Example sentences of "much [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | While Colonel Sanders 's fried poultry has n't done much for the state 's image and few of us get to attend the Kentucky Derby , America 's leading spirit is becoming increasingly fashionable in Britain . |
| 2 | The trucks are also responsible for much for the country 's nitrogen oxide pollution . |
| 3 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 4 | The resonance of this fine building did not do much for the choir 's inaccurate diction , but made amends by enriching the gracious stone quality of the singing in Haydn 's Little Organ Mass and Faure 's Requiem . |
| 5 | He justified the appeal by claiming that the smugglers had done much for the town 's " smugglers cove " image and that the town would benefit from the resultant increase in tourist trade . |
| 6 | Ca n't say much for the mother 's coffee though . |
| 7 | He felt that his experience in the film Hello , Dolly ! had given him the confidence to do Billy , and he remained grateful to Gene Kelly , who had helped him so much during the picture 's making . |
| 8 | You can begin to find this out by using an ANNALS , which functions as a short-cut summary of historical facts if you do not know much about a text 's historical background . |
| 9 | Aye well of course at that time , in nineteen forty eight , I was detached I mean I I did n't know much about the management 's thinking , or their pronouncements . |
| 10 | I 've been at him too much about the clan 's honour . |
| 11 | If pub owners were prepared to emphasise the interest of genuine historic features , regardless of period , then this type of fakery , which disappoints or sadly deceives the customer in search of the traditional pub and irreparably removes much of a building 's interest for future generations , could be avoided . |
| 12 | Much of a dolphin 's life revolves around finding and eating food , and it has evolved a highly developed jaw and sonar system to serve its feeding requirements . |
| 13 | Because much of a dolphin 's life is spent beyond the range of human observation , such basic characteristics as reproductive rates and life expectancy are much harder to measure than with birds and land mammals . |
| 14 | Witness could not say how much of a man 's time this might occupy per day . |
| 15 | Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) show that much of a child 's experience of language in the classroom , in terms of teacher-pupil exchanges , is marked by a pattern of Initiation — Response — Feedback . |
| 16 | Most of what is known about social development is based on the study of encounters between a child and one other person , yet much of a child 's life takes place in groups of more than two persons — within the family , the neighbourhood peer groups , the pre-school group , and so on . |
| 17 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 18 | It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still |
| 19 | In the future much of a computer 's Supervisor may be in microcode : see for example the microprogrammed operating system functions on the experimental VENUS System ( Liskov 1972 ) . |
| 20 | Further , he claims , much of a lawyer 's competence comes from general rather than specifically legal knowledge , and from his interpersonal skills . |
| 21 | ‘ Parents control so much of a 14-year-old 's life , the computer gives the child the opportunity to take control for himself . ’ |
| 22 | It is even plausible to suppose that having to depend excessively on prediction from prior context may take up so much of a reader 's cognitive resources that more wide-ranging comprehension is blocked ( Stanovich , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | I explained to them that when you begin to acquire so much of a nation 's wealth , then you can not escape attention . |
| 24 | He always forgets that , with the Inland Revenue , we are considering how much of a citizen 's money should be handed over to the state , whereas in matters relating to benefits we are considering how the taxpayer 's money is handed out on our behalf . |
| 25 | She points out that much of a woman 's life is based on a spontaneity of moral response that many philosophers , in particular Hegel and Kant , would say had no moral worth ( McMillan , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Even when all students were required to read for a degree and the certificate course was phased out , the debate — how much of a teacher 's training should be practical and school based , how much purely academic — continued . |
| 27 | Much of a manager 's use of statistics is to demonstrate to others that there is a definite pattern and hence an important message inherent in the data . |
| 28 | Much of a manager 's success depends on maintaining a reservoir of goodwill , on minimizing a reliance on authority and unilateral decisions . |
| 29 | Planning and plans occupy much of a manager 's time at any level in the company , with important consequences . |
| 30 | Enforcement agents , accordingly , organize intelligence systems to circumvent these problems ; in fact much of an officer 's time is devoted to the discovery of pollution . |