Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] much [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is undoubtedly the most tiring skill to learn since it involves so much swimming .
2 WAD general secretary Margaret Williams , said : ‘ At present , a lot of disabled people are unable to go to Grange Road because it involves too much walking .
3 It involves , it involves too much work , that 's why she ca n't do them like you .
4 It became too much trouble sometimes even to go to the Camp Cinema .
5 It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity .
6 I would n't believe it made that much difference do you ?
7 Why , then , has it given so much trouble to so many ?
8 Form an equation and solve it to find how much Gregory had at first .
9 It covers as much ground as must be possible within the covers of a manageable book .
10 Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years .
11 It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages .
12 But it has so much scope to go further .
13 It has so much detail from which to draw inspiration and enthusiasts around Britain should find a place on their shelves for it .
14 It has so much atmosphere that one can almost see the medieval wool merchants going about their business .
15 I 'm not very happy about this diet — for one thing , I think it contains too much protein .
16 We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused .
17 Local people should be encouraged to obtain a copy of the guide , said Mr Davies , as it contains so much information about Mid Wales and its attractions .
18 Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble .
19 For these people use of the steel-jawed leghold trap by commercial trappers is wrong because it causes too much pain , whereas other , ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping would be permissible because the pain they cause , though real enough , is not excessive .
20 The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency .
21 I 've no idea it depends how much water they use .
22 It depends how much information you give .
23 It caused so much pressure inside the home that I 'm not surprised Denise has had enough .
24 It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out .
25 But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it .
26 In this it was perhaps too successful , for it provoked so much hostility from the car lobby that reprinting of the book ceased some two years after it was first published .
27 Example four , you notice it says how much cover would you , and that 's you as an individual , knowing whether you smoke or not , obviously knowing your age , get if you spend thirty pounds a month with an escalating premium , and waiver of premium ?
28 Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage .
29 But if it becomes too long there is a danger that the listener will forget the original theme , concentrating on the third sentence because it assumes too much importance .
30 It bears so much fruit that it can still supply the appetites of 50 children and a large population of garden birds .
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