Example sentences of "[adv prt] much of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is good reason for this ; at its best , the teaching situation takes on much of the character of the research process , with an open dialogue between the students and teacher , the teacher being the first among equals . |
| 2 | It should be noted in all these changes that an underlying Government objective is to pass on much of the cost of training to the industry . |
| 3 | The organisms are normally capable of breaking down much of the effluent . |
| 4 | The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons , which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter , can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons . |
| 5 | For her actions point up much of the absurdity that underlines the whole concept of monarchy . |
| 6 | Administration takes up much of the day , especially if there are a lot of patrols . |
| 7 | The first is usually ignored and forgotten : it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus . |
| 8 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 9 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 10 | At ground-floor level she discovered a games-room , a large slate-bed billiard table taking up much of the space , and a selection of tennis racquets and other games equipment suggesting that there were the courts and space for all these things . |
| 11 | Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case . |
| 12 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 13 | Again , this sums up much of the difference between the two films — the wit of the weightless tricks in 2001 depends largely on their being done ‘ live ’ on very big sets . |
| 14 | Howard Seymour , of BZW , said the profits came mostly from the write-down of Barratt 's land banks , which made up much of the losses 18 months ago . |
| 15 | For example , I tell you , my boss , what I think you should hear , and leave out much of the rest ; and you , in turn , are telling your boss what you think he or she should hear , again leaving out the rest . |
| 16 | , Henry Edmund ( 1797–1864 ) , architect , was baptized 26 July 1797 at St Michael 's church , Bath , the son of James Goodridge , a leading builder in the city who carried out much of the development in the suburb of Bathwick , and his wife Anna Buck . |
| 17 | Contrary to popular belief , rainforests are not jungles through which you have to slash a path ; the tree tops screen out much of the sun and ground level plants do not grow that abundantly providing room to walk around in . |
| 18 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 19 | Despite the farmer carrying out much of the field work himself , the ploughing and other cultivations was undertaken by contractors when the farmer was absent at his off-farm employment . |
| 20 | Gilkes confirms he 's happy to stick with Sun 's Solaris Unix implementation , and although the firm took out much of the networking stuff obviously surplus to Sparcbook requirements , he 's not much interested in the various cut-down Unix desktop implementations . |
| 21 | Now the soaring trunks had raised this source of food high in the sky , creating a dense canopy that cut out much of the light . |
| 22 | The banding system irons out much of the effect of relative changes in property values within an area which , under the rating system , brought regular pressure for revaluation . |