Example sentences of "[adv] much [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Turkish occupation , or anything that has happened since , explain why Greeks so much prefer to earn their living in the little , man-to-man operations of the service sector ? |
| 2 | But so much seemed to have changed … and Joe would make a much better ally than an enemy , if only he could accept the situation as it stood . |
| 3 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 4 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 5 | But they so much want to help themselves . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I so much want to try again . |
| 7 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 8 | Not now , not when there was so much left to discover . |
| 9 | It is not much help to blame transaction costs for every market failure , as if that makes the failure somehow all right . |
| 10 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 11 | I am not much given to anger , but there is something indecent about these raw pink naïveties . |
| 12 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 13 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 14 | Now that the $30 million project is completed , however , visitors will find not much seems to have changed at all . |
| 15 | Yet if newspapers are anything to go by , not much seems to have happened since the list was announced . ’ |
| 16 | I 've always much preferred to sell it to friends . |
| 17 | There is still much work to do at Kozloduy before the world can relax , and a long term commitment is required . |
| 18 | Indeed , my lord , it is plain that the people are as much determined to reject the posterity of our late king that , if Your Grace will not accept the crown , they must turn their eyes on some other person ’ . ' |
| 19 | So long as the boy was alive and had a chance of survival he was as much entitled to retain that chance as the others ; whereas in our problem it may be that the men who are cut away have no chance of survival at all . |
| 20 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 21 | Jarvis did n't much want to do any of these things , but he did want to go up north and admire the old Glasgow PIE , not to mention going back to ride once more San Francisco 's BART , which tunnels deeply through the rock under the Bay . |
| 22 | I did n't much want to share anything with a grossly fat man wearing nothing but one of the lately fashionable cherub costumes — consisting solely of two small white wings glued to his blubbery back . |
| 23 | ’ I do n't much want to get anywhere , ’ I mumbled . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't know her then , ’ he said , repressively , uneasily conscious that he had given Francesca no thought at all that day and did n't much want to think about her now . |
| 25 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
| 26 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 27 | Outwardly much appeared to remain the same . |
| 28 | She was drawn unquestionably to the appearance of things , though she was aware that she had as yet much ground to cover , and that she had followed many a false trail ; she remembered with particular regret the quantities of eyeshadow which she had once thought desirable , and the pendant earrings of the same epoch . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd too much pride to do anything else . |
| 30 | ‘ I hope you 're not in too much hurry to get home , ’ said Mrs Wright . |