Example sentences of "much [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 2 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |
| 3 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 4 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 5 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 6 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 7 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 8 | In good old Blighty , however , we knew a big story when we saw one , and they do n't get much bigger than the size of the Universe . |
| 9 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 10 | The kitchen door was much younger than the cottage with two frosted glass panels in the top half . |
| 11 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 12 | He could see , moreover , that the Galapagos were much younger than the continent around which he had been travelling . |
| 13 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 14 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 15 | Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom , we can not hope to " look " at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way . |
| 16 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 17 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 18 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 19 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 20 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 21 | So I would n't like to see any property developers take it , the club on because I think they 'd be purely after the ground , I , I 'd feel much better if the consortium with Ray at the head took it over because they are genuinely interested in Walsall and the Walsall people . |
| 22 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 23 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 24 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 25 | Given the common values of E and p in structural solids we find that the speed of sound in these substances is very high indeed : for steel , aluminium and glass it is about 11,000 miles an hour or 4,800 metres per second , which is much faster than the speed of sound in air . |
| 26 | Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century . |
| 27 | He 's really nice — much older than the rest of us . |
| 28 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 29 | The last part is definitely much weaker than the rest of the book . |
| 30 | Knowledge embodied in specific products is often too use-specific to spill over , development costs are often extremely large relative to the costs of basic research , and competitive feedback from output markets to research decisions is much weaker than the feedback to development decisions ( not least because it is frequently unclear which output markets a piece of new information is likely to affect ) . |