Example sentences of "[to-vb] much [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the subjects he detailed were the attempts of U.S. insurance companies and the { Mediaid } system to pass much of the burden of care onto families ; the great strain placed on family and personal relationships ; hardships in adjusting to residential situations ; and medical difficulties with such things as bladder and bowel management , skin diseases , constant pain , spastic muscle movement , regulating body temperature and resistance to respiratory complications . |
| 2 | Apart from the fact that the McCarthy purges of alleged Communists had left a bad scar on the film industry , two other developments were eventually to bear much of the blame for the demise of the glitterama of old Hollywood . |
| 3 | So , shareholders can not be relied upon necessarily to provide much of a constraint on managers . |
| 4 | The 839 succession-plan was too recent and contentious to provide much of a guide for action in the summer of 840 . |
| 5 | The power will be supplied at an estimated cost of around US$0.05 per kilowatt hour — competitive with fossil fuel power and considerably cheaper than nuclear power , which continues to provide much of the country 's electricity from a number of ageing reactors , including those at Chernobyl . |
| 6 | The most important role of the Pinot Noir is to provide much of the body , flesh and grip of a Champagne cuvée especially in the middle term of maturity . |
| 7 | Here are the principal themes of the populist discourse wielded by the labour leadership of West Ham in the dying hours of the war that was to inform much of the course of politics in the ensuing years . |
| 8 | ( You do not need to know much about the topic to do this ; you only need to be able to identify what you would need to know . ) |
| 9 | The weapons bay is too small to accommodate much of a bomb : it is designed to take the AMRAAM , a new air-to-air missile that uses its own radar to hunt down and destroy enemy aircraft . |
| 10 | It was too dark to see much of the cottage when she did finally arrive , and , in any case , getting soaked as she lifted her belongings out of the boot did not encourage her to spend time looking around . |
| 11 | He penned the 1964 stage play , Curse of the Daleks , and spent two years writing all the back page Dalek comic strips for TV 21 , only to see much of the credit for all the above going — with the royalties — to Terry Nation . |
| 12 | They have scouts , but only in front , and they are riding too fast to see much of the ground . ’ |
| 13 | In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler . |
| 14 | Such a survey would probably serve to replace much of the need for a Decennial Census once established and would provide up-to-date estimates . |
| 15 | People who do not care so long as the passing hour is comfortable and cheerful are not likely to exhibit much of a front when they call themselves a union . |
| 16 | By releasing five senior officers imprisoned for crimes committed while they ran the country , from 1976 to 1983 , President Carlos Menem may have hoped to eliminate much of the discontent that lay behind three rebellions against his predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , and one against himself on December 3rd . |
| 17 | Similar ambivalence has continued to characterise much of the thinking behind British urban policy . |
| 18 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 19 | It is not the case that we can or do simply distinguish , in a completely neutral way , some major historical types of political system , even in the non-evolutionist manner that I have suggested ; for on one side , what is seen to be significant in the past is influenced by current concerns , and on the other side these concerns have , in any case , a very great practical importance and are bound to engage much of the attention of political thinkers . |
| 20 | Andréew Fisher had been another contemporary from Sydney and an ability to write , a law degree , and a background in student papers and films made him a choice to handle much of the business side . |
| 21 | If he 's met with an accident , the moors are far too vast for the two of us to cover much of an area before dark . ’ |
| 22 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 23 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 24 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 25 | Grandparents are sometimes left to do much of the childminding while parents are out at work . |
| 26 | You will be able to do much of the installation with the power on , but turn it off before you make the final connection to the circuit that will supply the lights . |
| 27 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 28 | But , on the whole , he prefers to empower the police , by commission rogatoire to do much of the work on his behalf . |
| 29 | Rather than analyse speech mathematically it is possible to do much of the work electronically . |
| 30 | In order that too great a burden does not shift from bookseller to rep , Penguin , like Faber , has recruited merchandisers to do much of the checking . |