Example sentences of "[adv] much well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The model fits variations in US fertility trends reasonably well , although not necessarily much better than conventional economic variables ( D. P. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 4 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 5 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |
| 6 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
| 7 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |
| 8 | Although a number of schools offer good healthy food , some school meals are often fatty , sugary and low in fibre — sometimes not much better than the food children eat at home . |
| 9 | The letters , since this , had had to be collected from the boatyard office , and Laura felt that this made it not much better than living abroad . |
| 10 | Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale . |
| 11 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 12 | The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do . |
| 13 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 14 | Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel . |
| 15 | ‘ But if they ca n't be shifted , there 'll never be room for you , no matter how much better than them you may be at the job . ’ |
| 16 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |