Example sentences of "much at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourteenth century Prague was very much at the centre of European affairs . |
| 2 | The ‘ Plan for Coal ’ of 1974 , very much at the centre of the case put forward by the NUM , was intended to produce over 40 million tonnes of new and modernised capacity to meet the expected increase in demand and to offset the exhaustion of old capacity . |
| 3 | Though irreconcilable , these differences are none the less very much at the centre of philosophy 's concern with the possibilities or ‘ knowing ’ . |
| 4 | Very much at the centre of it is the CPSU CC 's Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers ' Parties of Socialist Countries , founded in 1957 , and headed by Yuriy Andropov from that date until his appointment to head the KGB in 1967 . |
| 5 | You feel very much at the centre of things , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Below that level , colleagues , thirdly , and you may be less interested in this , erm , but the , because this is very much at the level of , of officers , at least from the statutory bodies . |
| 7 | They have meant that women are no longer quite so much at the mercy of their biology and may engage in sexual intercourse free from the worry of unwanted pregnancy . |
| 8 | Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges . |
| 9 | With such a small group we are very much at the mercy of the various other events in people 's lives and all of us have distractions over the summer . |
| 10 | Restaurants she did n't mind , but in pubs she always felt too much at the mercy of predatory men . |
| 11 | Moreover if these covenants were given full force , they would tend to reduce his freedom to seek better conditions even by asking for a rise in wages ; because if he is not allowed to get work elsewhere he is very much at the mercy of his employer . |
| 12 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 13 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 14 | But as I said in a speech recently , we have a lot further to go , more progress to make and that is very much at the top of my agenda of , the agenda of my right honourable friend the education minister . |
| 15 | Her view that we should encourage schools to take up tennis is one that is very much at the heart of our philosophy . |
| 16 | This approach was very much at the heart of Labour 's 1983 election manifesto . |
| 17 | Church planting is , I sense , so much at the heart of God for this country at this moment . |
| 18 | Concerns with the ‘ public ’ and the ‘ private ’ are very much at the heart of Anita Ronke 's sculpture/installation work . |
| 19 | Better maintenance of the border is a central factor in our policy and it is very much at the heart of the arrangements and agreement that we have with the Irish Government . |
| 20 | While the bishops were very much at the heart of Innocent 's system of church government there were papal expedients that Innocent used quite extensively that minimized their power . |
| 21 | I 've certainly felt that again and again , not so much at the inadequacy of the politicians , as at my own inadequacy . |
| 22 | In so far as the Interludium is amusing , up to this point and beyond it , the humour is very much at the expense of the clerk . |
| 23 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |
| 24 | Indeed , Gregory almost admitted as much at the end of the Histories when he asked his successors in the bishopric of Tours to preserve his works intact , allowing no alteration to them , except their versification . |
| 25 | Well you 're right yes , it would be this year but I did n't go much at the end of last year did I ? |
| 26 | Erm , but on the other hand we had early season , you know , from Stuart and he seemed to interest in away but I do n't know why he did n't play much at the end of the season . |