Example sentences of "much [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on 5 January , ‘ after much & very painful hesitation ’ , he sent the money back , expressing at the same time ‘ no ordinary feelings of esteem and affection ’ for his benefactors . |
| 2 | Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power . |
| 3 | What these are and how they are written can tell much or little . |
| 4 | A manor , it now seems unnecessary to reiterate , might be worth much or little , depending on a combination of factors : the size of the demensne and the efficiency of its management , whether the customary fines were certain or arbitrary , and if the latter , the vigour with which they were exploited . |
| 5 | Dillon LJ doubted the distinction between the two sorts of decisions : " Even speaking valuations may say much or little ; they may be voluble or taciturn if not wholly dumb . " |
| 6 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 7 | Another 36% liked it quite a lot , but almost as many men enjoyed it only a little , not very much or not at all ( 7% of our sample say they ca n't remember how they felt ) . |
| 8 | A number of them ended as proof-readers earning as much or almost as much as men . |
| 9 | We shall see how much or how little of local nuances it succeeded in conveying to the top authorities . |
| 10 | As Bourn did not boast an anemometer we had to quickly learn wind speed by other means , such as how much or how little the trees were bending in the wind and whether the distant windsock was at full stretch or hanging limply from its staff . |
| 11 | I did n't enjoy it , but for me there was one advantage : there were no regular meals , and so no one noticed how much or how little anyone else ate . |
| 12 | We should like to know how much of this kind of thing was discussed openly on the Pnyx by the Assembly , and how much or how little communication between generals was centrally re-routed from the strategeion , the generals ' office , in the agora . |
| 13 | Left alone , Charlotte walked slowly down the length of the room , debating with herself how much or how little Holly McKitrick might know . |
| 14 | It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses . |
| 15 | So it 's your choice as to how much or how little you write down . |
| 16 | He had intended to sweep aside any reservations Kingdom might have about revealing a patient 's secrets by pointing out the overriding importance of finding Heather , but , instead , he had become meek and subdued , as if content to accept Kingdom 's judgement unreservedly on how much or how little he could divulge . |
| 17 | He 'd lied about so much else , and it was quite clear now why he 'd wanted to know so much about Ryan , where he was , what he 'd done ; he 'd wanted to know how much or how little Ryan had told her so that he did n't make the same mistakes . |
| 18 | Privately police officers have told us , decisions on cautioning can depend on how much or how little faith they have in the courts to pass adequate sentences , and on how much paper work is required for a prosecution . |
| 19 | How much or how little storage do you need ? |
| 20 | They spend half their lives underground in darkness or near-darkness and touch , smell and hearing convey as much or more to them than sight . |
| 21 | Other animals often depend as much or more on different senses , and allocate much less of their brain to sight . |
| 22 | In any event , we have stressed that the perceptions relate as much or more to the informal context within which teachers and advisory staff work as to formal procedures . |
| 23 | Many of the drinkers questioned felt cheated that they were paying as much or more for nablab products while the brewers paid far less duty ( and practically nothing on alcohol-free products ) than on their normal brews . |
| 24 | Often a solicitor will know as much or more about the history of local land as anyone . |
| 25 | of manufacturers expecting to spend as much or more on training in the next 12 months . |
| 26 | No , I think the thing is , is once you , this is gon na sound awful , but once you 've done your time and you know as much or more , then you 're E O then you 're gon na be left alone to get on with your job . |
| 27 | Writing letters about yourself is never easy — we tend either to say too much or too little . |
| 28 | too much or too little work |
| 29 | At any time you can take too much or too little of something and die . |
| 30 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |