Example sentences of "[be] [adv] much a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | motorcycle side-cars were very much a luxury trade you see . |
| 2 | Your study may be a historical one , but it in fact , this is very much a political movement , is n't it ? |
| 3 | Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule . |
| 4 | Erm , paragraph four , I er , refers to the fact that this is very much a joint process . |
| 5 | Now this is very much a voluntary activity on the part of those who give the lectures , but neverthless we have an extremely large list , right across the science area , of lecture titles and lecturers , people who are prepared to go out and do this in schools , and of course they get an opportunity to meet teachers and students in schools in this way . |
| 6 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 7 | So we actually choose to be wherever we want to be , it 's very much a personal choice . |
| 8 | Now we 've got very much a personal perspective and we see things through our own eyes so somebody may see somebody behaving and regard that as an assertive behaviour , somebody else may actually see that as aggressive it 's very much a personal view of actually where we see the people lying and also indeed the people who prefer to deal with them . |
| 9 | And it 's very much a two way thing . |
| 10 | But I mean , how how often does that happen anyway ? is that I presume that 's very much a last resort . |
| 11 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 12 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 13 | to have erm , oh I 've forgotten what the terms are now anyway , yes , it was very much a Thatcherite family view |
| 14 | Well after the , the aircraft had actually er left the airport to go , be handed back to the RAF they said sometimes had to be serviced or final adjustments made and that 's what they used to go out there for but erm Helliwells was ver it was still , all through the war it was Helliwells aircraft they used to have their own lorries and everything and they used to erm , be under the auspices of the Air Ministry but it was very much a private company . |
| 15 | Which was very much a local affair . |
| 16 | No , no it was very much a green field area , and I think if they 'd have wanted to get bomb anywhere they 'd have been directed at Castle Bromwich , which were very much they were building Lancasters and Sterlings and they were very much the heart of the British bomber industry . |
| 17 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |