Example sentences of "much [prep] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Test and County Cricket Board acted only hours after fining Allan Lamb five times as much for exposing Pakistan as ball-gouging cheats . |
| 2 | So I thank you all very much for taking part in this , and I hope you have a happy seminar . |
| 3 | I I do n't I do n't I do n't have any more time , we 're just gon na have to leave it on that very er worrying note , but thanks all very much for taking part . |
| 4 | I am sure that today my tinkering with Dave Doyle and Phil Meek 's positions will prove too much for Dorning Town and the high-flying Twitchit Albion . |
| 5 | ‘ So much for leaving things to those who are the least capable , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Right , thank you all very much for having formulas now . |
| 7 | Will the Leader of the House find time next week to debate the issue covered in today 's editorial in The Birmingham Post entitled ’ So much for Buy British' ’ ? |
| 8 | But he was burned in 1553 not so much for attacking Galen , as for attacking Calvin . |
| 9 | She badly wanted to ask how he knew so much about dressing women , but controlled her curiosity . |
| 10 | it erm we wo n't need to be bothered quite so much about getting paving stones . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you think you know as much about selling flowers as Moll Sutton ? ’ |
| 12 | I think this is not just a problem in Kent , I think that there has been a erm an undue er move in this direction nationally , er for what ever reasons public policy was very much about keeping people out of the courts , er I suspect that this is er er a policy which is of doubtful philosophical underpinning . |
| 13 | Witnessing is as much about showing people Christianity in the way we live as it is about explaining Christianity by the things that we say . |
| 14 | Now I do n't know much about running gags from books previous that I ai n't been in , but it seemed to me that one of them was toting a 7.62 M134 General Electric Minigun , which in my books generally spells schadenfreude . |
| 15 | The deaf community might well attach the label ‘ failure ’ to much of hearing society 's attempts to provide services to meet their needs . |
| 16 | I 've got a horrible feeling tat we 're doing too much of getting people ready to do low skill jobs largely from investment from outside . |
| 17 | Maybe these Indians can only take so much of poling Jesuits upstream and just instinctively snap and turn nasty and shove them overboard . |
| 18 | The enclosed fields which covered and still cover much of say Kent , Norfolk , Shropshire , Devon and Cornwall were equally medieval in origin and function or , as we have already seen , had their beginnings in perhaps prehistoric or Roman times . |
| 19 | In trying to allow for the distinctiveness of the particular historical origins of a text while not abandoning the claims for larger historical consequences , New Historicism may veer too much towards seeing history as symbolic . |
| 20 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 21 | They said because Mr Fallon had achieved so much in bringing industry to Darlington it could no longer be treated as a depressed economic area . |
| 22 | In addition the book features Pearce 's personal approach to a variety of media , with the accent very much on preparing colour by hand and pointing artists towards the most suitable manufactured materials in each case . |
| 23 | Experts believe they suffer just as much on harrowing journeys , although nature has invested these animals with the capacity ( once valuable for protection from predators ) for not revealing pain or fear . |
| 24 | The emphasis , however , is very much on having fun . |
| 25 | The phone was handed over to Erika , who confirmed the trip and then gave the phone to her mother , who exchanged a few banalities and then handed it to Omi , who cooed and clucked and finally returned it to Herr Nordern who said , briefly , that they all looked forward very much to seeing Karl again and firmly replaced the receiver before anyone else could claim it . |
| 26 | At first , there was little scope for anything much beyond licensing agreements . |
| 27 | A realignment of the work of those thousand teachers aimed as much at servicing teachers and schools as at treating individual pupils is a realistic consideration . |
| 28 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 29 | Groups can — and usually do — exist not so much by rejecting outsiders as by accepting insiders . |
| 30 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |