However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date .
7 I do n't believe reunification has had much effect at all .
8 One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’
9 The question of the relationship between current arrears and future repossession has aroused much interest because of the potential impact of the latter on house prices .
10 The department has directed much effort to European issues .
11 Once a valuable and historic site , Alghero has witnessed much upheaval and many a conflict .
12 And the princess 's closest friends claim that the friendship has done much harm to the royal marriage .
13 British research has made much use of the General Health Questionnaire ( GQH ) , which despite its name actually seems to index minor psychiatric morbidity ( ill-health ) .
14 To help in discovering the organisation and the capabilities of our faculty for perceiving speech , we need to be able to produce very small and finely-controlled differences in speech sounds , and experimental phonetics has made much use of speech produced by machines called speech synthesisers .
15 The post-war rise in divorce has attracted much debate amongst policy makers , welfare practitioners and the public at large , and yet the work of the probation service in providing welfare reports and related services to the courts in such situations has remained largely unresearched in the face of the preoccupation with their work with offenders .
16 In the past , top management has avoided much contact with computer systems .
17 This should be dealt with at an early stage , in case management needs to spend much time verifying facts and opinions in the report and making disclosures against them .
18 A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways .
19 A party leader who hopes to reach 10 Downing Street has to devote much time to party management , and policies and appointments have to be made with an eye on the reactions of party factions .
20 This discretion has attracted much criticism and means licensing practice differs from area to area .
21 Programme trading has attracted much criticism , especially after the stock market collapses in October 1987 and October 1989 .
22 This organ has received much attention from surgeons , who are confronted with the problems which arise when the prostate enlarges late in life and obstructs the urinary channel which passes through it .
23 The need to raise the quality of education has received much publicity over the last few years .
24 There was no justification for the ban in the first place and is the Secretary of State not concerned that the International Labour Organisation has expressed much concern over the continuing ban and it may well be that in view of the fact that the government is not willing to compromise in any way the I L O may well decide to formally rebuke and reprimand the government .
25 Poet and painter Adrian Henri has spent much time in Dieppe and its environs .
26 ( Aims and methods ) In early childhood , children grow and learn within their families and the importance of the family as a context for child development has received much attention .
27 Computer technology and its use has attracted much interest from the European Community ( EC ) .
28 The Constitution has undergone much development in the last two centuries , but the concerns and fears that motivated the Founding Fathers have not lost their relevance .
29 Motivating employees is another issue to which Laing has given much thought .
30 Perhaps at this stage it should be pointed out that Bakker has incurred much criticism from his academic peers .
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