Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The market has since done much to polish up its self-regulation , though it is still far from squeaky-clean . |
| 2 | This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister . |
| 3 | This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved . |
| 4 | The government has not done much to restrain it . |
| 5 | He has already done much to improve support for local action , encouraging and advising our many active volunteers . |
| 6 | Internally , GE has already done much to dismantle the bureaucratic command-and-control systems that beset so many of America 's big businesses . |
| 7 | Kummer ( 1975 ) has also done much to clarify the rules that govern the formation of a gelada harem . |
| 8 | Conscious preservation has also done much to prevent these copious records from undergoing erosion by destruction and loss on the scale which might have occurred in other centuries . |
| 9 | The work of these revisionists has also done much to advance our knowledge of the intricacies of sixteenth and seventeenth-century theology . |
| 10 | A broken marriage has n't done much to lighten them , either . ’ |
| 11 | But I mean th th the rich peasant has n't got much to lose has he ? |
| 12 | Has n't got much to say to any of us . |
| 13 | The film has undoubtedly done much to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap , and on a number of levels . |
| 14 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 15 | Pool players from Central and Western area had already achieved much to reach the annual pool competition final . |
| 16 | Centralizing revenue collection and publishing the empire 's accounts had won Reitern the respect of financial experts , but had not done much to earn him the applause of the community at large . |
| 17 | Even the advent of the university had not done much to increase his sales , she considered shrewdly , since she could not recall seeing a single bookshelf in any of the homes of university staff which she had visited . |
| 18 | He did not look as if he had ever had much to lend . |
| 19 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 20 | It did not solve his problem but the poor fellow had to make out his report and he had to find some element of evidence and so far he had n't got much to write down . |
| 21 | It had n't taken much to disturb the woman-of-the-world pose . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never had much to do with village life , but I believe one has to be very careful , ’ she explained ; ‘ and we do n't want to set the place by the ears the moment we 've arrived . |
| 23 | He was only a couple of years older than Jack but he was huge — almost as wide as he was tall — and although Jack had never had much to do with him he knew he was reputed to be a bully . |
| 24 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 25 | Pop and I had never had much to do with a soldiers ' club-except for that brief time in Maymyo , which was more of a hospital than a club , but now we had to feed and house soldiers on leave , poor men who were tired and bored and away from their families . |
| 26 | In 1967 the owner of the Manor , Miss Dorothy Higgins , gifted it to the Alford Civic Trust who have since done much to restore it after years of neglect . |
| 27 | The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers have already achieved much to improve the site 's appeal . |
| 28 | By the same token , though , the new acts have not done much to bridge the gap between pop and country , either . |
| 29 | So far the authorities have not done much to stamp out this ever increasing malaise . |
| 30 | These groups have no reason to feel that the white male-dominated unions have ever done much to serve their interests . |