Example sentences of "much [prep] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is convenient for busy human owners , it is too much for the cat to eat at once , unless it is starving — which is rarely the case with well-loved family pets . |
| 2 | It is very much for the providers to determine the future picture . |
| 3 | It does n't cost much for the ships to take him as a passenger , and it keeps him happy . " |
| 4 | Terrestrial animals move around too much for the naturalist to think easily in terms of a stable community , and the main development of animal ecology did not take place until the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Her personality is just too much for the cameras to contain . ’ |
| 6 | Lamb allowed too much for the ball going across him , and dragged one that was coming back off the pitch onto his leg stump from side off . |
| 7 | Situations can arise , whether physical , emotional , mental or spiritual , which are just too much for the individual to cope with . |
| 8 | But the second milking , and so forth on , perhaps the thir second or third milking they used to get milk , what they called beastlings and it was very often too much for the calves to take , so she got a full bag . |
| 9 | Now in the early thirties this was too much for the troops to take , so they took their problem to Shaw who then went to the NAAFI and bought all the cups for a penny . |
| 10 | AD 695 that travellers from afar , or foreigners , are instructed to shout or blow a horn before leaving a road , to avoid being treated as a thief or worse ; this says as much about the controls placed on the English population as the desire to protect foreigners . |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | How much of the plan had Aunt Louise understood ? |
| 13 | Much of the singing has also still to settle . |
| 14 | ‘ Much of the poetry studied was contemporary or near-contemporary , although many classes had encountered at least one poem by a first world war poet . ’ |
| 15 | WP What do you think of the notion that much of the poetry produced in Eastern Europe as ‘ dissident ’ poetry has had a kind of easy ride because of its political context ? |
| 16 | I also suggest that much of the bewilderment felt by teachers about the nature of the subject that they were teaching can be traced to both Brian Way 's and Dorothy Heathcote 's disclaimer that drama could be important in itself . |
| 17 | The two internal water wheels and much of the gearing remain inside open to view . |
| 18 | WWF is giving money for conservation all the time in Northern Ireland , with much of the spending going into coastal projects , the theme of this year 's Walk for Wildlife campaign . |
| 19 | The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable . |
| 20 | The global fishing industry of more than 1 million medium or large boats has become unprofitable , the FAO says , with costs of US$124,000 million and revenue of only US$70,000 million in 1990 , with much of the shortfall covered by state subsidies . |
| 21 | Much of the progress achieved in studies of Quaternary environmental change has involved increasing amounts of interdisciplinary cooperation . |
| 22 | Much of the difficulty stems from the ethos of individualism which is central to the contemporary Western society but which is notably absent from most of the societies which social anthropologists study . |
| 23 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 24 | Much of the syllabus has become part of the training of dancers all over the world . |
| 25 | Much of the booty consisted of works of art , including a statue of Athena by Pheidias , displayed by Paullus in the temple of Fortuna . |
| 26 | Much of the reorganisation has still to be decided in talks among the regiments . |
| 27 | Much of the cost involved in manufacturing is in the cost of themetal . |
| 28 | Much of the cost goes to the Government in stamp duties and Land Registry fees . |
| 29 | Yes , and I suspect that it has been an almost unique experience in that so much of the cost has been provided by other Governments . |
| 30 | ‘ So how much of the rest do you think is true ? ’ |