Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he 's right not to attach too much importance to the Bible and to fixed ideas . |
| 2 | Having previously discussed it with John , I declined to join them on their expedition to the temples at P. as I feel it is important to them both to have time alone with each other , especially as is at the moment a bit jealous of the twin at school here ( though of course he , chose to opt out of Gordonstoun ) and has anyway not spent as much time with John in recent years as no 2 ! has . |
| 3 | In practice , under threat of dismissal or of heavy fines , or even of just not making so much money as they might , many dealers succumb to the temptation of exaggerating short-term prospects . |
| 4 | I live in Southend and I have genuinely never seen so much hardship and depression before . |
| 5 | They would probably not bring very much bear meat at all , because Lugh was not especially partial to bear meat , but it would have looked odd to say this . |
| 6 | It was certainly a day for surprises , because Froggy had probably never seen so much cash in one lump , let alone earned it . |
| 7 | This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years . |
| 8 | by simply not putting so much emphasis on increasing ROI |
| 9 | For just as the latter are then not receiving as much employment as they would normally like at the prevailing real wage rate , so the former are not providing as much as they would normally like . |
| 10 | If that saturated air is cooled , for example by coming into contact with a surface such as a window pane on a chilly day , it can no longer hold so much moisture as vapour ; the effect is the same as squeezing out your bath sponge . |
| 11 | The house itself no longer held so much terror for her . |
| 12 | One of the great problems for the future is that rich countries are developing so many synthetic alternatives that they no longer have so much need of raw materials . |
| 13 | So the myth has it that Ms or Mr Trim very carefully calculates how much food ( or how many calories ) to forgo in order to afford an occasional large meal ( on holiday or at Christmas for example ) . |
| 14 | He had been truly godforsaken today , he was thinking as he sank ; he had never before done so much violence to anyone . |
| 15 | Never before has so much technology been devoted to getting things wrong with such instantaneous precision . |
| 16 | not a chance , he , he never even earned that much money in all his , no but I mean having , having had the income tax done that to you however ridiculous that it is you 've got to do something about it |