Example sentences of "[adv] much [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 2 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 3 | True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual . |
| 4 | True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual . |
| 5 | ‘ My weak spots are my right knee and lower back , but I wo n't let on much because I like to make out I am indestructible . ’ |
| 6 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 7 | The issue is not so much whether or how far the sense of grievance or of legitimate right can be justified objectively but rather its potency as a force in the equation , just as an unwavering Jewish belief in the right to all Eretz Israel has proved indispensable to the achievements of Zionism . |
| 8 | * What is of importance here is not so much whether or not the label ‘ perceptual ’ is appropriate as whether this task is susceptible to the effects of pre-training in the same way as the motor tasks discussed earlier . |
| 9 | The problem is not so much whether you can or ca n't but rather whether you want to . |
| 10 | I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves . |
| 11 | The important question , though , is not so much whether such features are or are not objectively present , but what significance and function one should assign to them if they are . |
| 12 | ‘ Why should it matter to you so much whether he sells or not ? |
| 13 | You do n't enjoy things so much when you get older . ’ |
| 14 | You loved him so much when you were a little girl . |
| 15 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 16 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |
| 17 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope that remark does n't imply that you would n't care so much if she was a nasty person . |
| 19 | And not been in much since she came back . |
| 20 | He was internationally minded ; he believed in concord between nations , and so ardently that he did not question over much whether concord between nations actually existed . ’ |
| 21 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 22 | Not much if you were married with a family . |
| 23 | The dangled prospect of £30,000 is not much if one is trapped in the dole queue in an area where employment prospects are practically nil . |
| 24 | You get lots of air low down , and not much when you go up . ’ |
| 25 | A little broom has been planted , but not much because it is a fire hazard . |
| 26 | That was some comfort , but not much because the Trunchbull was totally unpredictable . |
| 27 | I swung the club again and the ball shot off much as one had always imagined bats flee hell . |
| 28 | Gradually , such considerations took a back seat as the day to day business of the college continued , with the interviewing of applicants to courses , the organising of new classes etc , and the new session started off much as before . |
| 29 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 30 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |