Example sentences of "for much [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come the following Sunday , therefore , I returned to the site alone and noticed that my friends had indeed given the field a careful search , for much of the soil was flattened by footprints . |
| 2 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , which blames leaching from the sites for much of the pollution of waterways , commented that meeting statutory requirements on water quality would now be " much more difficult " . |
| 3 | The cover , showing the mill which is the setting for much of the story , was designed by Hardy . |
| 4 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 5 | The last of these was ironic , not to say cynical , for much of the manpower used in the building of the Valle de los Caídos had been provided by political prisoners , who were allowed to redeem part of their sentences in what was , effectively , a labour camp . |
| 6 | But in a minority ‘ access to resources was unsatisfactory : apparatus was hidden in cupboards , stored haphazardly , scattered , or kept in rooms used for other purposes for much of the day ’ . |
| 7 | He was also back to the daily pile of paperwork and would be closeted with secretaries for much of the day . |
| 8 | Even where direct sunlight is received for much of the day , its heating effect is severely restricted by high winds and high humidity ( Green & Harding 1983 ) . |
| 9 | For the hemiplegic patient , it requires extra care , because the patient is likely to be sitting still for much of the day , which in itself may make him more prone to infections , and the risk is magnified if there is any damp or dirty material next to his skin . |
| 10 | For example , for much of the day we need to be able to repress or split off some feelings to enable us to concentrate or to use our intellects . |
| 11 | With CityLink X70 , there are frequent departures daily from Oxford to Heathrow — every half hour for much of the day . |
| 12 | Moving away from the house there is little point in a large patio as this area will be in shade for much of the day . |
| 13 | To protect the scene , the park was closed off to the public for much of the day but has since been re-opened . |
| 14 | Mr Ashraf 's family have been at his hospital bedside for much of the day . |
| 15 | Payne , Whitson and Varga are believed to have been responsible for much of the consortium 's recent sales of its catalogue and anti-NT white paper , a source of revenue . |
| 16 | North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field . |
| 17 | The ascent of Whernside from the north has two advantages over other routes : first , for much of the journey the lovely valley of Dentdale remains in sight to counter the increasing harshness of the terrain and , secondly , an alternative route of return is available . |
| 18 | The track which you follow from the village of Gavarnie to the cirque is necessarily a good , well-worn one , almost a road for much of the journey , through beech woods and then across open grasslands , before the last rough and rocky stretch up into the mouth of the cirque . |
| 19 | Team manager Noel Murphy faces the press flanked by captain Phil Danaher ( left ) , who was ruled out for much of the tour by a knee injury , and coach Ciaran Fitzgerald . |
| 20 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 21 | He did n't add that he was responsible for much of the terrorist acts , and that he would ensure they continued . |
| 22 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 23 | His comments ring true for much of the music now emerging in the wake of the Eighties rare groove scene — music that stretches from hip hop grooves to hard drum and bass soul . |
| 24 | Indeed , a striking feature of post-war economic growth has been the increasing importance of techniques of persuasion : only by stimulating wants and keeping consumers in a state of dissatisfaction is it possible to secure high levels of demand for much of the output of modern industrial economies . |
| 25 | Many business people are away from their office base for much of the working day , especially those involved in sales and marketing . |
| 26 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
| 27 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 28 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 29 | Travelling strongly for much of the way , Ballystate had just moved ahead when belting the final flight . |
| 30 | As the legislative attitude to prostitution indicates , there was an underlying implicit acceptance of the double standard for much of the century , and a tacit assumption that the function of the machinery of the state , local and national , was to regulate the public sphere and not the private . |