Example sentences of "much [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so much for the platform speakers , who have arrived , but for some of the floor speakers , who have n't and would like to . |
| 2 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 3 | It was this western part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler was so keen to get his hands on ; not so much for the Pilsener lagers , but for the Skoda machine plants and the iron and coal resources of Western Bohemia . |
| 4 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 5 | The BMW had the power — too much for the traffic conditions if truth were known — but Armstrong knew the side roads better . |
| 6 | Find out as much about the food requirements of your fish before you purchase them in case you can not provide the special diet required . |
| 7 | It is felt that much of the progress students make whilst in college will be lost if they are not able to go on to meet fresh demands in new situations . |
| 8 | Yet within the context of organized literary study , it is true that much of the difficulty students have in making sense of texts comes from a lack of information , or to use the older term , a deficiency in general knowledge . |
| 9 | Much of the weekend sports action though , IS N'T so close to home … |
| 10 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 11 | Here , an ex-governor makes much of the TV programmes he is launching to revitalise the Republican Party ; there , a senator finds himself , quite by chance , eating rubber chicken in both Iowa and New Hampshire . |
| 12 | Much of the way things would happen depends on the sort of girls there were ; if some were more robust and tom-boyish they would probably have explored the island , but would be unlikely to cause damage unnecessarily while exploring , as the boys did . |
| 13 | Since much of the teaching materials used in FE is written ( textbooks , handouts , worksheets ) and examinations have until recently been almost entirely written to time , examples of material are examined and participants work on adapting and writing supplementary materials for use with bilingual students . |
| 14 | It is basically a problem of the misuse of land … particularly in pastoral areas , much of the problem results from the customs , value systems and attitudes of the people concerning grazing lands and livestock , together with the lack of government mechanisms for effective control . |
| 15 | He did n't add that he was responsible for much of the terrorist acts , and that he would ensure they continued . |
| 16 | This has meant that underground aquifers , which supply much of the water requirements of the south-east , have shrunk to the lowest level on record . |
| 17 | As this portrait indicates , Margaret Massingberd was largely responsible for creating much of the garden areas as they still exist today . |
| 18 | After the coup , a military doctor , Col. Dr Tomas Calvo , was put in charge of the hospital , the budget was reduced and unofficially , much of the hospital finances and medicines were transferred to the military services . |
| 19 | There is still a large space where it received a direct hit at the end of the war , destroying much of the city archives . |
| 20 | My own diagnosis — male menopause with too much of the flesh pots — failed most miserably . |
| 21 | Much of the time parents are quite unconscious of their ‘ reinforcing ’ behaviour . |
| 22 | Much of the time pupils will work on sources that have been carefully selected by the teacher . |
| 23 | The Earth and the oceans absorb much of the carbon compounds , much of which combines with calcium and magnesium to become limestone , which holds much of the CO 2 . |
| 24 | She defied much of the casting formulae employed with the ‘ Carry On ’ concept . |
| 25 | Radio signalling made more than a debut , helping toward the achievement of one of the decade 's miracles , not only the survival but with greater expectation of long life of much of the Highland lines and many more . |
| 26 | The fact of its history perhaps explains much of the ambivalence women feel towards it . |
| 27 | In the West Riding woollen manufacture the independent working clothiers had long used the spring shuttle , and as a group who produced much of the food needs of their households were well enough protected from the high food prices of the war years . |
| 28 | Much of the upland moors are given a scale and a softer appearance by the long fingers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stone walls which push up their valley sides . |
| 29 | Much of the pain centres upon the LEA ; a structure which was pivotal and which is rapidly and rather messily ceasing to be so . |
| 30 | Fison 's Horticulture , the largest peat extractor in Britain , points out that much of the lowland areas owned by them , including Thorne Waste and Hatfield Moors , had already been spoilt by extraction , long before they bought the land . |