Example sentences of "much [adv] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much less embarrassing than a kissogram the perfect fantasy served up on a plate . |
| 2 | This is much less subtle than the characterization of strategy given in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice , and is consistent with a simplification of the concept of the object . |
| 3 | As both W. G. Hoskins and W. E. Tate have shown , the English village as we know it is in its essentials a product of developments not much less recent than the growth of industrial towns and cities . |
| 4 | Litter from battery hen farms is unsuitable for the plants and though turkey litter was tried last Christmas it proved much less successful than the chicken fuel . |
| 5 | The structure illustrated in ( c ) , where the agent is specified in a passive clause , is much less frequent than the structure illustrated in ( b ) , where the agent is left unspecified . |
| 6 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 7 | Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype . |
| 8 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 9 | She writes : ‘ The continued running of such a business is much less satisfying than the creation and setting up of it ’ , so now that it is sold her next challenge is the restoration of an ‘ old Montgomeryshire half-timbered gentleman 's residence and its apothecary 's herb-garden , dating from 1720 … |
| 10 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 11 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 12 | Well the upstairs one 's certainly much much better than the downstairs one . |
| 13 | It was so much more congenial than the flat near Victoria — unsuitably dominated by Westminster Cathedral — where she had lived with her mother . |
| 14 | Choose a task requiring a variety of skills and experience , not those of an expert ( often an expert alone is much more competent than a group ) . |
| 15 | They believe that the role of the community educator is much more limited than the rhetoric often implies . |
| 16 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |
| 17 | In particular , stresses set up in such samples can be relieved in all directions whereas stresses in bedrock are much more concentrated since the rock is confined both laterally and vertically . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's so much more real than a gas boiler . |
| 19 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 20 | This final requirement makes it far re difficult to keep the list up to date but experience shown that a personalised approach is much more successful than a plain " to the industrial correspondent " . |
| 21 | The chamois , another mountain specialist , is much lighter and consequently much more agile than the mountain goat . |
| 22 | [ But ] the general picture of community care presented by this evidence on the fate of short stay patients following the closure of long stay hospitals is much more disquieting than the evidence on the planned discharge of long stay patients . |
| 23 | As seen in Chapter Six , both of these schemes cut serious injuries by a half , much more impressive than a reduction of one tenth in all injuries . |
| 24 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 25 | The air force 's reserves seem much more efficient than the army 's or the navy 's . |
| 26 | If the first state among siblings always leads to a goal , it will be much more efficient than the breadth first version ; but otherwise it may be worse . |
| 27 | Watt realised that the engine would be much more efficient if the cylinder were to be at boiler temperature when the steam entered , but of course it was cool from the previous condensation . |
| 28 | None the less they do seem to confirm our general findings that while television was much more informative than the press , it was much less persuasive — and intentionally so ! |
| 29 | Hm. 's furniture is very much more practical than a lot of the traditional stuff that 's sold in the shops at vast expense is n't it ? |
| 30 | The mind is much more powerful than the aroma of an essential oil . |