Example sentences of "make much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his life Petipa made much more use of demi-caractère elements in his work and strengthened the characteristics of the steps he used . |
| 2 | They made much of the participation of so-called ‘ community leaders ’ in the raid , and of the ‘ accountability ’ that they demonstrated through the involvement of hand-picked representatives of the media . |
| 3 | The discussion of the gentile constitution and of the confederacy are however , intended by Marx and Engels as a preliminary to their theory of the origin of the State , and for this again they made much use of Morgan 's work . |
| 4 | The local television station made much of the rivalry between these two , but , in the event , Prost never got close enough to even suggest the onset of further controversy . |
| 5 | Only Rangers and Celtic made much money — hence the original meaning of The term ‘ The Old firm ’ — and Celtic was pledged To donate to Catholic charities . |
| 6 | And a friend in Scotland swears that he once heard a sermon preached on the wonders of creation in which the minister made much of the sanctity of the earthworm and even speculated on whether every earthworm is an individual . |
| 7 | The South-West forwards tried to play a similar mauling game , but with Teague far short of his true form they seldom made much headway and only occasionally produced clean possession for Hill . |
| 8 | In his discussions with Mr Kaifu this week , Mr Delors made much of the ‘ spirit of reciprocity ’ and the need for ‘ fairness and balance ’ between Japan and the Community . |
| 9 | Women 's world could therefore be seen as inferior to the higher cultural activities of men in the public domain — a fact recognized by the first century AD Jewish philosopher Philo who in his writings made much play of this gender-differentiated opposition between the public and private domains . |
| 10 | Especially since the demise of Vanguard and the simplification of the inter-unionist competition , the DUP has stressed its own reliability ( ‘ for trustworthy leadership , vote DUP ’ ) and made much play of divisions within the Official Unionists and the continued presence in the Unionist Party of some people who were tainted by O'Neillism and power-sharing . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that he made much money , but he had an activity and his shop was a meeting-place for other young men who dropped in to discuss the events of the day and to plan entertainments and visits for the evening . |
| 12 | Later I even appealed to the Member of Parliament for South Edinburgh , then the redoubtable Sir Will Y. Darling , who always made much of his rôle as an old soldier , to use his position to find out what he could ; but he could find nothing . |
| 13 | Yet by the eighteenth century , polite culture made much of personal cleanliness . |
| 14 | The industry made much play of the fact that the flask survived virtually unscathed . |
| 15 | Mr George Carman QC , in his final speech for the defence , made much of this ; ‘ The plain fact , when you come to the evidence , is that this melancholy prosecution is now in a state of retreat and disarray . ’ |
| 16 | For centuries , Cirencester was an important wool centre and made much of its living from wool stapling and sorting , as well as cloth production . |
| 17 | She never tried to escape from their constant supervision , avoided both Lachlan and Farquhar like lepers , took sly slaps and pinches in silence , made much of loving her son , and could , they discovered , tell a story to make a corpse laugh . |
| 18 | As part of their case , the Church made much of the fact that there had been no objection to demolition from within the village . |
| 19 | The press made much of his brother Geoffrey 's Chairmanship of the Tramway Museum Society , which operated vintage trams at its Museum in Derbyshire . |
| 20 | ( In this respect , Village differs markedly from some other Scottish communities included in this study , where informants made much more mention of the possible demographic and economic effects of school closure . ) |
| 21 | We all made much of the coincidence , though not as much as the police , for whom it amounts to damning evidence of collusion , malice aforethought , cold-blooded premeditation and goodness knows what else . |
| 22 | Commentators on the Eighties alternative comedy scene made much of the politicisation of British comedy . |
| 23 | Deng Xiaoping made much of this , comparing western-style democracy unfavourably to Chinese socialist democracy . |
| 24 | War was declared in August 1914 but it was not until the following year that it made much of an impression on the affairs of the Union . |
| 25 | While the whole theological context of that chapter was important , we may note here especially the stress on the priesthood of all the faithful — a theme that Luther made much of , but which Catholic tradition had downgraded ever since . |
| 26 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 27 | The criminal acts themselves contribute nothing to this process since they do not exist as criminal acts unless they have been defined as such by official defining and sanctioning agencies ( a point made much of by interactionist writers , including Erikson ) . |
| 28 | The case received enormous coverage and the popular press made much use of the opportunity to reveal the titillating detail from the court interaction . |
| 29 | Unionist MPs made much capital from the embarrassment of Liberals who had to vote the Bill down and from the ineffectiveness of John Burns , one of the weakest of the Liberal ministers . |
| 30 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |