Example sentences of "much [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No she 'd do too much damage to a tent as well |
| 2 | ’ Would we be thrown out if we gave too much exposure to a rebel like Harrison , or if we showed the true extent of the logging ? |
| 3 | LADY DAVERS : God give me patience , so much tenderness to a vile … |
| 4 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 5 | I 'll not leave that much money for a drunken old seaman — him dead , too ! |
| 6 | How can we spend that much money on a ground that is nt ours ? ? ? |
| 7 | Commissioners were sent to collect a ‘ fine ’ from each parish totalling £600 ; much money from a poor County . |
| 8 | The lack of apparent activity in the factory was startling at first , but not when you remember that Caterham makes as much money in a year as General Motors does in half an hour . |
| 9 | On the other hand they are criticised for making so much money in a world that pampers them , and for covering themselves in sponsors ' deals to the point that the locker-room at the Players ' Championship sometimes seems like Gasoline Alley at the Indy 500 . |
| 10 | There has been much conjecture about a lack of motivation at lower levels in the Iraqi formations , as contrasted with that displayed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards , or Pasdaran , whose commitment and capacity to hold out against Iraqi superiority in equipment were important features of the war 's early years . |
| 11 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
| 12 | Abortion decisions and practices were very much part of a female culture and to some extent must be considered apart from , rather than as an alternative to , other methods of birth control . |
| 13 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 14 | He said the units were very much part of a hospital 's working environment , usually to care for patients coming out of operating theatres after major operations . |
| 15 | He said the units were very much part of a hospital 's working environment , usually to care for patients coming out of operating theatres after major operations . |
| 16 | Not much hope of a job , not much chance of a million young people who are trying to find cash or work , a waste of skills , a whole generation . |
| 17 | But these are women who have not very much experience of a particular current within British feminism which sees men very much as the enemy , though they went through a tremendous process of political change during the strike and with the development of their organisation , many marriages , for example , split up and the women gained a whole new identity of themselves as individual women . |
| 18 | As a consequence , there is either a tendency to overcompensate and carry out too much fact-finding in a rather loose fashion , or to simply focus on specific information processes with a view to introducing new technology . |
| 19 | not even go into it , because what happens is they 're allowed so much funding in a year and if the budget runs out half way through , that 's every body out of work . |
| 20 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 21 | You wo n't see much change from a $50 bill or a hard-earned 25 but if you are remotely interested in the subject it 's an excellent investment . |
| 22 | There 's little hope of much change from a fiver once you 've splashed out on a basic box of 12 . |
| 23 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 24 | I have met knitters with bad backs , frozen shoulders , tennis elbows and so on from doing to much knitting at a time . |
| 25 | Christian 's a fine man , but I can only take so much religion in a week . |
| 26 | Her doctor told Swindon Crown Court that Mrs Fribbens was registered blind and suffered frequent bouts of confusion , and Judge John McNaught said it was important not to attach too much weight to a statement she gave to the police . |
| 27 | ‘ I think that I have n't played a Test for England because I 've carried too much weight for a long time , ’ Carrick said . |
| 28 | Older people need stronger lighting — a 60-year-old needs , on average , twice as much light as a 30-year-old to read by — so buy an appropriately powerful light . |
| 29 | Fluorescent tubes give about three times as much light as a tungsten or incandescent ( normal everyday ) bulb . |
| 30 | To remove such a sacred mound would cause much distress to a great number of people . |