Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swimming was n't very good ; the whole place stank of sardines , and the noble castle turned out to be a youth hostel ; also there was a forty-mile-an-hour gale blowing much of the time . |
| 2 | The plates realigned and subduction resumed , sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras . |
| 3 | Before becoming a coastguard officer , Mr Baker spent six years seeing much of the world as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy . |
| 4 | England was already an old country by late Saxon times , and the new evidence suggests a relatively large population utilising much of the landscape to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 5 | This is the HS.125 which to all intents and purposes is a mini-airliner exhibiting much of the technology required for a 1960s jetliner . |
| 6 | As the Soviet authorities were still trying to restore order in the Transcaucasian republic of Azerbaijan following the violence there in January [ see below ; pp. 37168-70 ] , nationalist rioting erupted on Feb. 11 in Dushanbe , the capital of the Central Asian republic of Tadjikistan , which had hitherto been largely untouched by the nationalist or inter-ethnic unrest afflicting much of the southern Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 8 | For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers . |
| 9 | Even the most gifted editor would have problems turning much of the obligatory information into riveting reading . |
| 10 | Since we can not count on people grasping much of the words at a first hearing it is the musical qualities which will contribute to the success or failure of a choral piece . |
| 11 | Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member . |
| 12 | For example , catalytic converter equipped petrol cars contribute 30–35 per cent more carbon dioxide — gas causing much of the greenhouse effect — to the environment than diesel cars . |
| 13 | In more resent times , with motorways covering much of the country , the luxury coach , complete with colour television , is the preferred method of transport . |
| 14 | Thanks to the success of Darlington , BR is now poised to announce a much wider scheme covering much of the North-East network . |
| 15 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |
| 16 | He employed the conventional Velikovskian technique of selecting evidence while at the same time adopting much of the traditional ( that is , false ) Velikovskian lore . |