Example sentences of "much [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hurricane in the mid-1970s cause much damage and the fuselage was turned into a superb house-boat by David Drimmer . |
| 2 | We open on Thursday and at the moment we 've made about as much noise as a fart in a hurricane . ’ |
| 3 | Well er they they took so much money when the end of that when they stopped travelling the horse when they was finished the season , they went round all the farms and collected what they call the fairways money . |
| 4 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 5 | But we very much hope that the map will stay in Hereford and that we shall have the money we require for the Cathedral . |
| 6 | I feel that that is a good time at which to review the implications for the future , and I very much hope that the expertise that now exists will not be lost to the industry . |
| 7 | I very much hope that the work that we are already doing will lead to initiatives being taken by those countries as a result of the guidance that we have given at local government , as well as national , level . |
| 8 | I very much hope that the work of the commission can be significantly extended after the general election . |
| 9 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
| 10 | A year ago , the proposed health-service reforms were plainly losing the government almost as much support as the poll tax . |
| 11 | Although many economists would argue that capital gains , as for example when ICI shares are purchased for 2 and subsequently sold for 3 , are as much income as the dividend component of the return on an asset , in practice the Inland Revenue assesses and taxes capital gains separately . |
| 12 | If we are concerned with readers who have sensory deprivation , or if we are confronted with unfamiliar alphabets — in the writer 's case examples of these would be Arabic or Japanese — there may be much preparation before the process can continue . |
| 13 | Funnily enough , we had just as much peril when the thaw came , because it was so rapid that it caused flooding . |
| 14 | Too little support when the child is having difficulty , or too much intrusion when the child is succeeding , will have the same effect of reducing the child 's opportunities for developmental change . |
| 15 | NEALE DOUGHTY ( Twin Oaks ) : ‘ The delay at the start did n't affect him at all , but he had too much weight and the ground was probably too fast . ’ |
| 16 | But no chart placing carries as much weight as the sound of the record . |
| 17 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 18 | The headlights , in their blackout cowls , threw about as much light as a candle , and finally they went off the road . |
| 19 | The result is not only pain , but an enforced lay-off that can cause as much distress as the discomfort . |
| 20 | Too much research and the opportunity will disappear . |
| 21 | Arguing with him had about as much effect as a snowflake falling on a pond . |
| 22 | honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm . |
| 23 | Mr Alastair Brett , for the journalist and Times Newspapers Limited , said : ‘ The defendants , having made extensive inquiries into the allegation , are quite satisfied that Mr Bouvier was not the father of the plaintiff 's twins and very much regret that the allegation was ever published . |
| 24 | That young woman wo n't be much help and the doctor is hardly a suitable confidant in the circumstances . ’ |
| 25 | There is no copyright in a fictitious name and an action in passing-off is unlikely to be of much help if the defendant uses that name in relation to different goods or services . |
| 26 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 27 | In your twenties , you took as much exercise as a woodworm . |
| 28 | In this respect , then , it can be argued that the survey is too individualistic , not only in the sense that only individuals can respond to questionnaires , but also in that every individual is assumed to have as much importance as every other . |
| 29 | And would it make much difference if the pact only covered a limited number of seats ? |
| 30 | But few things make as much difference as the paper used . |