Example sentences of "[is] [verb] much [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 2 | If members of the public generally or of a section of the public share an interest which has been interfered with by government action , the protection of that interest by court action is made much easier if one person can bring an action as representative of a large number of people . |
| 3 | My personal preference and practice — but it has to be supported by very fertile conditions — is to prune much harder than many think that a rose can stand ( remember , do n't be afraid of the knife , to three or four buds as necessary to find the outward pointing direction from the previous years prune . |
| 4 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 5 | The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average . |
| 6 | Moreover , the overhang of unsold properties is evaporating much faster than expected . |
| 7 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |