Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] much [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah well more or less much the same as it is today . |
| 2 | I hope therefore that however much the cards seem to be stacked against us , feminists will keep on about language . |
| 3 | Blyth was historically a separate place from Tyneside , although very much a part of the North East Coast . |
| 4 | Although very much a townsman , Eliot was , like G. K. Chesterton , a great advocate of country life , and he shared the attitude of many townsmen that most other people ought to live in the country . |
| 5 | ‘ Our punters , although very much the suit and tie brigade , do like a good pint . |
| 6 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 7 | In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity . |
| 8 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 9 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 10 | ‘ And so much the better . |
| 11 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 12 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 13 | One consequence of the blaze in St Pierre was that it is difficult now to diagnose how much of the damage was a direct result of the nuee ardente , and how much a result of the fires it started . |
| 14 | The medieval warrior was what some today would call a drone : however necessary his protection might be or might seem to his peasant tenants and neighbours , and however much the enterprise of individual warriors may have fertilized the economy , he was not personally engaged in making a livelihood for himself and his family . |
| 15 | Gloucestershire will go into 1990 , hoping for improved results on the field , with a new resolve — and very much a new look . |
| 16 | Inputs , such as , for example , a ‘ corporate capability' , are often common to more than one offering , and very much a management concern . |
| 17 | He 's a good boy , and very much a boy . |
| 18 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |
| 19 | Drucker outlines the variety of innovative activity , arguing that ‘ innovation is work rather than genius ’ and very much a matter of discipline . |
| 20 | Recalling going into Kyle , while I was at Stromefirry-nofirry , and remembering that nightmare vision of the burned-black man after the blevey — Sir Rufus with his black bones , black nails , black wood and his black jaw hinged back and very much a dental-records job — and thinking , How did they identify Andy ? |
| 21 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 22 | He was a very earnest , very intelligent gentleman — and very much a gentleman , whom I never thought of as particularly ambitious . |
| 23 | Sun and salt water are equally drying and a combination of all three can prove harmful to your hair leaving it looking dull and frizzy and very much the worse-for-wear . |
| 24 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 25 | Whilst he was a commanding personality and very much the ‘ chief ’ in his department he consulted closely with and was advised by his engineers before taking technical decisions . |
| 26 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 27 | This is Chaplin 's third collaboration with Live Theatre and director Max Roberts , and very much the weakest . |
| 28 | I quite agree with Mackie that colour presents itself as being as much part of the fabric of the world as , say , shape and that much the same is true of value , and also agree that they seem therefore initially intelligible as being there in a manner not intrinsically bound up with our responses to them . |
| 29 | But so much the better ; not every 80-year-old survives an entirely new experience so succesfully . |
| 30 | It was hard lying , but so much the better , he would be in no danger of falling asleep . |