Example sentences of "to do much [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 2 | Grandparents are sometimes left to do much of the childminding while parents are out at work . |
| 3 | You will be able to do much of the installation with the power on , but turn it off before you make the final connection to the circuit that will supply the lights . |
| 4 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 5 | But , on the whole , he prefers to empower the police , by commission rogatoire to do much of the work on his behalf . |
| 6 | Rather than analyse speech mathematically it is possible to do much of the work electronically . |
| 7 | In order that too great a burden does not shift from bookseller to rep , Penguin , like Faber , has recruited merchandisers to do much of the checking . |
| 8 | There was some glow from the tiny window on the half-landing above and behind him , but not enough to do much for the hallway ; the sliver of light under his door was hard-edged , bright , unmistakeable . |
| 9 | Nigel was , by this time , unable to do much in the way of hulking and heaving , owing to having suffered from the fashionable slipped disc eighteen years earlier , which still had to be watched . |
| 10 | ‘ Eighteen men wo n't be able to do much in the forest , but get torches and search from your camp to the South Lawn road . |