Example sentences of "much at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey do n't have much at the back or up front but in the middle of the park they are very comfortable with the ball and if England negate them there it will be enough to win . |
| 2 | The BBC said : ‘ Vic and Bob 's inimitable brand of humour is very much at the cutting edge of contemporary comedy and I am delighted to welcome two such original talents to BBC 2 . ’ |
| 3 | In the fourteenth century Prague was very much at the centre of European affairs . |
| 4 | The ‘ Plan for Coal ’ of 1974 , very much at the centre of the case put forward by the NUM , was intended to produce over 40 million tonnes of new and modernised capacity to meet the expected increase in demand and to offset the exhaustion of old capacity . |
| 5 | Though irreconcilable , these differences are none the less very much at the centre of philosophy 's concern with the possibilities or ‘ knowing ’ . |
| 6 | Very much at the centre of it is the CPSU CC 's Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers ' Parties of Socialist Countries , founded in 1957 , and headed by Yuriy Andropov from that date until his appointment to head the KGB in 1967 . |
| 7 | You feel very much at the centre of things , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Below that level , colleagues , thirdly , and you may be less interested in this , erm , but the , because this is very much at the level of , of officers , at least from the statutory bodies . |
| 9 | They have meant that women are no longer quite so much at the mercy of their biology and may engage in sexual intercourse free from the worry of unwanted pregnancy . |
| 10 | Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges . |
| 11 | With such a small group we are very much at the mercy of the various other events in people 's lives and all of us have distractions over the summer . |
| 12 | Restaurants she did n't mind , but in pubs she always felt too much at the mercy of predatory men . |
| 13 | Moreover if these covenants were given full force , they would tend to reduce his freedom to seek better conditions even by asking for a rise in wages ; because if he is not allowed to get work elsewhere he is very much at the mercy of his employer . |
| 14 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 15 | I mean tha , is it all , you know , do we need all the time to have erm extra administrative help and in in , and in terms of which we 've been talking about before , I know they might sound like two conflicting issues but one of the ways of ensuring we get the work done is do we trying too much at the Synod ? |
| 16 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 17 | But as I said in a speech recently , we have a lot further to go , more progress to make and that is very much at the top of my agenda of , the agenda of my right honourable friend the education minister . |
| 18 | Her view that we should encourage schools to take up tennis is one that is very much at the heart of our philosophy . |
| 19 | This approach was very much at the heart of Labour 's 1983 election manifesto . |
| 20 | Church planting is , I sense , so much at the heart of God for this country at this moment . |
| 21 | Concerns with the ‘ public ’ and the ‘ private ’ are very much at the heart of Anita Ronke 's sculpture/installation work . |
| 22 | Better maintenance of the border is a central factor in our policy and it is very much at the heart of the arrangements and agreement that we have with the Irish Government . |
| 23 | While the bishops were very much at the heart of Innocent 's system of church government there were papal expedients that Innocent used quite extensively that minimized their power . |
| 24 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 25 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
| 26 | Human-rights groups said as much at the time , but General Benny Murdani , then head of the armed forces , claimed that the killings were the result of gang feuds . |
| 27 | He was n't anything much at the time . |
| 28 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 29 | I 've certainly felt that again and again , not so much at the inadequacy of the politicians , as at my own inadequacy . |
| 30 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |