Example sentences of "much [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so much for the platform speakers , who have arrived , but for some of the floor speakers , who have n't and would like to . |
| 2 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment may have helped the Socialists somewhat but can not have done much for the Communists . |
| 3 | I ca n't say much for the rest of the paper . ’ |
| 4 | Essential to this is making the measurement and reporting of performance against plan meaningful — and that goes as much for the board as the managers . |
| 5 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |
| 6 | Although this is convenient for busy human owners , it is too much for the cat to eat at once , unless it is starving — which is rarely the case with well-loved family pets . |
| 7 | Is there anything much for the agenda for a week on Tuesday ? |
| 8 | The work of the court was too much for the judges ; and this cause of delay was aggravated by the dilatory character of the procedure , and by the time which some of the Chancellors took to consider their decisions . |
| 9 | While Colonel Sanders 's fried poultry has n't done much for the state 's image and few of us get to attend the Kentucky Derby , America 's leading spirit is becoming increasingly fashionable in Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ So much for the bliss of rural life , ’ snapped the superintendent , as she slumped back into her seat , her nose wrinkling . |
| 11 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 12 | The 1944 Act changed much for the school , but not everything and not all at once . |
| 13 | So that 's tutor time at Kidminster Green ; so much for the school prospectus eh ? |
| 14 | It says much for the resilience of the club , however , that for most of this period a healthy League position was held ( lowest finishing place was fourteenth in 1966 ) and Chapman would be proud to know that , nearly fifty years after his death , Arsenal are the longest surviving member of the First Division . |
| 15 | It is very much for the providers to determine the future picture . |
| 16 | Nor is the sale of BR 's divisions likely to raise much for the Treasury . |
| 17 | The pace of Fowler was too much for the home side and three goals late in the game was just reward for some clinical finishing . |
| 18 | The trucks are also responsible for much for the country 's nitrogen oxide pollution . |
| 19 | The ladies ' K4 was significant not so much for the Germans and Hungarians in the first two places but for the Chinese who took the bronze , their first ever World medal . |
| 20 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 21 | That they are included is as much for the protection of the member States themselves , who will be responsible for the budget of the organisation and need its field of operations to be defined , as for non-members who need to know the extent of the organisation 's powers . |
| 22 | It 's costing me twice as much for the call |
| 23 | It then moved to being paid so much per week , for an trainee , and we now have a mixture of such much a week , and so much for the output related fundings , the jobs , the N V Q's , the F E courses which I mentioned earlier . |
| 24 | It was not appropriate for the son to care for her but it became too much for the daughter-in-law , who was admitted to psychiatric hospital with a nervous breakdown , and the problems were referred to the local area social service office . |
| 25 | The results of the test are instructive , but as much for the complications they reveal as for any neat conclusion . |
| 26 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandmother lived next door remembers how the old lady ‘ used to pass one or two little bits and pieces over to us , but she used to say to mother , ‘ I ca n't do much for the grandchildren because we have no pension at the end . ’ |
| 27 | So what , when you 're paying that much for the hi-fi you do n't expect sound quality you 'll get from a tape to tape , it 's thought , the sound quality is so crap you might as well just do it on a shit thing |
| 28 | The threat of a maddened Myeloski was too much for the controller . |
| 29 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 30 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |