Example sentences of "[verb] much [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its Appendices the Royal Commission Report contains much information about water supplies for canals ( see appendix E ) . |
| 2 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 3 | For whatever reason , British society places much emphasis on solidarity with others rather than competition between individuals , and it is this phenomenon which is often mistaken for class ’ |
| 4 | At the time of writing Roeder found Mr. W. H. Mayson , a surviving grandson of William Green in Manchester , who provided much material about Green . |
| 5 | The dreams cease to bear much relation to reality , but are so important to both men that they can not be awakened from , controlled or stopped , by anything short of death . |
| 6 | The researchers were unable to find much evidence of change at all , especially in the areas targeted by Sir Roy Griffiths : the involvement of clinicians in resource management and greater sensitivity to the consumer . |
| 7 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 8 | The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies . |
| 9 | And a representative of CBP , selling the idea at the Cannes Film Festival , has already reported much interest from TV companies in Australia , New Zealand and the United States of America . |
| 10 | In theraps species the changes in colours and body pattern distinction are very noticeable indeed , whereas in others , like managuense , which do not display much variation in colour , the male will go very dark , jet black even , with the Jaguar pattern becoming very distinct . |
| 11 | Business histories provide much evidence of weakness at this level . |
| 12 | We found much literature on client participation and even more on effectiveness , but there is considerable controversy on how to measure these variables . |
| 13 | The research by Thompson ( 1986 ) on decision making within district health authorities found much evidence of bargaining , not just between the different coalitions of politicians , administrators and the medical profession but also within these coalitions . |
| 14 | It thus becomes a major provider of information on the industry as a whole , so that the analyst has much material for study . |
| 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 | Ports at a distance from the Tunnel , whether dealing principally in passenger or freight traffic , are unlikely to suffer much loss of business after 1993 . |
| 17 | The predominantly formal gardens of this period , influenced by France and the Netherlands , made much use of statuary , as the early eighteenth-century engravings of Kip copiously show . |
| 18 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 19 | And given the general increase in mobility , would even a massive increase in investment in railways make much difference to road traffic ? |
| 20 | The third mechanism , that of the price agreement , upon which management placed much reliance in single-place working , also broke down because of the detailed breakdown of jobs . |
| 21 | USAAF memorials have received much coverage in Fly/Past so I shall only mention a few . |
| 22 | USAAF memorials have received much coverage in Fly/Past so I shall only mention a few . |
| 23 | The association between handedness and the cerebral lateralisation of language offers much scope for speculation . |
| 24 | But this is still a reading of great insight which I shall often return to , for it offers much food for thought . |
| 25 | The physical care of frail old people necessarily involves much attention to food and to toileting . |
| 26 | It 's true , I have n't given much thought to Mummy . |
| 27 | Indeed , while some laptop devices had emerged such as the Cornucopia and the Dynabook , it seemed unlikely that handheld CD-ROM technology of any kind would make much impact in world markets for some years . |
| 28 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 29 | The failure of the 12 to act in concert does not give much ground for optimism . |
| 30 | In practice the low discounts on non-net books do not give much margin of flexibility . |