Example sentences of "much [vb pp] by the " 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 | There is yet another , rather unorthodox method of assessing frame size that is much favoured by the overweight . |
| 5 | This vision of Orcadian self-help was much favoured by the more conservative bureaucratic direction whilst being apprehensive that the policy might discourage private home ownership and lead to more council houses being built locally . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So there I was at the Whirl-Y-Gig , which is a New Age club much favoured by the Haight-Ashbury set . |
| 8 | This change would also break the ITV companies ' monopoly over advertising revenue ( a change much favoured by the Peacock Committee and advertisers , amongst others ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The firm 's T613 limousines , much favoured by the old communist politburo members , were subsidised by truck sales . |
| 11 | Silence itself is a form of communication , and the many ways in which human beings can send ‘ messages ’ by way of gesture , facial expressions , and non-linguistic sounds ( the deep sigh much favoured by the late British comedian , Tony Hancock , is a good example ) have been well documented . |
| 12 | Further north in America turquoise was much favoured by the later Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico , who obtained some at least of their supplies from mines in San Bernardino County , California . |
| 13 | Voting and its subsequent tabulation is much eased by the use of voting machines . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Forster , who committed suicide , was much hated by the other colonists , who had a hard life trying to farm in the remote swamps plagued by insects . |
| 17 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 18 | Reading and writing lesson — formal but much enjoyed by the children . |
| 19 | Reading and writing lesson — formal but much enjoyed by the children . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The experience was not one much enjoyed by the Labour party , certain sections of which were extremely hostile to the arrangement . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Last , but definitely not least , the Masai were much esteemed by the British for their beautiful manners , especially the dignified courtesy which marked their behaviour towards Europeans . |
| 24 | The intimacy of the Stuart brothers with George III was much disliked by the House of Commons . |
| 25 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 26 | I know that , like a lot of ordinary concert-goers and record collectors , you are not very much impressed by the slimmed-down sound of the present generation of period-instrument performers ; but your performances of the B minor Mass in the 1930s and '40s were regarded as being almost revolutionary , with very buoyant rhythms and slimmed-down textures . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She would have said he was much attracted by the riding , yet he made out he was n't . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These games were and still are much loathed by the majority within the Northern protestant community . |