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

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1 It supplies much information which even the specialized dictionaries of technical and scientific subjects do not provide .
2 We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ .
3 Nor does it make much sense for the book to be on offer soon afterwards through a paperback book club that screams at it potential customers , ‘ You write the rules ’ .
4 And would it make much difference if the pact only covered a limited number of seats ?
5 W would it make much difference for you lending me the money .
6 W would it make much difference for you lending me the money .
7 But this is still a reading of great insight which I shall often return to , for it offers much food for thought .
8 There are miles of computer imagery in 2010 to fill the video screens on the Leonov , then taken for granted , though it involved much work and Sony technology .
9 These elements are common in minerals and Jones ' notes of that day mention aluminium , nickel , lithium , platinum and , significantly , palladium ‘ because it dissolves much hydrogen' .
10 The depth of flavour results from the warm climate , which ensures all the grapes are ripe , sweet and juicy when picked ; the wine is oak aged , during which time it develops much complexity .
11 It covers much ground in 100 pages and 100 references and does so clearly .
12 The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies .
13 This is not a work of criticism though it contains much criticism along the way , and of the first order — for instance , Pound 's respectful demurrer from the high valuation that Eliot had put on Johnson 's Vanity of Human Wishes .
14 It contains much taildragger lore that is useful for any pilot , a wealth of good advice to tailwheel instructors , and the most comprehensive explanation of P-factor that I have seen .
15 Although it contains much information that is very valuable for academic research on a wide variety of topics ( the family , poverty , the elderly , housing conditions and so on ) in the form in which OPCS release it , the data are not easy for university researchers to use .
16 Nor does it carry much information about the clouds to Earth because the clouds fail to impress on this radiation many meaningful signatures .
17 Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation .
18 Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing .
19 Writing an Introduction As we have said , it takes much practice to be able to write essays well .
20 It takes much cranking of the engine with the starter motor to get going again — although the time it takes to fire up does vary .
21 It takes much time .
22 It takes much time and effort to find recorded music that is suitable as movement accompaniment .
23 The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s .
24 It required much experimentation to determine the properties of air , mercury , alcohol and other thermometric substances , as well as devising methods for constructing and calibrating instruments .
25 The CIA-backed contra war was an inconsequential affair in world terms , although it brought much destruction and suffering to the Nicaraguans themselves .
26 Terence Hawkes 's Structuralism and Semiotics appeared in 1977 as a timely primer on la nouvelle critique and it presents much information in a readable form .
27 It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph .
28 It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity .
29 But it is hard to see it making much headway against the ideology that now pervades academic institutions .
30 At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions .
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