Example sentences of "much [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 2 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 3 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 4 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |
| 5 | Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it over the analogue alternative , and the move away from analogue systems is n't restricted to the mobile networks . |
| 6 | Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 8 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |
| 9 | The shroud thrown over the subordination of women in the mining communities has much to tell us about the myth of the " archetypical proletarians ' . |
| 10 | It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it . |
| 11 | He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival . |