Example sentences of "much [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is almost despotic power for the central government and this is as much resented by the colonials as by the natives themselves . ’ |
| 2 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |
| 3 | On visiting the Landes Park flock , much publicised by the Tesco supermarket advertisements featuring Dudley Moore , David Whiting , on behalf of CIWF , commented that he had never seen chickens kept in better conditions . |
| 4 | This change would also break the ITV companies ' monopoly over advertising revenue ( a change much favoured by the Peacock Committee and advertisers , amongst others ) . |
| 5 | Nell wears those large white Peter Pan collars much favoured by the wives of men involved in sex scandals , when they get photographed on their way to church the Sunday after the story breaks . |
| 6 | They were much favoured by the French ( hence the name ) , who developed and raised them to prominence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , until the introduction of the Chinese wonders . |
| 7 | So there I was at the Whirl-Y-Gig , which is a New Age club much favoured by the Haight-Ashbury set . |
| 8 | Voting and its subsequent tabulation is much eased by the use of voting machines . |
| 9 | In contrast to some other material , my essay ‘ The Claims of Basic English ’ , to which I had referred in my letter of 18 July 1944 , had reached him ; and I was much cheered by the fact that he expressed unqualified approval for it . |
| 10 | ITS attendance badly affected by the recession , the Liquid Luncheon Club was much cheered by the letter delivery across the bar of the Red Lion of a Leap Year proposal to the still slightly eligible Jimmy Whelan , a former Mayor of Darlington . |
| 11 | Clearly occasions such as this are much enjoyed by the public who attend and are a valuable source of publicity for the organisations taking part . |
| 12 | Reading and writing lesson — formal but much enjoyed by the children . |
| 13 | Reading and writing lesson — formal but much enjoyed by the children . |
| 14 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |
| 15 | The intimacy of the Stuart brothers with George III was much disliked by the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 17 | I am deeply appreciative of the input to BNC which came from your partnership 's head office , and much impressed by the quality of the documentation submitted . |
| 18 | In that case the Court of Appeal was very much attracted by a reductio argument put forward on behalf of the defendant . |
| 19 | She would have said he was much attracted by the riding , yet he made out he was n't . |
| 20 | He was chosen from an advertisement in a superior doggie magazine , much perused by the Barbour wax-coated set , rather in the manner of a mail-order bride . |
| 21 | These games were and still are much loathed by the majority within the Northern protestant community . |
| 22 | And the fact that wine-growing developed markedly on lands much visited by the dukes of Burgundy and Aquitaine is perhaps also suggestive of ducal initiative . |
| 23 | Led the last stretches of the way by a guide using arcane local landmarks , they arrived at Dunvegan Castle in the later afternoon , and Johnson found himself much warmed by the reception . |
| 24 | We were of course much hampered by the lack of weather reports to the west of us , as most of our weather comes from the west and Eire , being neutral in the war , did n't supply us with any reports . |
| 25 | William Macdonald in his " Sketches of Islay " I 850 writes , " Islay had also its wizards and witches , and their charms and amulets were , till of late , very much dreaded by the generality of the people . |
| 26 | William Macdonald in his " Sketches of Islay " I 850 writes , " Islay had also its wizards and witches , and their charms and amulets were , till of late , very much dreaded by the generality of the people . |
| 27 | Refusing to credit that story , he was obviously not much moved by the excitements that flowed from it . |
| 28 | He was proud to be ex officio senior fellow of Eton and was much moved by the visit of King George VI , Queen Elizabeth , and Princess Margaret to the college . |
| 29 | 1791 The Gentlemen of the Parish of Kildaltan represent that the Church is much Injured by the Schools being kept therein and that it would be for the General benifit of the Parish to have a School House Built seperate from the Church … appoint a Committee for fixing the Stance of the School House and getting the same Built . |
| 30 | Raving Red Sam had ridden a motor-bike once , she remembered , a job that had been much admired by the boys . |