Example sentences of "[noun sg] much [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice much of the initiation and review of management policy fell to the four full-time members acting with the chief officers . |
| 2 | Four raids were made on Malta on Sunday 13th. , but the Hurricanes were involved in escorting four destroyers into harbour much of the day , and only two interceptions were made . |
| 3 | By exposing a disinfectant to dirt in the cleaning process the dirt forms a physical barrier , protecting micro-organisms from attack , and as a result much of the disinfectant activity is expended uselessly against dirt . |
| 4 | As a result much of the evidence for the evolution of kinship in The Origin is irrelevant . |
| 5 | As a result much of the energies of the NUAAW are devoted to organizational problems . |
| 6 | Of course much of the flow is contractual and employers and employees have had little choice about contributing to such schemes . |
| 7 | In this case much of the work shown was subsequently ( and through this emphasis ) identified as an autonomous stylistic movement in art , and of course this was often likely to be the case . |
| 8 | In the opening speech , the Malaysian Prime Minister , Mahathir Mohamad , made a strongly worded attack on the rich industrialized countries ' attempts to force developing countries to compromise their economic development and foot much of the bill for environmental protection measures . |
| 9 | Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time . |
| 10 | They were careful to keep the bull in the same field much of the time but sometimes they would have to move him and occasionally he would get out , so one always had to be wary . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time . |
| 12 | The relationship between the personal representatives of a deceased partner and the trustee of a bankrupt partner and the continuing partners is considered further in Chapter 8. ( b ) Under the Solicitors ' Act Much of the work of a solicitor is now the subject of regulations made by the Law Society under the Solicitors ' Act . |
| 13 | Inevitably , in a detailed report of this type much of the information is specialised . |
| 14 | The desire to shelter large sections of the population from military service also strengthened the willingness of most governments to employ foreign mercenaries , who retained throughout this period much of the importance they had possessed since the Renaissance . |
| 15 | The dolphin has undergone some remarkable adaptations in order to survive a life in which it is under water much of the time . |
| 16 | Along with his paternal role as protector of the weak , defender of the state and dispenser of justice , the Inca , Pharaoh s ) r divine king summed up in his person much of the image of the parents in the mind of the child and in the unconscious of the adult . |
| 17 | But even now it is almost impossible to define the relative economic importance of each town from the available archaeological evidence much of the interpretation depends on hypothesis . |
| 18 | As can be seen from the photo , in synspilum much of the rest of the body may also be reddish copper-gold , with rather irregular black patches and bluish areas , particularly on the belly and fins . |
| 19 | Do this , and you will find in a railway station much of the quietude and consolation of a cathedral . |
| 20 | It sought to reinvigorate the Church and enhance its spiritual life by bringing back into its service much of the ritual and many of the vestments , ornaments , etc. , that had been dispensed with at the time of the Reformation , BH 12 . |
| 21 | It is not , I suspect , the authors ' intention , but in their argument much of the blame for the present state of teaching appears to rest with the teachers themselves and those who train them . |
| 22 | more landmasses are above water than usual — although this may be a chicken-and-egg effect because during an ice age much of the world 's water is locked up as ice , so that ocean levels are lower |
| 23 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 24 | On the night hemisphere much of the surface is at about 100 K. Were Mercury to keep the same face to the Sun then the night hemisphere would be close to 0 K. The higher temperature that actually exists has been known since 1962 . |
| 25 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 26 | In this way much of the movement of exotic items which can be traced archaeologically , can be seen as part of a system of ceremonial exchange in the formation of alliances , that is used by the heads of lineages for important political and social transactions . |
| 27 | Dataquest says that to date much of the growth in the Unix market has been in the scientific and engineering world , but that future growth will be more business-oriented . |
| 28 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 29 | In the Larne basin much of the thickening occurs in the Lower Permian : Larne-2 proved about 1500 ft of Lower Permian sandstones above 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs . |
| 30 | Though Tuzla is the only officially declared safe area in central Bosnia , in fact much of the territory between it , Sarajevo and Zenica , two other safe zones , will become a sort of basket-case protectorate . |