Example sentences of "much [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who knows how much that total could be by the year 2000 . ’ |
| 2 | It 's surprising just how much that interest can be worth to you over the full period of your course . |
| 3 | The quantity maxim is violated in both directions : creating prolixity if we say too much and terseness if we are too brief . |
| 4 | Without order , the system does not continue to exist , but spend too much and accumulation breaks down . |
| 5 | She did n't earn much and dinner was usually a bowl of soup and a cold platter at the small restaurant next door to the Goldener Adler . |
| 6 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 7 | He 's lost the use of his legs and does n't get about much but Uncle went to see him two or three times a week . ’ |
| 8 | I 've not eaten much but chocolate ! |
| 9 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 10 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 11 | Mr. Ian Hunter , Secretary General of the Association of Optometrists , wrote in reply to the Minister 's letter : ’ To restart national health service eye examinations for the over 60s would now cost about £25 million but the cost for not doing so will be two or three times as much because eye disease will remain undetected until treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't laughed so much since Grandma caught her tits in the mangle , ’ was the verdict of them all . |
| 13 | This is a view shared by the Educational Publishers ' Council which claims that independent schools spend twice as much as state schools on books and equipment per pupil . |
| 14 | Taxes were to be uniformly imposed , whereas previously the self-employed paid up to three times as much as state employees . |
| 15 | In other words , it 's a question of attitude as much as location . |
| 16 | Comics distort reality just as much as soap operas , and may be open to all sorts of subversive design . |
| 17 | Fokine 's advice to those wishing to create the romantic style of dance was much as fur demi-caractère when he said : ‘ The choreographer should base his design on classical technique from the feet to the waist , but above that the dancer 's head , body and arms must be free to express the moods , emotions and actions of the character in the story or theme to be communicated . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She would never have to lift a hand to do an ounce of work — not as much as wash a cup . |
| 19 | Has n't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap ? |
| 20 | Yet , as much as reversion to primitivism , so settling back into childhood enjoyment and innocence was undesirable to Eliot . |
| 21 | It is a matter of politics as much as education whether they grasp the flow of history and understand how events flow into one another . |
| 22 | A new theoretical formulation or a new analogy can be immensely important in furthering knowledge ; certainly just as much as can finding out a new fact . |
| 23 | Not , erm , not in the sense that there are in manufacturing because erm , simply from the fact that , in the scale of production , is n't really erm it 's not under the farmer 's influence as much as manufacturing production is under the erm , certain enterprise 's influence , because it 's er , risky |
| 24 | Kisses afterwards from her parents , her coach Ian Robinson and her manager Ian Mackenzie contained relief as much as celebration . |
| 25 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 26 | This , as practised by ordinary mortals rather than professional scribes , can cover everything from neatness to wild illegibility — much as handwriting does today among our nearest and dearest . |
| 27 | When confronted with the excesses of the anti-French mobs in 1808 it was almost natural that such men , with fear as much as hope in their hearts , should become supporters of French rule . |
| 28 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 29 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 30 | Mature leaves of pioneers were attacked six times as much as canopy species . |