Example sentences of "had [verb] much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game . |
| 2 | It also marked the breaking of a link with the past through the death of Miss Helen Stocks who had done much to promote and sustain the work of the District and the WEA in its early years in Northamptonshire . |
| 3 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 4 | This was in large measure due to their senior commanders ; men like Brigadier Charles Haydon , whose report of February 1941 had done much to shape the commandos from an unwieldy collection of Troops expected to act independently , to a cohesive force of raiders in units suited to their various roles — the SBS for recce , the complete Commando for raids in force . |
| 5 | The agrarian reform had done much to improve the efficiency of agriculture and to ameliorate living standards among the peasantry . |
| 6 | Peter Baxter , producer and cricket-lover who had done much to restore outside sports broadcasting , confessed himself happy . |
| 7 | H. N. Brailsford , whose 1916 book had done much to popularize the idea of the League , spoke for a generation whose hopes had been shattered by the events of the inter-war years when , at the end of 1939 he confided to his ex-wife : |
| 8 | The announcement of rationing had done much to depress their spirits , promising years of deprivation and misery . |
| 9 | ‘ Nevertheless , in our view by then , these weaknesses had done much to undermine the credibility of the system in the eyes of TECs . ’ |
| 10 | Sir Nicholas Hunt of Eurotunnel , writing in Annales des Mines , claimed that the Kent Impact Study had done much to reassure local opinion about the Tunnel and that the doubters were now in a minority . |
| 11 | The three principal figures in his demonology proved to be the Shah , Israel and the United States , and in a sermon against this trio in March 1963 he had done much to trigger the disturbances of that summer and the process that led to his banishment to Najaf in Iraq . |
| 12 | They were at once joined by the Bretons rising in rebellion against the King who had done much to limit their independence . |
| 13 | And , Father , be it admitted , he had done much to raise up enemies to himself in this house . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Liberal ’ protestantism had done much to recreate an accepted image of the ‘ historical ’ Jesus , even if its theological validity was soon to be exploded . |
| 15 | He felt , somehow , as though he was deserting ; and he had grown much to admire the older man . |
| 16 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 17 | As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards . |