Example sentences of "[adv] much [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this stillness she recalled how once she had so much loved sleep , half sleep , lying with Jack beside her , relaxing into sleep . |
| 2 | I did n't so much take cover in the underbrush , I collided with it . |
| 3 | With him art does not so much represent nature as human nature creates through art . |
| 4 | Like bringing in much needed humour ( Gordon Houghton ) , setting the mag back on track ( Stuart , after Gordon and Co left abruptly ) but not until now have I felt compelled to write to you . |
| 5 | Fund raising began in earnest and a shares offer was also launched bringing in much needed cash to help with the loco purchase . |
| 6 | The Christmas Crib appeal brings in much needed revenue for the work of the society , and Father Gannon asked for the continued support of clergy , schools and people of the diocese . |
| 7 | Voluntary organisations are anxious to ensure the huge prizes do not draw away much needed cash from their work . |
| 8 | In historically accurate terms these settled states had ceased to be colonies fourteen years before Howard 's death , but that probably did not much matter south and west of the Red River which forms the north-east boundary of what was then known as Tejas , or Tehas . |
| 9 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 10 | As announced on March 10 two shipyards in the Rostock area were to be sold to the Norwegian firm Kvaerner and one in Wismar to the German concern Bremer Vulkan ; the already much reduced workforce of 10,300 at these yards would be cut to 7,000 . |
| 11 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 12 | Never mind , say market optimists : the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground . |
| 13 | The Gulf crisis , though not formally on the agenda , took up much debating time . |
| 14 | If we speak of control , we are speaking of empowerment , a now much abused word , but one which still conveys the sense of movement from situations of experienced powerlessness , both individual and collective , to one where people acquire some measure of determination in the course of events and policies . |
| 15 | ( Viscount Milton caused a considerable rumpus when he razed a small market town to the ground and rebuilt the now much admired model village of Milton Abbas . |
| 16 | The system will allow as much devolved responsibility as is compatible with the maintenance of consistent standards across centres and over time . |
| 17 | You need at least as much space disk capacity as there is RAM to save . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , when individuals such as product champions get it wrong the almost inevitable consequence is bankruptcy , or at least much reduced profitability , with other possibly longer-term consequences . |
| 19 | No matter how much Norse manure you splatter on to them , they 've a habit of coming up smelling of roses . |
| 20 | • assess how much assess control is needed |
| 21 | We have pretty much shared responsibility in looking after the house — though they 'd probably argue that I do naff all ! |
| 22 | The average person , irrespective of weight , has too much refined sugar in their food . |
| 23 | Today , many unfortunate people have too much enforced leisure , when they would actually prefer to be occupied . |
| 24 | In 1944 the Labour Party , in sharp contrast to its statements at the end of the First World War , declared : ‘ It is better to have too much armed force than too little . ’ |
| 25 | Some of the most gratifying comments referred to Nigel — such as , ‘ How you achieved that much wished objective said as much about your late husband as it did about you . |
| 26 | The facts that much farmed land falls short of its potential and that in large areas of Africa population levels are low , do not alter the fact that innovators in the tradition of Chipimbi continue to succeed in achieving important increases in productivity . |
| 27 | In the 1950s , the novelist and writer Stephen Mpashi , a man who very much represented success in the new social order , composed a popular song expressing this conflict . |
| 28 | It is obviously sensible , given your knowledge of the sector , to utilise you [ and your in house experts ] in the search process and we will very much welcome feedback from you at every stage of the search process . |
| 29 | Mr Connolly said he had written to Mr Clarke saying he very much hoped Labour 's commitment to the retention of water services under local government control extended to returning those services to councils ‘ in the unhappy event of any form of privatisation or transfer to some hybrid organisation ’ . |
| 30 | It very much involves participation and therefore the appeal for the broader level in terms of the public is less important for those groups that actually participate . |