Example sentences of "[to-vb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the subjects he detailed were the attempts of U.S. insurance companies and the { Mediaid } system to pass much of the burden of care onto families ; the great strain placed on family and personal relationships ; hardships in adjusting to residential situations ; and medical difficulties with such things as bladder and bowel management , skin diseases , constant pain , spastic muscle movement , regulating body temperature and resistance to respiratory complications . |
| 2 | If there is ultimately too little information to determine precisely who decided to exclude much of Leapor 's best work from the first volume , it remains very likely that the exclusion was related to the subscription . |
| 3 | In other words , the British have been compelled by financial limitations to concentrate much of their attention on co-operation , on neighbourhood resources , and on the person-to-person aspects of support work , but this is a valuable area to develop . |
| 4 | Apart from the fact that the McCarthy purges of alleged Communists had left a bad scar on the film industry , two other developments were eventually to bear much of the blame for the demise of the glitterama of old Hollywood . |
| 5 | The learned reviewers — and their successors in all ages — might regard this poem as too trivial to bear much discussion , but the fact remains that Stepping Westward is much liked — if one may be allowed to use such a term in criticism . |
| 6 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 7 | It was past midnight , so this was the start of Sunday , and Sundays in Taiwan were not going to bear much resemblance to Sundays in the countries she had known so far . |
| 8 | The dreams cease to bear much relation to reality , but are so important to both men that they can not be awakened from , controlled or stopped , by anything short of death . |
| 9 | Morris 's contribution to this match is unlikely to find much space in Wisden , but he already looks the part . |
| 10 | STEVEN SPIELBERG is too popular with the public to find much favour with critics . |
| 11 | The researchers were unable to find much evidence of change at all , especially in the areas targeted by Sir Roy Griffiths : the involvement of clinicians in resource management and greater sensitivity to the consumer . |
| 12 | It is difficult to find much in common between Christianity and witchcraft . |
| 13 | There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers . |
| 14 | About Miss Mary Anne Thomson — the shadowy Scottish equivalent of Emily Faithfull- it is certainly hard to find much information , but then it is often hard to find much out about women in Scotland , even those who were quite prominent in public life . |
| 15 | It was a long while since she had heard Con laugh like that ; lately , he never seemed to find much to laugh at . |
| 16 | It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France . |
| 17 | Eventually the experience might have to be repeated , in her own defence , but she could not hope to find much more in it than she had found in this first venture . |
| 18 | ‘ I was surprised to find much more wreckage than I expected , ’ said BNFL Sellafield apprentice Paul Rooney . |
| 19 | ‘ John is gone across the Liverpool Plains to the Namoi ’ , wrote Eliza to her mother on 6 December from Yarrundi , ‘ he expects to find much to interest him there . |
| 20 | Consequently , as in all-male groups in modern gelada populations , we would expect to find much less in the way of mutual antagonism and more in the way of sociability and cooperation . |
| 21 | We are unlikely to find much evidence one way or the other just by reading judicial opinions at random , for judges are unlikely to explain why they believe what everyone believes . |
| 22 | There is evidence that the character of demand for labour is changing , and that new investment is essentially capital-intensive and therefore unable to absorb much labour . |
| 23 | BG-BASE may be able to absorb much of this information , but only when that information relates to specific plants . |
| 24 | Where it is ( as in Ferejohn , 1974 ; see also Johnston , 1980 ) , the southern States usually come out as major beneficiaries — because their Senators and Representatives tend to be among the longest-lived politically ; the Midwest States , on the other hand , tend to benefit much less , which is a source of much local concern ( Murphy , 1971 ) . |
| 25 | Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers . |
| 26 | In a straight line , admittedly , the Limited does n't quite set your pulse on fire like an Integrale 16v ; subjectively , the Lancia 's 200bhp two-litre unit seems to provide much more firepower . |
| 27 | ‘ Is our school a good school ? ’ is unlikely to draw many negative responses or to provide much insight into the sources of satisfaction or dissatisfaction . |
| 28 | The process was seen to be too cumbersome and costly to provide much useful guidance to purchasers , who , in any case , preferred to back their own judgement . |
| 29 | The library would seem to provide much that these young people need , if the staff are alerted , are able to give time and informed attention , and are not slow to utilize material usually associated with adult readers . |
| 30 | The most important role of the Pinot Noir is to provide much of the body , flesh and grip of a Champagne cuvée especially in the middle term of maturity . |