Example sentences of "much [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such devotion is to be admired , no matter how much facial hair you have to keep you warm . |
| 2 | Language has too much inherent ambiguity to enable solely bottom-up processing . |
| 3 | I could n't be certain how much painkilling medication she had taken , but it was almost certainly not enough . |
| 4 | No more than a couple of good songs and much sub-Jagger ligging and leering with the Rats ; Do They Know It 's Christmas ? ; a mediocre first solo album ; and there the list peters out . |
| 5 | Many of the more readily available forms of medication treat the symptom and , of course , much short-term relief can be obtained in this way . |
| 6 | Carol Heiz , professor at the Université de Nanterre and specialist in Carolingian architecture , has compared the situation with the unsupervised work carried out at Poitiers twelve years ago which destroyed the traces of much Gallo-Roman material . |
| 7 | Too much bloody mess . |
| 8 | Got so much bloody money in here again , I ca |
| 9 | Too much bloody hassle . |
| 10 | ‘ Listen to that Amy , that Jerry plane that crashed in the park did n't make as much bloody row as 'im . ’ |
| 11 | And if it 's meant to be a surprise attack , why are they making so much bloody noise ? ’ |
| 12 | So , erm , I 'm going to the toilet now , and then we 'll drive to college , because we 've got so much bloody washing , it 's not all going to principle French college , and erm , you |
| 13 | Too much bloody risk . |
| 14 | Police work involves so much bloody paperwork these days and a lot of boring stuff that a family row can quite spice up a night . |
| 15 | And you get twice as much bloody soot ! |
| 16 | And you get twice as much bloody soot ! |
| 17 | He had so much bloody power and he goes and shoots himself . |
| 18 | How much bloody time do you want ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've wasted too much bloody time today as it is . |
| 20 | Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there ! |
| 21 | In the fifth century , the complex business of running an empire threw up the ‘ demagogues ’ , to us a word of political disparagement but not much specific content . |
| 22 | So much solid evidence and no research carried out whatever . |
| 23 | The disabled people 's movement has already done much solid work in redefining disability and in creating the basis of a new hegemony of ideas which rests on direct experience of the problems we face in our daily lives . |
| 24 | First , there may be a more or less continuous emission of steam and other vapours , not carrying much solid material , which forms a white column rather like the plume above a power-station cooling tower . |
| 25 | Indeed the Faculty encourages interdisciplinary activity and recognises that much innovative work has derived from the intellectual stimulus of multidisciplinary study . |
| 26 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 27 | Thus hard work , education and moral tutelage are some of the guiding principles behind parent-child relationships , and much parental ingenuity and anxiety is expended in finding opportunities to introduce or reinforce these messages . |
| 28 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 29 | Doran says ‘ We have n't much technical expertise in the area of Windows and we 're wary of being too invasive of its code . |
| 30 | Doran says ‘ We have n't much technical expertise in the area of Windows and we 're wary of being too invasive of its code . |