Example sentences of "much [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I ca n't say much for the rest of the paper . ’ |
| 2 | Is there anything much for the agenda for a week on Tuesday ? |
| 3 | ‘ So much for the bliss of rural life , ’ snapped the superintendent , as she slumped back into her seat , her nose wrinkling . |
| 4 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 5 | It says much for the resilience of the club , however , that for most of this period a healthy League position was held ( lowest finishing place was fourteenth in 1966 ) and Chapman would be proud to know that , nearly fifty years after his death , Arsenal are the longest surviving member of the First Division . |
| 6 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 7 | That they are included is as much for the protection of the member States themselves , who will be responsible for the budget of the organisation and need its field of operations to be defined , as for non-members who need to know the extent of the organisation 's powers . |
| 8 | An organisation capable of attracting international attention , to which people would come as much for the opportunity of discussion with other visitors , as for the opportunity of seeing the Highland problem at first hand . |
| 9 | Addressing the husband , I said , ‘ Thank your wife very much for the bottle of wine . |
| 10 | This behaviour undoubtedly enhances the survival of the transposon , but — as Crick , with Leslie Orgel , Ford Doolittle and Carmen Sapienza argued , it does n't necessarily do much for the bacterium in which the transposon is a passenger . |
| 11 | With an average age of 60 , customers choose his trips as much for the company of like-minded people as for the presence of an expert lecturer . |
| 12 | Eva could see great potential for future development hut feared that the added responsibility would he too much for the widow on top of the double load she already carried . |
| 13 | Neither seems to say much for the tenderness of the steaks . |
| 14 | One view of the provision of facilities to meet the needs of walkers would be that , despite some inadequacies in design and maintenance , there is much for the pedestrian to be thankful for . |
| 15 | Would n't do much for the value of the house , either . ’ |
| 16 | Hackworth was one of the great pioneers of the steam locomotive and the eminent railway engineer , D. K. Clark , stated that no single individual had , up to the year 1830 , done so much for the improvement of the locomotive . |
| 17 | It says much for the calibre of Mrs Kirkley that , after greeting Aggie with an inclination of her head and a smile , she looked at Millie , who was handing her the present , and said , ‘ Oh , thank you very much , Millie ; I 'm sure they 'll be delightful . |
| 18 | It would n't be fair for such a player — who could do much for the balance of the side as a genuine all-rounder — to be held back just because there was an ageing geriatric hanging around , trying to prolong his playing days . |
| 19 | The Practical Application : So much for the theory behind digitisers , what about a version for the Spectrum user ? |
| 20 | I did not think £9 too much for a fine steak , or £150 too much for the sort of weekend that would cost £200 in Edinburgh or London . |
| 21 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 22 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
| 23 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 24 | M. Shirley Emerson , a GP from Cambridge married to another GP , writes : ‘ On the whole I think women whinge too much about the inability of men to cope , but probably give them little chance to practise . |
| 25 | This is similar to ‘ Futility ’ in the sense that Owen uses personal experience to get his message across but his is not so much about the pointlessness of war in general but is more focused on the individual soldier and the difference between death on the battlefield and death in your own town . |
| 26 | Anne had talked so much about the gramophone at the Redmond house that Pat had bought a cabinet gramophone for the parlour , stipulating that the family must buy the records . |
| 27 | Conversely , the school tests for explicitness do not tell us very much about the exercise of multiple points of view . |
| 28 | Most of them work on the arts pages and do n't know much about the rest of the paper . |
| 29 | No I did n't know much about the glen at all But no nothing exciting enough to speak about . |
| 30 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |