Example sentences of "much [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got far too much for a girl of your age — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ As I was saying , you 've got far too much for a girl of your age . |
| 4 | But he has failed in his great ambition , and perhaps the task was too much for a man who has had to spend time inventing a new identity for himself . |
| 5 | Neither the size of the shift , nor the sums saved , amount to much for a government with $1.5 trillion of privately held marketable debt . |
| 6 | And then , you can always take out the extra insurance with er , no but it is n't very much for a tumble-drier , for five years and there 's no problems that way . |
| 7 | Justin was convinced that in the highminded Stoic ethics of human brotherhood , and especially in the other-worldly Platonic metaphysics , there was much for a Christian to welcome . |
| 8 | I say no I think I 've got a how er how much for a labourer . |
| 9 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |
| 10 | ‘ His project is too much for a town of 1,500 people . |
| 11 | Er er the principle was that erm th the birth of a child is , it is painful but it 's not a pain too much for a mother to bear , that was the , the id the principle that they went on . |
| 12 | It was as if , the weeks of turmoil and uncertainty that followed his father 's death having turned into months , the tumultuous turn of events had proved too much for a youth of his years . |
| 13 | ‘ So much for a career as a burglar , though I can understand why it might appeal . ’ |
| 14 | Banks which have expanded through acquisitions , notably Banc One and NationsBank , have developed models for measuring intangible values in order to avoid paying too much for a target . |
| 15 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 16 | It 's a pity you ca n't manage the return trip by yourself , but it would be too much for a woman alone . |
| 17 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 18 | This means much for an institution like the National Gallery which , despite federal funding , still lags far behind the Getty and Kimbell in purchasing power . |
| 19 | That coterie would also act , as they did for the 1991 event , very much as a think tank . |
| 20 | Over time , concessions have been made to incontinence , lack of mobility and degrees of mental frailty , but these have happened due to lack of resources elsewhere , as much as a response to carefully assessed needs of elderly people and their carers within clear objectives for residential care . |
| 21 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 22 | I like to think I have n't changed much as a person . |
| 23 | We 're marketing this very much as a spreadsheet , because it wo n't be difficult to use . |
| 24 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 25 | One ends up pretty much as a signature on cheques . ’ |
| 26 | Right , they do n't change much as a result of the degrees of freedom er adjustment okay with er squared distribution yes , sort of different distribution but we interpret the tables in exactly the same way so if you just have a look on your screen erm , there 's an L M version of the serial correlation test , right , and that has a squared distribution one right and the test statistic we obtain on your screens is calculated in two point eight eight , no two point zero eight . |
| 27 | Penn and Venables pulled their forces together and , very much as a consolation prize , captured the island of Jamaica . |
| 28 | ‘ In any event , he was near fifteen by then , and looked on Sir John very much as a father . |
| 29 | He is deeply insecure and does n't expect love , never having received it before , yet he deals with Miranda 's death so matter-of-factly , hardly seeming upset at all , that he ca n't have cared for her very much as an individual , which is not surprising as he really does n't know her at all well . |
| 30 | Although they are somewhat late in entering the bids scenario , I believe we should not rule them out since having talked to my partner in Italy , he regards them very much as an niche buyer . |