Example sentences of "[v-ing] much [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Follow-up of these students shows that they tend to remain in nursing much longer that the younger applicants . |
| 2 | Caught here by Peter Chick on September 11 , despite its age it is faring much better than the much younger , but cocooned , Citation executive jet behind ! |
| 3 | The second round of ‘ Unity ’ talks between the two opposing Unix factions are faring much better than the ill-fated first bout , though actual unity is unlikely to result at least in the short term . |
| 4 | Yeb is n't faring much better . |
| 5 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 6 | Hepzibah was n't eating much either . |
| 7 | Finally , the distinction between health and social care is proving much less clear in practice than in concept , and long running boundary disputes between agencies could erupt unless the problem is considered specifically in joint planning forums . |
| 8 | " Oh , it 's still raining much too hard for that , " said Cowslip , as though there could be no two ways about it . |
| 9 | I think you could play so many tunes on it that not only would we be producing much more efficiently and economically , but people could have a better quality of life too . |
| 10 | All the same she was mortified to discover on returning much later to the apartment that the detested clothes were waiting for her in her room . |
| 11 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 12 | BR indeed continued to change the country 's very geography , Gatwick suddenly becoming much closer to London with its Express every fifteen minutes , places like Peterborough and Swindon now almost as accessible as suburbs only fifteen miles away from Piccadilly . |
| 13 | For example , last year it became evident that terminal responses at peak times were becoming much slower . |
| 14 | The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK , with Victor becoming much better known than the actor who plays him , Richard Wilson . |
| 15 | It is tempting to speculate whether Local Government will only reassert its traditional independence from excessive Central Government control by finding some way of becoming much less reliant on Central Government grants . |
| 16 | Defending the Met against the forces of the politically correct will require a good bit of cunning but at least New York 's politicians are becoming much less hostile towards public funding of the museums . |
| 17 | First , ever since the war governments had willingly taken responsibility for the management of the national economy and by the late 1960s it was clear that this ‘ management ’ was becoming much less successful : inflation and unemployment were emerging as serious problems and the balance of payments position , upon which Wilson laid such stress , was increasingly precarious . |
| 18 | And politically , the young were becoming much more aware , and campaigning . |
| 19 | Sailing is becoming much more popular in the UK and from the USA comes a warning about personal standards of responsibility while enjoying water-related recreation . |
| 20 | However , their low cost ( Notes retails at around £400 , WFWG at £149 ) and ease of implementation make them a viable proposition for the small company , and will probably result in their becoming much more influential in the long term . |
| 21 | ‘ There is a lot of pressure from everyone , and it is becoming much more serious now , ’ she admitted , while fighting back her tears . |
| 22 | During the process of consultation on Mezey , regional officers were therefore becoming much more aware of the issues , the opportunities and the constraints . |
| 23 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 24 | The United States is clearly already becoming much more self-centred . |
| 25 | Looking to the future Mr Fitzpatrick sees the economy starting to pick up and the advertising market becoming much more buoyant in 1993 . |
| 26 | Customers were becoming much more discerning — interested not just in price , but quality of products . |
| 27 | At the same time , the market was becoming much more competitive and international customers , such as Ford , were reducing the number of suppliers . |
| 28 | But , yes , I think that there is a problem with the way men are becoming much too aware of this issue and maybe that 's just |
| 29 | Flocks of 1,000 to 2,000 were recorded at least once in each month in the period , and are now appearing much more frequently . |
| 30 | Large steam plate made wallpaper stripping much faster and easier ; 12ft long steam hose reached up to ceiling |