Example sentences of "[adv] much [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but that you know that that did n't carry on much more than a few days after the the initial disturbances . |
| 2 | Such ‘ elastic ’ connection lines make drawing box charts such as flow diagrams , hierarchy charts , PERT diagrams etc. much easier than using a normal drawing package . |
| 3 | Challenger 's 12 independent hydrogas units allow the wheels to travel up and down much further than with Chieftain 's bogie -type suspension , thus greatly reducing the accelerations that the vehicle itself undergoes . |
| 4 | We were down , we were down much further and the hospital was that opposite the park , like , is it the park or something ? |
| 5 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 6 | Both she and Lubor had a glass of beer to go with it , and , having not been hungry , the meal went down much better than Fabia had anticipated . |
| 7 | The model fits variations in US fertility trends reasonably well , although not necessarily much better than conventional economic variables ( D. P. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 8 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 9 | If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’ |
| 10 | She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway . |
| 11 | There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard . |
| 12 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 13 | I love dressmaking but ca n't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis . |
| 14 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 15 | some of the most successful of the small indies have achieved success largely by catering for specialist markets ( generally ignored by the majors ) and developing a good reputation for its product with the fans of particular styles , so much so that some indie labels enjoy instant sales of a new release on the strength of the quality of their past product . |
| 16 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 17 | Similar changes in attitude have been in evidence throughout the training of these recruits , so much so that the unenlightened diehard points indignantly to an apparent decline in discipline and general standard . |
| 18 | However , it turned out to be a very relaxed meeting , so much so that when the private session was over and the press were invited in to take photographs , the Prince said to the Pope , ‘ Let me introduce you to my press corps . ’ |
| 19 | Suddenly , great guffaws of laughter that went on and on broke the silence , so much so that people began to stretch forward to see who they were coming from . |
| 20 | So much so that they are seen as ‘ natural . ’ |
| 21 | Hatred and fear of women is not new and is overt in religions , so much so that the evolvement of codes of courtesy to the female has been felicitous . |
| 22 | During the 1980s these quasi-government agencies became a convenient means of off-balance-sheet financing ; so much so that they have now amassed nearly $1 trillion-worth of obligations underwritten by the American taxpayer . |
| 23 | Observation and experiment in order to discover the properties of things in the material world is a worthwhile activity ; so much so that Locke sometimes honours its results with the more dignified term ‘ experimental knowledge ’ . |
| 24 | She was a devout appeaser , totally apathetic about world politics , but quite positive about Charles Willoughby ; so much so that she 'd allowed him to move into her flat in the enormous new block facing south across the river to the huge but fairly new Battersea Power Station . |
| 25 | So much so that at one point she was actually investigated by the Inquisition — in its mildest form — who were however unable to discipline or control her life . |
| 26 | ’ Natural Thing ’ does sample Pink Floyd , so much so that one D. Gilmour shares the writing credit . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 28 | So much so that supporters now have three distinct types , with inevitable gradations in between . |
| 29 | ( So much so that when , at the 1989 party conference , a delegate got up to speak in defence of Sunday as a day of worship , he was met with a chorus of boos from shopkeepers on the floor . ) |
| 30 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |